Example sentences of "the [adj] staircase [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man turns and trots away from me up the right-hand staircase from the mezzanine to the station platform . |
| 2 | James Rutherford , first thing after he had closed the door behind him , took a tumbler of malt whisky up the narrow staircase to his wife . |
| 3 | Later , in the chapel adjoining the castle , Father Jerome said Benediction and prayed for Sara and the life that lay before her ; and then she went up the narrow staircase to her bed and , when Candida had helped her to undress , stood a while longer at her window , looking through the narrow slit at the lights in the harbour and the dark , massive mountains behind . |
| 4 | Still , as she made her way up the narrow staircase to the agency office at five minutes to ten , it was hard to contain her excitement . |
| 5 | When her aunt was dressed she walked slowly down the narrow staircase in front of her in case , in her weak state , she should stumble . |
| 6 | Becky led her partner up the wooden staircase to the first floor and began a guided tour . |
| 7 | Stealthily he slipped down the deserted staircase past the second and third floors without mishap . |
| 8 | He climbed up the outside staircase past the fountains surrounded by black-veiled women filling their pots with water and out on to the little parapeted promenade which crowned the second storey . |
| 9 | Although at Grange Park Samwell did not introduce the Imperial staircase of three open flights to England , there is little doubt that his was grander than its precursor at Gunnersbury by John Webb [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | The earliest visitors 23,000 a day-were advised to eschew the winding staircase of 1792 steps ( corresponding to the year of the Proclamation of the Republic ) . |
| 11 | The guards were above us and we always had good warning of their approach down the little staircase to the iron door . |
| 12 | He led Anna back up the gaunt staircase to the dining-room Mr Mulgrove had shown her when she came for interview . |
| 13 | With his two daughters , one holding each hand , he came down the long staircase from the top-floor flat . |
| 14 | ‘ So I 've noticed , ’ said Meredith , and he pushed past him impatiently and ran down the grand staircase in search of Bunny . |
| 15 | Turning her back on Maman 's room , and Dada 's dressing room , she crossed the pavilion-like hallway — useful only to light the double staircase through its long floor-to-ceiling window . |
| 16 | At seven on the Saturday night of the prêt-à-porter showings , I make my way up the mirrored staircase in Chanel 's couture house in the rue Cambon . |
| 17 | Then Miguel led the way up the rickety staircase to the restaurant , where , at a click of his fingers , they were supplied with a plate of olives and a jug of deep red Sangria . |
| 18 | Though it is the only staircase in the house , so hard is the wood that 450 years of treading have worn no hollows in the steps … |
| 19 | Just before the neo-Gothic staircase to Charles Bridge , on your left is a palace ( 1/498 ) designed by Bartolomeo Scotti in 1732 and originally built in 1604 by the pharmacist Jan Jiří Dyrynk of Rottenberg , the mayor of Malá Strana . |
| 20 | She heard him picking his way carefully down the spiral staircase at the back of the tenement and stood by the window , looking down into the street . |
| 21 | Mildred squeezed through the gap and set off as fast as possible along the corridor and down the spiral staircase to the yard . |
| 22 | I am back in the little room at the top of the spiral staircase on Wednesday morning and I am sitting on the Squeez-Ee box , with the minute in front of me , going through the remaining contents of the Quaker Oats archive , page by dusty page . |
| 23 | Plectra I break as I reach the bottom of the spiral staircase on my way back to my little garret . |
| 24 | Drawing her to her feet , he led her up the wide staircase to a comfortable oak-panelled bedroom which overlooked the eucalyptus trees in the garden . |
| 25 | Here , too , was the door to the cellar , that awful place dropping beneath the main staircase into the very bowels of the house . |
| 26 | Lastly they went down the main staircase to the Director s office . |
| 27 | Others featured individually are the young Hamburg artist Wolfgang Strack , who uses the language of comic strips and will be giving his own version of the art of the last thirty years in the Hauptmann-Schule building ; and the American Max Neuhaus , who will be exhibiting on the main staircase of the AOK , a building erected in the 1950s and recently listed as being of architectural interest . |
| 28 | Huxley , the exponent of laboratory physiology , won a great victory over Owen when he contrived to get a statue of Darwin placed on the main staircase of the Natural History Museum ; but justice has been done with the passage of time , and Owen 's statue is now in pride of place in his building . |