Example sentences of "he [vb past] the front [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His tall house loomed over him as he unlocked the front door . |
| 2 | I told him that when he came up the ramp he must accelerate on the throttle at speed so that he got the front wheel up in the air , so he would n't nosedive and hurt himself . |
| 3 | He tried the front door . |
| 4 | He tried the front door . |
| 5 | On arriving at Hamilton Terrace he found the front door open . |
| 6 | He was only jolted out of his misery when he approached the front door leading to his much-maligned flat and , as he struggled to pull his keys out of his right pocket with his left hand , a voice spoke to him from the shadows of the front porch . |
| 7 | Maybe Nevil lived here , but if he did , why did n't he used the front door ? |
| 8 | A battered life-size carving of Kean as Shylock greeted Charles as he entered the front door . |
| 9 | He hauled the front door open so hard that when it hit the stop the stained-glass panel shattered . |
| 10 | He was the rising man in the party , only thirty-nine in 1911 when he joined the front bench , as brilliant an advocate as Carson and a man of devastating wit . |
| 11 | The smell , when he opened the front door , took him back half a century . |
| 12 | Carefully he opened the front door of his house , quietly he crossed the hall to the library and closed the door behind him . |
| 13 | John Glover , 53 , was jumped by seven men as he opened the front door of his home . |
| 14 | As she was getting out of the Metro he opened the front door . |
| 15 | Peter Redburn was n't altogether surprised when , at five o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday 17 December , he opened the front door of 29 Champney Road and found James Salperton on the doorstep . |
| 16 | He opened the front door and stood for a moment on the step looking at the glimmer of light touching the pale dome of the church and the glow of the city thrown up against the sky . |
| 17 | Then he opened the front door so that they could see where they were going , and flicked the bathroom light off . |
| 18 | As he opened the front door to his rooms , his shirt collar was slightly damp . |
| 19 | Leaning his bicycle against it , he detached the front lamp from its bracket and climbed over . |
| 20 | He heard the front door being closed and Tom returned with his brown paper bag . |
| 21 | He heard the front door being opened even as he unfolded the cloth and began to read . |
| 22 | He heard the front door open and braced himself , looking at his mother for support . |
| 23 | He locked the front door and up they went . |
| 24 | He pulled the front door open , and out he went . |
| 25 | He sighed as he rang the front doorbell . |
| 26 | He rang the front door bell . |
| 27 | And he took the front piece out of that magazine . |
| 28 | As he reached the front door he saw a strange sight . |
| 29 | By the time he reached the front door there were flames at a fourth window and he could hear an ominous crackling sound from inside the house . |
| 30 | He shut the front door on all the onlookers . |