Example sentences of "come [prep] the steps " in BNC.
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| 1 | His relief came up the steps . |
| 2 | Remember when he came up the steps ? |
| 3 | They came up the steps with a Coptic woman in a long black gown and veil . |
| 4 | Its engine stopped , the door slid open and a courier-woman in high heels came down the steps and put up an umbrella . |
| 5 | I 'm afraid they came down the steps and chose the path leading away from me , so I only saw those three at a distance . |
| 6 | But , as she came down the steps of the beautiful russet Georgian house , first impressions were very depressing . |
| 7 | They came down the steps at the side of the tunnel and disappeared into the darkness . |
| 8 | A treasury statistician came down the steps of the ministry and met a beggar who held out his hand and said , ‘ Spare a shilling , mister ? |
| 9 | Her mother seemed scarcely to breathe as she lay immobile , and Anne felt a tremendous surge of relief when the cellar door opened and Helen came down the steps . |
| 10 | A mortuary van drew up at the end of the bridge , and two men , carrying a stretcher , came down the steps . |
| 11 | I came down the steps of the Ashbery that morning and burst out laughing at the heat . |
| 12 | At two thirty-five , the front door was opened by Penman , and Alexandra , in a green wool crèpe dress with a lace jabot and a good deal of complicated silk braid around the hem , under a coat of similar fabric , slit to the waist at the back and sides to allow for the movement of her skirts , and a hat swathed in green gauze and decorated on the left hand side with brown velvet pansies , came down the steps and climbed in . |
| 13 | Alexandra came down the steps in her new green clothes , under which she had managed to put her old comfortable corset when Lyddy had left the room to polish her boots , wearing a smile that was partly triumph at her illicit comfort and partly the satisfaction of having taken five hens ' and four pullets ' eggs to Dora in a little rush basket that very morning . |
| 14 | John of Gaunt came down the steps , laughing . |
| 15 | Daryl , a very tall thin young man with a neatly-trimmed beard , with a red knitted stocking tammy buffon 'd up on his hair , with thin features and a beautiful skin , more black than brown ( his mother 's face was a shiny cinnamon ) black and pointed like the African in pictures of the three kings , came down the steps into the kitchen with this tiny fair mite at the bottom of his long arm holding his hand . |
| 16 | The man came down the steps and began to cross the courtyard . |
| 17 | He was about to continue when officials of the embassy came down the steps to greet us . |
| 18 | They came down the steps of the hotel with their Kodaks — at the Continental there was always a large number of Americans — and were immediately fallen upon by dragomans , donkey-boys and street-traders of all kinds , all offering instant picturesqueness without the trouble of having to go too far in the heat to find it . |
| 19 | My the boss said a few things under his breath , came down the steps and we went back into the van . |
| 20 | David Rosen came to the steps and peered into the darkness as though into a room where he had no right to be . |
| 21 | the seneschal said as they came to the steps and went down them . |
| 22 | He heard strange clicking noises at the windows and footsteps coming up the steps . |
| 23 | Footsteps were heard coming up the steps , but no one ever appeared at the top of the steps . |
| 24 | Well I 'm not coming up the steps , and lift you down the steps ! |
| 25 | I still get butterflies coming down the steps to the tournament table . |
| 26 | He was only dimly aware of Alina coming down the steps toward him , only dimly aware of her crouching by him to smooth the hair from his forehead . |
| 27 | Fiona said , coming down the steps alongside a slim , blonde-haired girl who was zipping up an anorak . |
| 28 | As I got out of the car he was coming down the steps of Skeldale House and he put a hand on my arm . |
| 29 | The door of the plane was open and people were coming down the steps one after another . |
| 30 | When I came back Mrs Goreng was coming down the steps with her chauffeur , who was a one-armed sergeant with a pistol . |