Example sentences of "[adv prt] by the back [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing her husband , she set it down by the back door and came across to the stable . |
| 2 | They claimed that mid-week polls showing a large Labour lead had shocked some floating voters into the realisation that opting for the Liberal Democrats would let Mr Kinnock in by the back door . |
| 3 | ‘ Good morning , Mrs Wooldridge , ’ said Mrs Deacon , letting her in by the back door . |
| 4 | In truth , Cabernet is beginning to creep in by the back door . |
| 5 | Going in by the back door |
| 6 | He would look in the summer-house before coming in by the back door but he seldom found me there now . |
| 7 | ‘ I just came home , let myself in by the back door and went straight to bed . ’ |
| 8 | If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | If Knowledge plc had failed to get in by the back door , it was this that brought the ideology of the market-place marching in the front . |
| 11 | She was allowed in by the back door . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Nowhere near enough , they 're trying to get us to sell it off by the back door and we will resist that . |
| 14 | Although John Wright had been due to send Hanns a letter about the technical requirements , it was actually the choreographer who wrote again in late September , suggesting simplification to avoid distracting the eye and adding ‘ You must design several feet around the back cloth , otherwise what you have designed will be cut off by the back legs and flies ’ . |
| 15 | Then there 's a water butt up by the back door ; and some honeysuckle growing over the porch . |
| 16 | Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor , in a drab overcoat , let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle , keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In the little hall , Francis put on a waterproof coat and cap and they went out by the back door . |