Example sentences of "[adv prt] of the back [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rushed down the corridor , through the kitchen , out of the back door to the shed and ran back with the barrow and the spade clattering on top . |
| 2 | During the next few days I lived in terror , doors locked , ready to fly — to leave through the front door if Aunt Louise came to the back , or out of the back door if I saw her coming down the path . |
| 3 | Contrast that with the Churchills , who repaired to Claridge 's in 1945 , and the Douglas-Homes , who slipped sheepishly out of the back door bound for Chequers . |
| 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 | She slipped off her apron and tripped out of the back door like an eighteen year old . |
| 6 | From Montrose , on 3 February 1716 , he wrote a final despairing appeal to the French regent seeking immediate help , but the following day he sneaked out of the back door of his house , just as his father had left Whitehall nearly 30 years before , taking Mar with him , having appointed a new Commander-in-Chief in Scotland , Lieutenant-General Alexander Gordon . |
| 7 | He smiled broadly and he turned from her , munching at the buttered scone , and as he walked out of the back door he heard the sound of a car coming on to the gravel in front of the house . |
| 8 | If the OCU does not reform then it will be a sad day , at the very least this unique RAF institution should have been allowed to ‘ go out ’ in style rather than simply vanish out of the back door . |
| 9 | I let myself into our corridor , soundlessly , and crept down the back stairs and out of the back door without hearing or seeing any member of the Home staff . |
| 10 | It seems that the Battler and Rico let fly at somebody who was coming out of the back door of the Regal Arms . |
| 11 | ‘ It is a country with opportunities , ’ said Steve : and off they went again , with their second-hand opinions , their echoes of overheard conversations , their phrases from advertisements and tabloid newspapers : and yet to Shirley there was perhaps something comfortable , despite all , something reassuring about the hands of cards , the button and matchstick money , the green baize of the table , the predictable , ancient jokes , the cigarette ends in the big red ashtray : there was safety here , of a sort , safety in repetition , safety in familiar faces and frustrations , and warmth of a sort , warmth and communion of a sort , society of a sort : the society she had discovered as a teenager , when she would slip surreptitiously out of the icy silence of Abercorn Avenue , where the clock ticked relentlessly on the kitchen wall , where Liz propped her textbooks against the Peek Frean biscuit tin on the kitchen table , where her mother sat in the front room listening to the radio , cutting up newspapers ; she would let herself quietly out of the back door and creep down the passage , past the outside lav , through the back gate , round the corner , and then she would run for it , along Hilldrop Crescent , down The Grove , up Brindleford Drive , and across the main road at the lights to Victoria Street , where Cliff and Steve and their sister Marge lived . |
| 12 | Danny raced out of the back door , yelling , ‘ Dad , Gran says tea 's nearly ready ! |
| 13 | Declining to lie , she let the priest take her home , planning to swear the maid to secrecy and slip out of the back door again as soon as he had gone . |
| 14 | But I 'm already running — not to the Roombed — out of the back door towards Bedfordshire . |
| 15 | When he was satisfied that everything was straight , he let himself out of the back door . |
| 16 | They glided out of the back door and leapt into a pit of shadow . |
| 17 | I got a taxi as soon as I stepped out of the back door . |
| 18 | And grabbing three of the smallest around their necks , he started pushing them out of the back door , into the fresh air , and towards the outer door of the boarding section . |
| 19 | She put four mince pies in a little basket she 'd decorated earlier when she made the other table decorations , put on her coat and was out of the back door in a flash . |
| 20 | About 30 passengers were allowed to leave or slipped out of the back door in Tallinn , leaving some 50 passengers and crew to continue the journey to Stockholm . |
| 21 | He only hoped that no one was watching him , as he almost ran down the unlit passage and out of the back door . |
| 22 | But it 's not easy I mean you know I was reading an article ages ago a few months ago actually and saying you know if you think about it the sort of revolution was over a year ago and still the government has n't done anything about it and I mean like a lot of provisions that have been brought into Romania sort of go in the front door and out of the back door and you know they sort of sent those of supplies like contraceptions and things like that for the women and overlap |
| 23 | The senders of the first six cards out of the back pocket on March 15 will be the winners . |
| 24 | Maria appeared out of the back room ; I glimpsed a large brass bed , more ikons , photographs . |
| 25 | More pilots ran out of the back room , aroused by the uproar , and joined in the fist-fight . |
| 26 | They had poured out of the back room in an interval of the singing and were fighting for the bar with empty glasses , when Mallachy dug Rory sharply in the side . |