Example sentences of "the stairs " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conroy folded his cap into his pocket and started up the stairs , then pressed against the wall as footsteps clattered down and round the turn came Freddy Pepper himself , big ears and horn-rims that were his trademark , in tennis togs above which his ruddy make-up glowed . |
| 2 | Marion Conroy was on stage until the final curtain calls and came up the stairs with the rest of the cast afterwards , observing as she did that Pepper went into his No. 2 and shut the door but that Cissy opened it and went in after him , the wide-eyed babyish stare that was the caricaturists ' joy quite absent . |
| 3 | She greeted her son with a nod and relief that Bunty had lagged behind on the stairs , giggling with some others . |
| 4 | ’ He gave a sob , ‘ and she went rattling down the stairs to her room the way she always did and then I heard that awful sort of slither and Bunty 's scream … ’ |
| 5 | And flying up and down the stairs full of gin and nooky — no wonder she tripped and crashed all the way down . ’ |
| 6 | She gave him a little push and , in a daze , he followed Dorothy and one or two of the others up the stairs to the room that had been and still seemed to be Bunty 's . |
| 7 | The concrete was cold to his bottom , and he stared at the stairs down which Bunty had fallen , his throat and his face and his eyes seeming to swell up in a great hot surge of grief . |
| 8 | And all three of them made for the stairs . |
| 9 | But then he turned towards the stairs and his face went grim and cold . |
| 10 | I had nearly got to the front door when Father appeared at the top of the stairs . |
| 11 | He led Bill firmly to the baize door and down the stairs , never once looking back to see if he was being followed . |
| 12 | I said nothing , but turned away and walked as quickly as I could towards the stairs and down to the student canteen in the basement . |
| 13 | I climbed the stairs to Charles 's office . |
| 14 | I had just about reached the stairs , when suddenly a white door to my right burst open and a group of students tumbled out , shrieking with laughter . |
| 15 | I shook her off and staggered out of the office , down the stairs and into the lobby . |
| 16 | Will a stairlift obstruct the stairs ? |
| 17 | It will take up room on the stairs , so remember that the space left for other people using the stairs will be less . |
| 18 | It will take up room on the stairs , so remember that the space left for other people using the stairs will be less . |
| 19 | Will I need room at the top and bottom of the stairs ? |
| 20 | The chair has to come to rest at the bottom of the stairs and you need room to get on and off at both ends . |
| 21 | Finally the clock struck three , then four , finally Francis and Jamie lurched down the stairs arguing about how late the late night bars stayed open or had they got the energy to visit the Heath . |
| 22 | Sure enough Jay at ten past three in the morning flits down the stairs of the crumbling house in her pomegranate kimono , mad woman in search of photo , as if a photo could help her understand . |
| 23 | She lugs the most recent bag of trash back up the stairs , unties it , putrid stench , fermenting and ghastly like old fruit skins . |
| 24 | He remembered the descent down the stairs , the wintry sun reflecting off his mother 's stockings , the lines of cars outside the house . |
| 25 | Presumably the tool kit does still live in the cupboard under the stairs ? ’ |
| 26 | She climbed the stairs and peered into the room she had chosen for Rodney and herself . |
| 27 | All climbing up the stairs in one mad rush trying to get out of the hell-pit of the London Underground tunnels , after having escaped from the claustrophobic strangulating suffocating hold of the London Underground Tubes , marginally cleaner but less picturesque than those of New York . |
| 28 | I hesitated for a moment on the stairs , turned round and tried to look at some of them , to see if there was a familiar face , a suspicious or suspecting face , a face I could place , a face that could … |
| 29 | Normandy Beach , he repeats as he climbs the stairs . |
| 30 | Most rocker switches are wired for one-way operation — that is , the light is turned on and off from just the one position ; but most are capable of two-way operation , where the light is turned on or off from two places — in a through room , in a bedroom , or top and bottom of the stairs , for instance . |