Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Even their religious faith was subtly different from her own : they seemed hemmed in by a regiment of saints , feasts , rules , indulgences , penances and novenas , and everyone seemed to be permanently on guard against saying or doing anything that might be deemed heretical . |
| 3 | In truth , Cabernet is beginning to creep in by the back door . |
| 4 | You are like the prisoner who is honourably circumspect but who gets turned in by an accomplice . |
| 5 | But disappointment began to set in by the time the ballot boxes had been emptied , and when the second stage of the count began , at 12.45 a.m. , it soon became clear that it would be a two-horse race . |
| 6 | The crew decided to go in by the entrance to Fingal 's cave . |
| 7 | Corbett felt hemmed in by the sheer frustration of the task assigned him . |
| 8 | If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed . |
| 9 | She had bought Martyr 's Cottage before his appointment as Director of the power station and he had moved in by an unspoken agreement that this was a temporary expedient while he decided what to do , keep on the Barbican flat as his main home or sell the flat and buy a house in Norwich and a smaller pied à terre in London . |
| 10 | Last time the fibre-optic and wire-cutter had gone in by the front door ; this time they were to enter by the back . |
| 11 | 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 . |