Example sentences of "[v-ing] in [prep] the back [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I remember hens , large grey ones , wandering in through the back door .
3 He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door .
4 Going in by the back door
5 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 . ’
6 I thought we were going to have a visitor coming in through the back door .
7 He would look in the summer-house before coming in by the back door but he seldom found me there now .
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