Example sentences of "walk [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window .
2 He shrugged his shoulders , before walking over to the small refrigerator set in a corner of the living-room .
3 But by walking up to the eastern corrie , Coire an Dothaidh , fear is not an issue ; only leg muscle .
4 Walking up from the main road we passed the camel drivers squatting round their early morning fires .
5 I remember walking out into the bright sunlight of a late summer 's day in central London thinking : ‘ Oh God , how the hell do I tell people ? ’
6 THE Princess of Wales seriously considered walking out on the Royal Family , according to royal biographer Andrew Morton .
7 THE Princess of Wales seriously considered walking out on the Royal Family , according to controversial royal biographer Andrew Morton .
8 A DEFENDANT on trial for a horrifying knife murder was on the run last night after walking out of the Old Bailey .
9 These people are going into the familiar local stores where they shop and are walking out with the American dream they could never afford on a minimum wage .
10 Downes looked down at his wristwatch , and at last turned away , walking back along the bare platform towards the footbridge — where he was confronted by the bulk of the broad-shouldered Lewis .
11 Not from the beach — I think the salt there would probably kill hookworm — but in the back streets of the town , where the sewage system was n't what it might have been , and also walking around on the wooden deck of an old schooner sailing to Aldabra .
12 Luke shouted up to Anna that he would take Flora in , and then walk on to the sixth-form college .
13 Walk on to the unstable cliff tops .
14 But in practice , neither popular music , however understood , nor its Others — ‘ folk song ’ , ‘ traditional music ’ , ‘ art music ’ , ‘ bourgeois music ’ , or whatever else — walk on to the historical stage in this uncontaminated form .
15 That 's interesting where do they meet , walk down to the local church and that 's great well what sort of time do they meet oh you know eleven till five ?
16 In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning :
17 They had organized a decoy system whereby Carolyn drove Diana 's car to entice her press pursuers away and then Diana would emerge from Coleherne Court and walk off in the other direction .
18 I walk up to the lefthand end of this street , where it emerges in Trafalgar Square , and check the name : Spring Gardens .
19 We 'll visit the Jewish quarter , count statues of Saints on the famous Charles Bridge and walk up to the Presidential Palace area , stopping to see the wax figurine of the infant Jesus and to rest in the lovely gardens .
20 I walk up to the main building along a path of large brown stones with the shape and texture of unleavened bread .
21 Here you can sit in an arch-lined square , shop for the region 's wonderful food and wine , wander the Saturday market , or perhaps walk up to the medieval hilltop castle and village of Montefioralle where the views stretch forever .
22 I went on through , sliding the heavy plate glass aside to walk on to the humid porch where a morose looking McIllvanney slouched in a cane chair and stared through the insect screens at the darkening sea .
23 I want nothing more than to walk along on the darkened plain , the moon as strong as winter sunlight in London , speaking Maa with this man .
24 Usually in Maytime she liked to walk up into the high mountain meadows to see the wild flowers , but this year she had no heart .
25 They walked on into the thickening woodland .
26 Wriggling free , she walked on towards the back door , Feargal following her every step .
27 She tugged at Sadie 's sleeve and they walked on down the long aisle of the hall .
28 The last of the Rat-Tail men walked on down the High Street towards the Cross , stars his calling-cards .
29 They walked on across the cleared area in silence .
30 After a while they clapped , and then his sister walked on to the low platform that was surrounded by a frothy sea of pink and white azalea plants .
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