Example sentences of "in [prep] the back " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Hank drifted silently in through the back door and deposited a pile of school books on the kitchen table and a fair amount of snow on the kitchen floor from his moccasins . |
| 5 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 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 | He used another of his plastic cards to let himself in through the back door . |
| 8 | ‘ Did you see him come in through the back door ? ’ |
| 9 | I remember hens , large grey ones , wandering in through the back 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 | Scrambling to her feet , Ellie ran after the racing Terry , down the stairs , out the back door , across the grounds and in through the back door of the restaurant . |
| 12 | It is almost as if someone has allowed subsidiarity in through the back door of the Town Hall , but not announced its arrival to anyone . |
| 13 | Her father came in through the back door . |
| 14 | At the Conservative Party conference in October 1988 Mrs Thatcher stated : ‘ We have n't worked all these years to free Britain from the paralysis of socialism only to see it creep in through the back door of central control and bureaucracy from Brussels ’ . |
| 15 | So I expect somebody 's been and er the er the door thing , you can get in the back way and in through the back door . |
| 16 | I thought we were going to have a visitor coming in through the back door . |
| 17 | When she walked in at the back door Mrs Peterson said : ‘ You 're back then . |
| 18 | Lyn switched off the set as Stephen came in at the back door . |
| 19 | Some writers ostensibly agree with the principle , yet sneak in at the back door and cosh the reader with a highly personal style . |
| 20 | They claimed that mid-week polls showing a large Labour lead had shocked some floating voters into the realisation that opting for the Liberal Democrats would let Mr Kinnock in by the back door . |
| 21 | ‘ Good morning , Mrs Wooldridge , ’ said Mrs Deacon , letting her in by the back door . |
| 22 | In truth , Cabernet is beginning to creep in by the back door . |
| 23 | Going in by the back door |
| 24 | He would look in the summer-house before coming in by the back door but he seldom found me there now . |
| 25 | ‘ I just came home , let myself in by the back door and went straight to bed . ’ |
| 26 | If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 29 | She was allowed in by the back door . |
| 30 | 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 . |