Example sentences of "[verb] in [prep] the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up . |
| 5 | If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In truth , Cabernet is beginning to creep in by the back door . |
| 8 | I remember hens , large grey ones , wandering in through the back door . |
| 9 | Looking in through the open door of one , I saw a fat , drunk skinhead in a wheelchair . |
| 10 | I could relive it every time I came in through the front door . |
| 11 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 14 | Her father came in through the back door . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Lyn switched off the set as Stephen came in at the back door . |
| 17 | It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door . |
| 18 | Vincent barely managed to keep his temper in check in the blast of this ‘ raw north wind ’ that had come howling in through the front door . |
| 19 | ‘ I never like going in through the front door , ’ Ace said , ‘ but I guess you 're right . ’ |
| 20 | He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door . |
| 21 | Going in by the back door |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | and peering in through the front door |
| 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 | The authorities warned young people about the ‘ unhealthy winds ’ blowing in through the open door , such as sexual promiscuity , pornography and prostitution , homosexuality , alcohol abuse and drugs . |
| 27 | The damp wind blowing in at the open door made him shiver and he went to wake the others . |
| 28 | I thought we were going to have a visitor coming in through the back door . |
| 29 | There was a long silence and they lay absolutely still and grew cold together in the draught coming in under the closed door . |
| 30 | He would look in the summer-house before coming in by the back door but he seldom found me there now . |