Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [adj] ladder " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliver peered down the greasy ladder into the tiny engine room . |
| 2 | Suddenly I was climbing up the long ladder of the North pier , the rucksack being roped afterwards . |
| 3 | Material things they had in plenty , and though they had moved to cheaper housing she could not actually remember feeling that they had moved down the social ladder at all . |
| 4 | The men came down the stern ladder . |
| 5 | We climbed down the notched-pole ladder and picked our way through the muddy ground towards the back path , passing the neatly stacked woodpile and the growing heap of freshly gathered pine-needles . |
| 6 | Kalchu came rushing up the notched-pole ladder . |
| 7 | It is a contradiction which thousands happily go along with because they are keen to advance up the social ladder . |
| 8 | The drum grew louder in the final roll , the flautists blew steadily , keying up anticipation , and the rattle fell silent as Dulé took one step with his other foot and left the ground , then hand over hand into the air shinned up the free-standing ladder till he alighted at the tenth rung and hung there like a heron on a breakwater at home , it seemed to Kit , even as he asked himself in wonder , what unearthly magic 's here ? |
| 9 | Benjamin Titford had managed to clamber up the social ladder , as we have seen — rising , in the process , higher than his impoverished cousins in Frome had done . |
| 10 | Donna rarely ventured down the wooden ladder into it ; it was not well lit and , despite Ward–s attempts to convince her otherwise , she was certain that the entire cellar was seething with spiders , creatures she was frightened of . |
| 11 | Liessa swings down the mounting ladder and lands with her legs locked around Laolith 's leathery neck . |
| 12 | Furthermore , eligibility for statutory payments declined down the occupational ladder and those eligible for payment earned more than those ineligible — findings particularly significant for women . |
| 13 | At the same time , no power-dressed working woman would be seen dead without her higher heeled shoes — both to stamp on the toes of the men as she stepped up the corporate ladder and to balance her wide , padded shoulders . |
| 14 | Lacking axes or crampons we 'd kicked steps up the snowy approach gully the afternoon before and checked out the devious ladders and chains forming the descent from the summit . |
| 15 | His family slipped down the social ladder when his father 's garden-gnome business collapsed , but that could explain Major 's obsession , less with classlessness than with petit bourgeois respectability . |
| 16 | My father ca n't climb up the narrow ladder from the top floor ; and , even if he could , I know he would n't be able to negotiate the twist you have to make to get from the top of the ladder , round the brickwork of the chimney flues , and into the loft proper . |