Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] by the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed . |
| 2 | In truth , Cabernet is beginning to creep in by the back door . |
| 3 | It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Going in by the back door |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Then there 's a water butt up by the back door ; and some honeysuckle growing over the porch . |
| 8 | He would look in the summer-house before coming in by the back door but he seldom found me there now . |
| 9 | She went in by the front door and upstairs to her room ; and was still being torn apart by her emotions . |
| 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 | In the little hall , Francis put on a waterproof coat and cap and they went out by the back door . |
| 12 | And he had gone out by the front door , presumably to present an appearance of normality if he should be seen by any of the family — a late evening stroll before bed being a simple enough amusement — while she could save the whole circuit of the house by using the back door close to the kitchen . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It currently has a service within the Fire Service wh which costs a certain amount and we ca n't presume and I would , I suspect that Councillor is is actually trying to do is to get in by the back door for cut that we will then be forced to make the March March March Committee well I hope that members of this at this this this Committee would reject that er suggestion as it at the last meeting . |
| 15 | She was allowed in by the back door . |