Example sentences of "[adv prt] to the hall " in BNC.

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1 Old Lady Bridhe , widowed sister to Eachuinn Odhar and mistress of Duart Castle till Marion arrived , was late going down to the hall .
2 Bridhe lifted the baby , slipped a magic coral and rowan-berry necklace over his head and walked sun-wise round the bed three times for good fortune , before taking the child down to the hall to present him to his father , to Eachuinn Odhar and the clansmen assembled .
3 Within an hour his bed was moved down to the hall , so that everything was under his own eye .
4 " I am going down , " she whispered , and before Maria Candida could stop her , had gathered her skirts and was running down to the hall .
5 She did not even go as far as her room — the sound of the door being unlocked , opening and closing again should surely not carry down to the hall .
6 Down to the hall again , and across it to the front door .
7 I went down to the hall and found Santerre still intent on lavishing hospitality on his guests .
8 Benjamin insisted that we shave , wash and change our linen and doublets before going down to the hall .
9 ‘ You are reluctant to go down to the hall , demoiselle ?
10 Okay , so when you come to look at these videos , okay , slightly exaggerated but if you go down to court , and you might like to go down to the hall or somewhere locally , you 'll actually find that there are advocates who do what did deliberately wrong and what did deliberately wrong .
11 are you going down to the hall ?
12 Coats , bags and shoes were to be left in the corridors and not brought in to the hall .
13 only had this sprung on me er today er when I went in to the Hall and and and saw them with a notice and a table collecting signatures .
14 With this comforting thought Henry rang the doorbell , hard , and watched his wife heave herself out of the chair and stump through to the hall .
15 ‘ We 're just going through to the hall , ’ said Dominic .
16 With the first of the ovens he 'd gone the long way through to the Hall 's kitchens , taking in the sights as he went .
17 Panting breathlessly , she turned from the door and moved through to the hall , where Donna was trying to make her way down the stairs .
18 She jumped to her feet and walked quickly through to the hall , her eyes blazing fiercely .
19 He was also , he realized , as he went through to the hall to get Hasan 's coat , tied to the little boy in a way he could not have predicted .
20 Bunny raised no more than than an eyebrow and we shouldered our way through to the hall where Dosh and Freddie were discovering that they could really get to like Kümmel .
21 She would crouch by the steps , ignored , till there was no-one on the narrow spiral stair , glide like a slim shadow up to the hall , and when the next stair was free , on up to the bower , where Catriona , wife of the Maclean 's piper , had a baby .
22 Instead of another row with her mother , she had decided that she must get to the bottom of things by going up to the Hall and speaking to Miss Hatherby , and she pedalled as fast as she could .
23 I 'm sure it was , Patrick grinned as he walked down the corridor and climbed the half-dozen steps from the servants ' quarters up to the hall ; he had seen the look on the butler 's face , and knew how uncomfortable it had been for him .
24 He did n't mind responding to a panic call at such a late hour , especially not when it meant transporting three microwave ovens up to the Hall and so getting an advance peek at the preparations .
25 I remember driving up to the Hall one evening about three weeks before he died .
26 Leaving behind the property wagons , and giving Lucie instructions to collect tributes from the people of Pontydd , he drove the pageant up to the Hall .
27 Then , when she turned the corner , he went out to the hall and picked up the phone .
28 Kate went out to the hall with him and Patrick kissed her gently .
29 Angela went out to the hall and came back pulling on her coat .
30 Stella followed her friend out to the hall .
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