Example sentences of "through the back [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would n't fit through the back door . ’ |
| 2 | He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door . |
| 3 | Blind panic now ruled him ; he raced through the connecting door into the shop , ransacked the till and then hurriedly retreated through the back door , locking it and throwing the key into the ditch . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Before the stone had come to a halt it was pounced upon by the entire family who gleefully heaved the unfortunate lump of granite out through the back door and out of their lives ! |
| 6 | He nodded and followed her through the back door into the kitchen . |
| 7 | There is a kind of Leavisism creeping through the back door in this stubbornly middle-class liking for disengaged moralising and metaphysical writing . |
| 8 | One Reform rabbi , Jonathan Romain , describes them as ‘ the Jewish militant tendency ’ : ‘ They do jobs that no one else will do — as caretakers or teachers — and take over the synagogues through the back door . |
| 9 | Other members of the family were wrapping Christmas presents in another room when the Loyalist killers smashed their way through the back door of the house in Belfast . |
| 10 | When we squeeze the Devil out through the front door , we unwittingly let in all sorts of secular ideologies that masquerade as Christian ones ( which is just another way of saying that he comes in again through the back door ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's nervous , ’ said Bodie , as he and Doyle trotted across the cracked patio and into the house through the back door . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Whenever her father returned unexpectedly , I would make a frantic , unscheduled exit through the back door and over the wall . |
| 17 | The decide to go out through the back door . |
| 18 | I consider this is the equivalent of a residence order through the back door , and do not think it appropriate to make that order when Parliament has specifically denied the right to grant ex parte applications for residence orders : see also the provisions of section 9(5) of the Children Act 1989 . |
| 19 | When the daily help came through the back door and into the kitchen , she found Beth sitting at the table , breathless and dishevelled . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , time enters through the back door in the discussion of reaction patterns . |
| 21 | cos there is n't no ventilator in it , and that 's the one we sleep in cos we 're frightened of people coming through the back door in the night , you know kicking in the back door , so we sleep in the other room . |
| 22 | He cut the power by the meter and collected his roll and the half-completed form from the kitchen table before he let himself out through the back door . |
| 23 | He used another of his plastic cards to let himself in through the back door . |
| 24 | Through the back door — via the Opens , the BT New Contemporaries — women are moving in . |
| 25 | In other words , he was supposed to slip through the back door into the country , unseen , unheard and unsung . |
| 26 | ‘ Did you see him come in through the back door ? ’ |
| 27 | When he went through the back door he discovered the printers had gone home and thought at first no one was there . |
| 28 | We went through the back door and into the big room where I had been before . |
| 29 | I remember hens , large grey ones , wandering in through the back door . |
| 30 | 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 . |