Example sentences of "[pers pn] walked up the " in BNC.

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1 After midnight Nell said she was going to bed , and I walked up the train with her to her roomette , almost opposite mine .
2 A series of falls hidden from immediate view follows the gill on the left-hand side and one May morning as I walked up the gill the falls were roaring after the heavy rains of the week before .
3 It sounds quite absurd but the other day I walked up the footpath from the road just to see if it was .
4 And I walked up the village this morning the birds were singing their songs
5 Course I ye , I walked up the top of Clarendon Road there when a I was first going out to work up there old Bill .
6 And I said when I walked up the other day
7 She walked up the wide , white steps and gently pushed it open .
8 She wanted to be noticed in all her finery and as she walked up the aisle she kept stopping to give a little cough on the back of her hand and looking from side to side .
9 She walked up the stone stairs to the sound of the scratchy long-playing record , highlights from Turandot , which she had put on as they had sat down for dinner .
10 She saw Elaine as soon as she walked up the planked wooden steps to the bar , and noticed as she drew closer that her friend was already tipsy .
11 She walked up the same hill which d'Urberville had driven down so wildly that June day .
12 She walked up the smooth grassy knoll to the centre , and examined the patient .
13 In a conversation which she later recalled to friends Diana told him : ‘ You looked so sad when you walked up the aisle at the funeral .
14 If you walked up the brow at the back of the house you were in two minutes up on a great closely cropped bare turfy expanse , looking down at the sea ; and to the left all the indentations of the coastline , the bays , the beaches and coves within them , the tumble of rocks at the bottom of some sheer cliff , far west to lonely and uninhabitable shores , was visible .
15 We walked up the wooden passage .
16 The next morning we walked up the glacier and did a lengthy rock scramble , the Trifthorn ( 3,728 metres ) , partly to acclimatise , and partly because Martin had tried it a few years earlier and failed to reach the top .
17 We soon reached an Inn at a place called Hardraw , and descending from our vehicles , after warming ourselves by the cottage fire we walked up the brook side to take a view of a third waterfall …
18 We walked up the wide stone steps .
19 We walked up the beaten trackway , slipping and cursing on the icy ground underfoot .
20 They walked up the wide stone steps and into a small reception area .
21 In April that year she married William Arbuthnot and during their honeymoon they walked up the Schilthorn from Murren , accompanied by a guide .
22 But they reached the house , or rather the road below , and when Adamus had paid the driver-no account was mentioned — they walked up the crumbling slope in the shadowed midday light , and came out among the wet green oaks , and the house appeared .
23 Chopra felt frightened as they walked up the narrow stairway to the battlements .
24 They walked up the beach to where they had left their towels .
25 They walked up the steep cliff path and checked the life-saving equipment and the box of emergency supplies .
26 The embalmers had done what they could but , even as they walked up the nave , both Cranston and Athelstan caught the whiff of putrefaction .
27 It was also noticed that he ceased to whistle unconsciously as he walked up the aisle from the vestry .
28 Information and Planning , he was thinking as he walked up the ramp , shoulders stooped to further alter his appearance .
29 He walked up the church shouting for Southgate to join him .
30 DETECTIVES are hunting the killer of a friendly bus driver gunned down as he walked up the driveway to his North-East home .
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