• The men knocked on the door of a house in Stourhead Gate, Westcroft, on Thursday night, and forced their way in when it was answered.

    BBC: Milton Keynes burglars push man out of window of house

  • These days there is a gold-standard tick-list: a house behind a gate (Belgravia for Italians, Chelsea for Russians), a Gerhard Richter for the wall, the kids in one of a handful of schools, the right portfolio of charities, a place in the country not too far from London.

    ECONOMIST: Assimilating plutocrats

  • He was shot while guarding the main gate of a house in Khao Killay village in Mardan district as a worker administered the vaccine inside.

    BBC: Pakistan 'policeman killed' guarding anti-polio worker

  • The little convoy pulled up to the gate of a house.

    CNN: Local diplomacy wins in tense Syria prisoner exchange

  • He picked up a rotting banana skin and hung it on the leaves of a neem tree that grew near the gate of the house, so that it would startle the owners when they came out.

    NEWYORKER: The Elephant

  • She fled to an aunt's house, but they broke through the gate, so she escaped to the mountains nearby, where she hid under a bed in the house of a friend.

    ECONOMIST: The one-child policy

  • North of Greensboro, the peaked Music Man House is set behind a wild gate made from found materials quilted together with wire.

    WSJ: Visiting Rural Studio's Modern Architecture in Alabama

  • If you enter the Jardin des Plantes through the gate nearest to my house you will see a statue overlooking the garden that honours - according to the inscription on the plinthe - the founder of the theory of evolution.

    BBC: Part Three - France and the World

  • Visitors are admitted through an electric gate into a patio garden and then into the main house.

    WSJ: Striking Gold in the Backyard

  • Three SEALs in front broke off to clear the guesthouse as the remaining nine blasted through another gate and entered an inner courtyard, which faced the main house.

    NEWYORKER: Getting Bin Laden

  • This was my life, these were the times when I was true: in these half hours here and there when I felt alone in the house, or those fleeting moments out on the road, when I opened a gate and crossed an empty farmyard, a stranger, even to myself, in the quiet of the afternoon.

    NEWYORKER: The Cold Outside

  • He and his family left their house in the south Baghdad district of Dora two years ago after he found a note stuck to the front gate.

    NPR: Refugees Returning to Iraq Find Homes Occupied

  • When I come out of the house in the morning, the girls (and now Jesus, too) are waiting for me at the barnyard gate, wheezily braying for their cookies.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Dog Days'

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