Example sentences of "[adv prt] through the back [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door . |
| 2 | Then , whilst resolutely throwing underconsumption out of the window he allows it to creep in through the back door again with his discursive discussion of the role of labour-power as a commodity and its place in the circulation process . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Hank drifted silently in through the back door and deposited a pile of school books on the kitchen table and a fair amount of snow on the kitchen floor from his moccasins . |
| 5 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 6 | So off we went out and we played our football , and I came back , and we were sneaking in through the back door and bumped right into him . |
| 7 | He used another of his plastic cards to let himself in through the back door . |
| 8 | ‘ Did you see him come in through the back door ? ’ |
| 9 | I remember hens , large grey ones , wandering in through the back door . |
| 10 | The next morning , without seeing any of the family , who were heaven knew where , she made herself some breakfast under the smiling gaze of Rose or Mary — she did n't know which — and before she could get into a worry as to whether Feargal had meant his offer to take her to Carlingford he walked in through the back door . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Her father came in through the back door . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | So I expect somebody 's been and er the er the door thing , you can get in the back way and in through the back door . |
| 16 | I thought we were going to have a visitor coming in through the back door . |
| 17 | Before the stone had come to a halt it was pounced upon by the entire family who gleefully heaved the unfortunate lump of granite out through the back door and out of their lives ! |
| 18 | The decide to go out through the back door . |
| 19 | He cut the power by the meter and collected his roll and the half-completed form from the kitchen table before he let himself out through the back door . |
| 20 | She 'd make for the kitchen , she thought , and let herself out through the back door . |