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But you wouldn't leave the front door to your house unlocked either, would you?
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Floor plans also observed feng shui: Stairwells, for example, don't directly face the front door, for ideal energy-flow.
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Decades later, segregation still ruled America, and when Sports Illustrated invited Winkfield to a reception at the Brown Hotel in Louisville in 1961, he was told he couldn't enter by the front door.
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In just 19 words, it provides an impressive selection of current widespread writing woes: dangling modifier ("vestiges" didn't walk in the front door), poor word choice ("vestiges, " "domesticity, " "regardless"), excessive prepositions (four in all) and an underappreciated but pervasive ill, a weak sentence-subject ("vestiges").
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Sometimes he didn't even get in the front door.
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On the night she escaped, Ms. Berry told police that Mr. Castro had left the main front door open, but the storm door was locked and she couldn't get it open.
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We didn't expect, right outside our front door, that he would be taken.
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It wasn't until we returned to the front door with our bags that I realized I had locked us in.
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If you can't get your goods into China via the front door, there's always the back.
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The only thing that was showing was the vault door, and you probably had tons and tons of debris and rubble in front of the vault door, that we couldn't get out.
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