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

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1 Peter had marched on down the hall .
2 At the end of the gallery the girl halted , gazing down into the hall through one of the archways cut into the wall .
3 He invited Patrick to sit down in the hall and took him in detail through events from the moment the car had stopped in front of the house .
4 She got down into the hall .
5 ‘ You are reluctant to go down to the hall , demoiselle ?
6 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 .
7 We crept down into the hall , through the kitchen and out by a small postern door .
8 It struck me as a trivial , but irritating error ; the dust-pan would have been conspicuous not only from the five ground-floor doorways opening on to the hall , but also from the staircase and the first-floor balconies .
9 Inside , the room is richly decorated with a fine scrolled plaster overmantel , dated 1572 , and a little musicians ' gallery which looks down into the hall through a row of arches set high up in the cornice .
10 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 .
11 It assured him of his right to be here and he picked it up and put it in his jacket pocket before walking through into the hall with its white doors leading to the reception rooms .
12 Panting breathlessly , she turned from the door and moved through to the hall , where Donna was trying to make her way down the stairs .
13 I remember driving up to the Hall one evening about three weeks before he died .
14 She twisted away from him and backed over to the door , and then cracked it open , and peered out into the hall .
15 When both together took a few slow hops down one of the runs near-by , Hazel followed and little by little they all three moved out of the hall .
16 Tonight it 's the story of his uncle and as he stands around in the hall , he talks about his Uncle Rocco who was stationed in Ipswich .
17 With an unhappy sigh , Mrs McMahon got out at the crossroads , and , feeling choked , Ellie drove on to the hall to drop off the suit , and collect her own luggage .
18 Within an hour his bed was moved down to the hall , so that everything was under his own eye .
19 They came down into the hall and heard a key in the lock .
20 In the middle of this pother of boots , brothers , and boisterous behaviour , Leonora Hussey came in from the hall , greeting her daughter and chiding her husband for being so late back .
21 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 .
22 You 're a fool , boy , ’ he said , and clumped off down the hall .
23 His overcoat and fur hat were neatly hung up in the hall and his overboots reposed on the boot tray in the back sunroom .
24 Taking a deep breath and straightening her slumping shoulders , she pushed open the back door of the colonel 's house , and as she saw the dim light from the lounge spilling out into the hall she walked in that direction .
25 As he came back into the hall , his face irregularly illuminated by its flame , she was overwhelmed by the dramatic beauty of his features .
26 Robins became senior staff nurse , the other staff nurses moved up one , and the senior student nurse in the A.R.R. Unit came back into the Hall as an acting staff nurse .
27 The crowd was surging out of the hall , we were carried along with it and I was worried about the baby in all this pushing and shoving , but did n't like to mention it in case William should feel he had to take care of me .
28 They drove back to the Hall , and Diane grilled a beefburger for Jed and put it on a bun .
29 Janet , tiptoeing out into the hall when Penman had opened the door , said that Aunt Emily was resting and would come down at tea-time .
30 I came out into the hall and … ’
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