Example sentences of "steps [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He steps on to the bathroom scales . |
| 2 | From the paved patio one steps down to the path that leads around to the side of the house , diving access to the rotary washing line that is set in a bed of loose cobbles and sculptural boulders . |
| 3 | The new president is not expected to take office until March 1990 , or at best 1 January if Jose Sarney steps down from the presidency early . |
| 4 | The air has become all silent , all female , and he steps in with the breeze of the outer world on him like a blast of cold nitrogen . |
| 5 | Or does he concur with the view of the Minister for Housing and Planning that the homeless are merely the people whom one steps over on the way out of the opera ? |
| 6 | Another Desert Storm , even another Somalia — where the United Nations appeals for someone to help , and America steps up with the will and manpower to do so — might give Mr Clinton an aura of leadership that could help at home . |
| 7 | WHEN KIERON steps up onto the stage it is with a determination to trip the light fantastic and provide the evening with some of its more mellow moments . |
| 8 | So it was without surprise that he found himself sharing with her one of the tinny , open-sided cars of the creaky old funicular that saved tourists the toil of climbing the seven hundred and more steep stone steps up from the Marina Grande . |
| 9 | ‘ Happy Christmas , ma'am , ’ the postman says and , as he steps back into the darkness , she notices he 's wearing gloves . |
| 10 | He steps back into the caravan , staring hard at me . |
| 11 | Tregaron are also strengthened by the return of medium pacer Barri Williams , while batsman Alun Hateley also steps back into the side . |
| 12 | GRAEME SOUNESS steps back into the pressure cooker of soccer management tomorrow , snarling at suggestions that heart surgery has taken the fire out of him . |
| 13 | Walking through the ancient forest of Wychwood , EV Thompson steps back through the mists of time . |
| 14 | He shrewdly steps back from the action , turning his narrative into a clever mosaic of stories from the edgy extremes of urban life . |
| 15 | He accepts there will be a bit of a hullabaloo when he steps out of the tunnel , maybe smiling at the ‘ This is Anfield ’ sign . |
| 16 | Then it steps out into the world . |