Sentence examples for of a doorstep from inspiring English sources
We are different …" With Wonga, the borrower is saved the indignity of queuing at a high street store such as Money Shop or Cash Converters, or the intrusion of a doorstep lender calling at their home.
Avon and Somerset Constabulary A police constable whose grandmother was the victim of a doorstep "distraction burglary" has helped Avon and Somerset Constabulary to set up its Senior Citizen Liaison Team.
More importantly he knows the geology beneath his feet, and knows which stones – "malmstone, greensand, sandstone, chalk" – are soft enough to hold the impression of passing feet, for "like creases in the hand, or the wear on a stone sill of a doorstep or stair", holloways "are the result of repeated human actions.
WHEN Bob Dollar's parents abandon him at the age of 8 on a doorstep in Denver, he has arrived at the threshold of two things: his Uncle Tam's junk shop and Annie Proulx's fourth novel.
There are charming images – Bill Brandt's bemused shot of milk bottles on a doorstep – although they are as much about the artist's expectations as about Britain.
The arrival of John Prescott, Charles Clarke or Patricia Hewitt on a doorstep is unlikely to have floating voters rushing out to back Labour.
They may also question the politicians' motives.That seems an odd view, given the prominence of immigration as a doorstep issue.
Yet one book, a surprisingly short one, paints Leonardo as a genius, whereas the other, a doorstep of a volume, presents him uncut, looking something of a fallen angel.
My Home Finance, a social enterprise set up with state funding, charges an annual interest rate of 29.9 per cent on a £300 loan – a fraction of that imposed by a doorstep lender, which would charge about 270 per cent.
It's a doorstep of a book, making one quail at the thought of the rivers of ink that will be spilled when Obama has completed his presidency.
My tasty warm salad of olives, capers and mixed leaves lost something in the looks department too, being almost obscured by a doorstep of, admittedly good, cheese.
