Example sentences of "in [prep] [art] [adj] door [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had help getting in here , ’ Hari said quickly , ‘ I did n't get in through a bolted door on my own now , did I ? ’ |
| 2 | The last time that that young person went into secure accommodation in Middlesbrough , he went in through the front door at 3.30 pm , and at 5.30 pm he disappeared out the back door and stole a car to make his escape . |
| 3 | The first time she rang the bell and went in through the front doors of the elegant old house where the showrooms were situated ( Mattli had no rear entrance ) Paula felt she was stepping into the place of her dreams . |
| 4 | Scrambling to her feet , Ellie ran after the racing Terry , down the stairs , out the back door , across the grounds and in through the back door of the restaurant . |
| 5 | It is almost as if someone has allowed subsidiarity in through the back door of the Town Hall , but not announced its arrival to anyone . |
| 6 | At the Conservative Party conference in October 1988 Mrs Thatcher stated : ‘ We have n't worked all these years to free Britain from the paralysis of socialism only to see it creep in through the back door of central control and bureaucracy from Brussels ’ . |
| 7 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 8 | There was a layer of grey-blue smoke in the room at about shoulder level , and a big wave in it , probably produced by me as I came in through the double doors of the back porch . |
| 9 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 10 | Looking in through the open door of one , I saw a fat , drunk skinhead in a wheelchair . |
| 11 | Just as her words were out one of the charity women came chattering in through the open doors to the terrace . |
| 12 | While still leafing through the statements he turned to Sara : ‘ We have a witness who claims to have seen you in Alexandra Road after eleven on Saturday night , and you may know that a woman was seen going in by the back door of this house at half-past . ’ |
| 13 | It currently has a service within the Fire Service wh which costs a certain amount and we ca n't presume and I would , I suspect that Councillor is is actually trying to do is to get in by the back door for cut that we will then be forced to make the March March March Committee well I hope that members of this at this this this Committee would reject that er suggestion as it at the last meeting . |