Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] the front " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nellie asked at the front door . |
| 2 | There was nothing to support it , no face at a window , no movement of a curtain , but when Mr Hollins knocked on the front door it opened immediately . |
| 3 | Leonora Buckmaster came to the front doorway as the Daimler pulled up . |
| 4 | Willis came to the front door dressed only in a pair of trousers . |
| 5 | Tom knocked at the front door but there was no reply . |
| 6 | Johann slept near the front door of the new castle with five other men — but they had no guns . |
| 7 | They ran back to the house and Endill waited at the front door while his mother went to see who or what it was . |
| 8 | Blanche tumbled through the front door of her flat just after eleven o'clock . |
| 9 | Mossop , faithful both to preference and history , remained in the car whilst Harry walked up the front path , trying to ignore the ravenous alsatian growling and tearing at the neighbour 's fence . |
| 10 | Geoffrey reclined in the front seat , put his famous Panama hat over his eyes , his feet on the dashboard , and said : ‘ Wake me up at the hotel . ’ |
| 11 | Rose sat in the front seat . |
| 12 | Theodora moved to the front hall and opened the door . |
| 13 | Menzies gestured towards the front door and went through to draw the bolt . |
| 14 | Irina climbed into the front passenger seat . |
| 15 | A little later , Derek knocked at the front door . |
| 16 | Jack went to the front window of the lounge and looked out between the net curtaining . |
| 17 | But there was no reply , and when Belinda turned from the front passenger seat to look at the artist stretched out in the back , she saw that Faye had the back of her hand pressed against her mouth to stifle her sobs . |
| 18 | Lizzy walked into the front room and through to the kitchen where she began to make herself a cup of coffee as if nothing had happened . |
| 19 | One of these was Doctor Jekyll 's house , and Mr Utterson knocked at the front door . |
| 20 | Kate went into the front room . |
| 21 | Lewis stood on the front lawn , looking up at the bedroom windows . |
| 22 | Tuppe sat in the front passenger seat brrrming the toy car up and down the dashboard . |
| 23 | Bragg banged on the front door . |
| 24 | Yanto walked through the front porch of the pub and on into the flagstoned lobby . |
| 25 | Diana dashed to the front door wearing the kind of understated clothes appropriate for meeting women who are practically penniless — an ordinary black blazer over a plain white top and a black and white striped skirt . |
| 26 | Nicholas went to the front window . |
| 27 | Duncan and Myeloski sat in the front half of the plane . |
| 28 | As Henry got through the front gate , number 60 went back up the street towards his wife and number 47 dropped , suddenly and dramatically , on to his knees in front of the red Mitsubishi . |
| 29 | Lucien walked to the front edge of the roof again , looked down into the street . |
| 30 | Several times Moran went to the front door to look towards the road . |