Example sentences of "[vb past] in [prep] the [adj] door " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could relive it every time I came in through the front door . |
| 2 | She was hanging up the jacket of her plum-coloured suit when Rebecca came in through the outer door . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 6 | Her father came in through the back door . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Lyn switched off the set as Stephen came in at the back door . |
| 9 | It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I walked in at the first door I saw . |
| 12 | When she walked in at the back door Mrs Peterson said : ‘ You 're back then . |
| 13 | She went in through the front door , as always . |
| 14 | The last time that that young person went into secure accommodation in Middlesbrough , he went in through the front door at 3.30 pm , and at 5.30 pm he disappeared out the back door and stole a car to make his escape . |
| 15 | The first time she rang the bell and went in through the front doors of the elegant old house where the showrooms were situated ( Mattli had no rear entrance ) Paula felt she was stepping into the place of her dreams . |
| 16 | He waited another second , then shrugged his shoulders and went in through the double doors . |
| 17 | She went in by the front door and upstairs to her room ; and was still being torn apart by her emotions . |
| 18 | Cold air drifted in through the front door . |