Example sentences of "come [prep] the [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 | They came to the second door . |
| 17 | Willis came to the front door dressed only in a pair of trousers . |
| 18 | When it came to the front door , she found she could n't go in . |
| 19 | There was a wee window you could look into before you came to the back door and she was always sitting reading the paper . |
| 20 | We drove up the drive and came to the back door ; there were no police there either . |
| 21 | Rachel had been quiet but now Carrie could hear her stirring , the growing sounds of protest coming through the open door . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We came down and realised there was water coming through the back door and the walls . |
| 24 | He 'd give us funny stories — the Colonel coming in the front door while Luke left through the back . |
| 25 | The music was coming from the closed door . |
| 26 | But downstairs I rang the bell next to the black steel gates and after a while I heard someone coming to the front door . |
| 27 | Little wonder we 're suspicious of people coming to the front door ! |
| 28 | The locks did n't come off the animal-house doors until Jenner had cleared out . ’ |
| 29 | Silvia had just came through the front door — that car had n't been Guido after all . |
| 30 | Does the horse come to the stable door to investigate you , and perhaps give you a friendly nuzzle ? |