Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] the back door " in BNC.

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1 If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed .
2 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 .
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 He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out .
5 Her father came in through the back door .
6 Lyn switched off the set as Stephen came in at the back door .
7 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 .
8 Theodora circled the house in the direction of the arrow and came round to the back door .
9 I thought we were going to have a visitor coming in through the back door .
10 He would look in the summer-house before coming in by the back door but he seldom found me there now .
11 It seems that the Battler and Rico let fly at somebody who was coming out of the back door of the Regal Arms .
12 ‘ Did you see him come in through the back door ? ’
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