Example sentences of "come [prep] [art] [adj] door " in BNC.
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1 | and , and they do it about four or five times , you know , the king of Snowdonia , welcome to see and all the bugles going you know all of a sudden he appears in the middle of the picture he says oh I 've come through the back door |
2 | At the [ material ] time the plaintiff had come from the back door of the house and had walked diagonally across the first concrete area ; she was intending to go and have a chat with her neighbour at the next house . |
3 | This from Garry who had just come in the front door . |
4 | She read it idiotically at least three times , until she 'd convinced herself there was no hidden psychological message in the bare statement of fact , and then realised that someone had just come in the front door of the flat and was moving around in the hall . |
5 | I says well we have n't come by the front door , which we had n't of course . |
6 | She came through the front door of the shop and was a little surprised at not seeing her husband behind the counter . |
7 | His neighbour came through the front door of the house to the right . |
8 | As he came through the front door he had picked up his post . |
9 | When the daily help came through the back door and into the kitchen , she found Beth sitting at the table , breathless and dishevelled . |
10 | Tom O'Neill came through the revolving doors on a blast of icy air and stepped out on the other side into a blanket of almost oppressive warmth . |
11 | Make-up could work wonders , though , and she was just putting the finishing touches to her lipstick when Travis came through the connecting door . |
12 | I was sitting there waiting for the grub to show when Martin Amis came through the open door — you know , the writer I was chatting to in the pub the other night . |
13 | A chill wind came through the open doors to the balcony . |
14 | Downstairs if you came in the front door ( which people rarely did ) you would find a large room on each side . |
15 | Silly-Willie met her in the hall , he came from the farthest door ; his step was as fast and light as his dancing . |
16 | At the forward end of that we came to a glass-panelled door , which needed no key , and suddenly we were in the comparative quietness of the drivers ' cab , right at the front of the train . |
17 | They came to the second door . |
18 | Willis came to the front door dressed only in a pair of trousers . |
19 | When it came to the front door , she found she could n't go in . |
20 | There was a wee window you could look into before you came to the back door and she was always sitting reading the paper . |
21 | We drove up the drive and came to the back door ; there were no police there either . |
22 | Rachel had been quiet but now Carrie could hear her stirring , the growing sounds of protest coming through the open door . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | We came down and realised there was water coming through the back door and the walls . |
25 | He 'd give us funny stories — the Colonel coming in the front door while Luke left through the back . |
26 | The music was coming from the closed door . |
27 | Blessed light showed faintly at the second-floor landing , coming from an open door . |
28 | But downstairs I rang the bell next to the black steel gates and after a while I heard someone coming to the front door . |
29 | Little wonder we 're suspicious of people coming to the front door ! |
30 | The locks did n't come off the animal-house doors until Jenner had cleared out . ’ |