Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] door " in BNC.

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1 Most people do not wish to see what goes on behind the locked doors .
2 But on the night of January 1st , thieves crept in through a back door and took £30,000 worth of family heirlooms , including two trophies won by the stud farm nearly a century ago :
3 Beyond this , four short steps led down to an oval door let into a solid steel bulkhead .
4 Eddie was staring at her with eyes as hard as granite but all she said was , ‘ You 'll have to go in at the front door .
5 As I got out I caught the enigmatic Mr Goodson sneaking in through the front door , but if he 'd seen me pull up , he did n't wait to say Hello .
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 Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up .
8 If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed .
9 He was disturbed when his 2 attackers crashed in through a back door .
10 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 .
11 In truth , Cabernet is beginning to creep in by the back door .
12 ‘ If you 'd be kind enough to come down to the front door , I 'll explain everything . ’
13 In November 1990 , they lined up inside the front door to shake the Majors by the hand ; following an election victory , protocol decrees that Turnbull should lead his colleagues in applause .
14 Adrian Scanlon insisted on driving up to the front door , once I had opened the gate .
15 A stray , dingy orange kitten came yowling up to the back door one night .
16 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 .
17 The van spun off the road into a school fence and trainee decorator Wayne , of Marrick Road , Park End , was catapulted out of the rear doors .
18 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 .
19 Despite everything , a lot of burglaries are still carried out via the front door .
20 I remember hens , large grey ones , wandering in through the back door .
21 Looking in through the open door of one , I saw a fat , drunk skinhead in a wheelchair .
22 He came down to the front door with me .
23 I could relive it every time I came in through the front door .
24 She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door .
25 There was a layer of grey-blue smoke in the room at about shoulder level , and a big wave in it , probably produced by me as I came in through the double doors of the back porch .
26 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 .
27 He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out .
28 Her father came in through the back door .
29 He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval .
30 Lyn switched off the set as Stephen came in at the back door .
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