Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] the [adj] staircase " in BNC.
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| 1 | When her aunt was dressed she walked slowly down the narrow staircase in front of her in case , in her weak state , she should stumble . |
| 2 | So down the wide staircase she goes , past the oak chest with its bowl of white roses on the half-landing , past the Albers squares , past the dim varnished portrait of a full-bosomed crimson gowned pearl-decked eighteenth-century woman who some take to be an ancestor , though she had in fact come with the house , down through the black and white tiled hall with its marble and gilt claw-legged table strewn with Christmas cards , gloves , and glossy free advertising magazines , and into the broad high first floor drawing-room , where sat Charles , drinking a gin and tonic , which she had expected , and talking to Esther and Alix , which she had not . |
| 3 | It was Mama , though , who wore it in the painting halfway up the great staircase — so that all who passed by could see it and admire . |
| 4 | They walked slowly up the broad staircase , Alec holding the oil-lamp a little above his head . |
| 5 | Suddenly the sequence was interrupted by a crash , an oath and an answering oath , under cover of which Amiss began to climb silently and wearily up the next staircase . |
| 6 | She heard him picking his way carefully down the spiral staircase at the back of the tenement and stood by the window , looking down into the street . |
| 7 | His hostess was beginning to wilt as she greeted the guests who , by now , were queuing half-way up the grand staircase . |