Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the back door " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In truth , Cabernet is beginning to creep in by the back door . |
| 5 | A stray , dingy orange kitten came yowling up to the back door one night . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I remember hens , large grey ones , wandering in through the back door . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 11 | Her father came in through the back door . |
| 12 | Lyn switched off the set as Stephen came in at the back door . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Theodora circled the house in the direction of the arrow and came round to the back door . |
| 16 | He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door . |
| 17 | Going in by the back door |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | Victorine was confused by the tale Baptiste had told her just now when he and his mother turned up at the back door with Léonie 's sandal and an armful of bread . |
| 20 | Danny raced out of the back door , yelling , ‘ Dad , Gran says tea 's nearly ready ! |
| 21 | But for Major 's official papers , the pantechnicon drawing up at the back door might be unnecessary . |
| 22 | Then there 's a water butt up by the back door ; and some honeysuckle growing over the porch . |
| 23 | Wriggling free , she walked on towards the back door , Feargal following her every step . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When she walked in at the back door Mrs Peterson said : ‘ You 're back then . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I got a taxi as soon as I stepped out of the back door . |
| 28 | As they walked round to the back door , Ben , Simon 's dog , came lolloping up the beach , charged at Marie with a stick in his mouth and laid it down carefully at her feet . |
| 29 | The decide to go out through the back door . |
| 30 | I thought we were going to have a visitor coming in through the back door . |