Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [adj] staircase " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Summerchild locks up his office and goes down the narrow staircase . |
| 2 | We wandered up the darkened staircase back to our chamber . |
| 3 | Ebenezer was dimly aware that he was being carried up the narrow staircase . |
| 4 | Out of the window , as she hastened down the spiral staircase , Mildred saw the fires which were being lit in the ruins of the old castle where the celebrations were always held . |
| 5 | With his two daughters , one holding each hand , he came down the long staircase from the top-floor flat . |
| 6 | At that moment Jack Carter and Dougal Munro came down the main staircase . |
| 7 | I walk down the real staircase , but I know , like Lot 's wife knew , that everything is crumbling to a smoke screen behind me , the urge to look back slaps at my face , but there has been enough powder to nothing in my life . |
| 8 | I run down the spiral staircase and along the empty corridor . |
| 9 | If only I had a crinoline to sweep down the grand staircase in ! |
| 10 | He climbed up the outside staircase past the fountains surrounded by black-veiled women filling their pots with water and out on to the little parapeted promenade which crowned the second storey . |
| 11 | This time a tour guide at Althorp saw ‘ the ghost of an old man ’ going up the main staircase . |
| 12 | He scampered up the outer staircase and disappeared into the hall . |
| 13 | She glanced up the wide staircase . |
| 14 | Emily turned and walked up the wide staircase , looking painfully at the bare walls where paintings of her ancestors had hung for generations . |
| 15 | In a thousand remote little farmhouses and cottages , islanded beneath wind-shriven willows or leaning poplars , the racing floods covered the black fields , overflowed the straight dykes … and leaping upon those lonely homes with all the relentless force of wind and gales , burst open the doors , shattered the ground floor windows … and rushed gurgling and swirling up the narrow staircase . |
| 16 | Then Julius closed the door again and started up the winding staircase nearby . |
| 17 | Lastly they went down the main staircase to the Director s office . |
| 18 | Later , in the chapel adjoining the castle , Father Jerome said Benediction and prayed for Sara and the life that lay before her ; and then she went up the narrow staircase to her bed and , when Candida had helped her to undress , stood a while longer at her window , looking through the narrow slit at the lights in the harbour and the dark , massive mountains behind . |
| 19 | Lee , the helmet once more on his head , went up the dark staircase . |
| 20 | Stealthily he slipped down the deserted staircase past the second and third floors without mishap . |
| 21 | Julia incredulously heard the Archdeacon say to the Dean , the tone , which was mellifluous , floating up the elegant staircase . |
| 22 | I listened to her footsteps cross the hall and start up the great staircase , then proceeded to the doorway myself . |
| 23 | ‘ So I 've noticed , ’ said Meredith , and he pushed past him impatiently and ran down the grand staircase in search of Bunny . |
| 24 | The study doors are those that face one as one comes down the great staircase . |
| 25 | It was all too clear Auguste had been out enjoying the pleasures of Broadstairs , one of which was just disappearing up the main staircase , folding up her parasol . |