Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the ladder " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , by the 1920s and 1930s , only a tiny minority of Burmese politicians had come up via the ladder of education and training in Britain , by which Gandhi , Jinnah and Nehru had risen . |
| 2 | But Gabriel trudged on up the ladder , knowing only that he preferred to be with Izzie and her father than alone in the chapel with these stony figures against its walls , all staring with stony eyes , and all too lonely to touch one another . |
| 3 | From the start , go down the ladder , grab the crate and kill the green blob , jump down the hole into the water , swim over to the ladder and get out , avoiding the workman in the process , continue right , kill the blob and move into the ladder , climb up and collect the records ( avoiding the broken ones ) , dive down the hole , swim right to the open/close door then go up the ladder , pick up the crate and jump out the open gap onto the railway line and lob the crate at the workman , move left over the trains ( killing the blobs with spare crates if you wish ) until you reach the end . |
| 4 | They clambered back down the ladder and visited all the little rooms in the top floor to a steady stream of disparagement from the countess . |
| 5 | Finally convinced Seb knew nothing , Boz stepped back from the ladder . |
| 6 | The apprentice put the ladle to its mouth , then nodded appreciatively and started back down the ladder as the seneschal continued , going against tradition . |
| 7 | He waved and shouted something at the mercer in the street below , then scrambled back onto the ladder again and started to descend . |
| 8 | She took a step backwards and this seemed to satisfy him , because he went on up the ladder . |
| 9 | Notice the direction in which you are having to pull the curve on each axis , and move on the ladder of powers accordingly : down in the Y direction ? go down on the ladder of powers with Y , and so on . |
| 10 | A general family of transformations — involving raising the data values to different powers was introduced as a guide to correcting straggle : if the straggle is downward , go up on the ladder of powers , and vice versa . |
| 11 | At the end of the day it is good to be able to think that as you step back to look at the work — especially if you remember to get down from the ladder first . |
| 12 | What about twinning , do you think that that 's of such a high priority that when council houses need repairs that those repairs should be put down on the ladder and said ‘ I 'm sorry , we ca n't deal with that because part of the money that we could allocate to council house repairs is being used for twinning and things like that ’ ? |
| 13 | Use the map to get up to the ladder on the other side and climb out onto the platform , pick up a crate and kill the workman , now kill the green blob and complete the level by reaching the flag . |
| 14 | Mothers who had left jobs in the middle of the socio-economic spectrum were most exposed to the risk of falling back on the ladder , particularly if they left a long gap in their employment record . |