Example sentences of "through the back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike Salman Rushdie , he can still take his walks through the back streets of his chosen city . |
| 2 | It would n't fit through the back door . ’ |
| 3 | As well as parcels , UPS accepts palletised air freight and the single rear wheels allow pallets to be slid into the vehicles through the back doors . |
| 4 | He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She walked to the shops and back , sometimes walked through the back streets , once almost as far as Marcus 's flat ( but did not dare to go near it ) , avoiding the noisy King 's Road , and the embankment where Jack often walked with Alison , and as she knew , farther east where Ludens walked with Marcus . |
| 7 | When this happens the rest of the school , who along the way have trained with the successful runner , may have beaten him on occasion , have been course markers , marshals , timekeepers , supporters and team-mates , really feel that sport is n't just another soap opera glimpsed on television or paraded through the back pages of the newspapers — it 's something that they are actively experiencing at first hand for themselves . |
| 8 | There was a time when a priest had to sneak like a thief through the back streets and alleyways of this city in order to say Mass in some garret or other . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | He nodded and followed her through the back door into the kitchen . |
| 12 | Half running , half walking , they fled through the back garden , narrowly missing the Anderson , and threw themselves into the passage-way , the leaves swirling in after them . |
| 13 | There is a kind of Leavisism creeping through the back door in this stubbornly middle-class liking for disengaged moralising and metaphysical writing . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's nervous , ’ said Bodie , as he and Doyle trotted across the cracked patio and into the house through the back door . |
| 21 | It was a hard , fast drive through the congested streets , the girl picking her way expertly through the back streets to avoid the worst of the jams . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Whenever her father returned unexpectedly , I would make a frantic , unscheduled exit through the back door and over the wall . |
| 24 | through the back streets of post-war Rome |
| 25 | The decide to go out through the back door . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | When the daily help came through the back door and into the kitchen , she found Beth sitting at the table , breathless and dishevelled . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , time enters through the back door in the discussion of reaction patterns . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |