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

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1 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 :
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Reproaching herself for not having unlocked it when she had come in from the main door , she rose quickly and went to open up .
6 If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed .
7 He was disturbed when his 2 attackers crashed in through a back door .
8 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 .
9 In truth , Cabernet is beginning to creep in by the back door .
10 I remember hens , large grey ones , wandering in through the back door .
11 Looking in through the open door of one , I saw a fat , drunk skinhead in a wheelchair .
12 I could relive it every time I came in through the front door .
13 She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out .
17 Her father came in through the back door .
18 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 .
19 Lyn switched off the set as Stephen came in at the back door .
20 It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door .
21 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 .
22 Just as her words were out one of the charity women came chattering in through the open doors to the terrace .
23 Without waiting for an answer , she piled into the back — ‘ Are n't there any seat-belts for the twins ? ’ — and Carol , determined to believe I did not exist , joined her , after loading something which I did n't see in through the rear doors .
24 ‘ I never like going in through the front door , ’ Ace said , ‘ but I guess you 're right . ’
25 He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door .
26 Going in by the back door
27 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 . ’
28 and peering in through the front door
29 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 .
30 I walked in at the first door I saw .
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