Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 2 | If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed . |
| 3 | ‘ If you 'd be kind enough to come down to the front door , I 'll explain everything . ’ |
| 4 | Otherwise , it may be easier for the patient to come out of the back door and walk or be wheeled out through a side gate , if it is all on a level . |
| 5 | He came down to the front door with me . |
| 6 | I could relive it every time I came in through the front door . |
| 7 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 8 | He looked up when Donna Frizzell came in through the back door , and was startled to see that her hat was awry and her makeup smudged beyond repair . |
| 9 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 10 | Her father came in through the back door . |
| 11 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 12 | Lyn switched off the set as Stephen came in at the back door . |
| 13 | It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door . |
| 14 | It was only when they came out of the rearmost door and found a temporary hut facing them with Radio Room marked on the door , that they realised why they had n't found it the first time . |
| 15 | I came out of the front door and fitted the key into the familiar lock . |
| 16 | As she opened the gate , some people came out of the front door — an elderly couple with Susan behind them . |
| 17 | Peter drove slowly past the gates — the dignified gates through which most of his predecessors had stepped on their way to the church — and , as he did so , the new owner came out of the front door and clearly observed the dawdling and curious car . |
| 18 | She could see lights on inside and men moving about , and as she stood there a policeman in uniform came out of the front door . |
| 19 | On the Tuesday morning he was whistling as he came out of the front door . |
| 20 | He got off the Mini , he that went flying up street , she came out of the next door . |
| 21 | ‘ You came out of the main door ? ’ |
| 22 | She ran back through the kitchen and down the steps into the lower scullery , but when she came out by the back door and looked across to the wall , Tristram was not be seen . |
| 23 | Came out by the same Door as in I went |
| 24 | Theodora circled the house in the direction of the arrow and came round to the back door . |
| 25 | I thought we were going to have a visitor coming in through the back door . |
| 26 | There was a long silence and they lay absolutely still and grew cold together in the draught coming in under the closed door . |
| 27 | He would look in the summer-house before coming in by the back door but he seldom found me there now . |
| 28 | It seems that the Battler and Rico let fly at somebody who was coming out of the back door of the Regal Arms . |
| 29 | ‘ Make foreign things work for China ’ , ran one slogan but it recognised that ‘ flies and pests ’ would come in through the open door as well as fresh air to revitalise the stuffy atmosphere in China . |
| 30 | ‘ Did you see him come in through the back door ? ’ |