Example sentences of "came in [prep] the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could relive it every time I came in through the front door . |
| 2 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 6 | Her father came in through the back door . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Lyn switched off the set as Stephen came in at the back door . |
| 9 | It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door . |