Example sentences of "he [verb] in through " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Did you see him come in through the back door ? ’
2 He came back , and he had been very quick , with an umbrella from which , as he plunged in through the swing door , he was tearing the plastic wrapping .
3 As he crept in through the scullery window she would leap from her bedroom and conceal herself in the nettles , unconscious of the pain .
4 He got in through a half-closed larder window .
5 He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out .
6 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 .
7 A deadlock can only be opened with a key so a thief can not smash a pane of glass and open the door ; or if he gets in through a window , he ca n't carry your property out through the door .
8 When he shut the door of her taxi twenty minutes later he leant in through the window .
9 He went in through the plain mahogany door , and stopped .
10 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 .
11 He went in through the school gates when he were five
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