Example sentences of "up the [adj] staircase " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julia incredulously heard the Archdeacon say to the Dean , the tone , which was mellifluous , floating up the elegant staircase . |
| 2 | I listened to her footsteps cross the hall and start up the great staircase , then proceeded to the doorway myself . |
| 3 | It was Mama , though , who wore it in the painting halfway up the great staircase — so that all who passed by could see it and admire . |
| 4 | Corbett bowed , withdrew , and spent the rest of the time kicking his heels in an antechamber before a servant imperiously summoned him up the great staircase and ushered him into a brilliantly decorated room . |
| 5 | Emily turned and walked up the wide staircase , looking painfully at the bare walls where paintings of her ancestors had hung for generations . |
| 6 | She glanced up the wide staircase . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Lee , the helmet once more on his head , went up the dark staircase . |
| 9 | The man turns and trots away from me up the right-hand staircase from the mezzanine to the station platform . |
| 10 | His hostess was beginning to wilt as she greeted the guests who , by now , were queuing half-way up the grand staircase . |
| 11 | In a thousand remote little farmhouses and cottages , islanded beneath wind-shriven willows or leaning poplars , the racing floods covered the black fields , overflowed the straight dykes … and leaping upon those lonely homes with all the relentless force of wind and gales , burst open the doors , shattered the ground floor windows … and rushed gurgling and swirling up the narrow staircase . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Ebenezer was dimly aware that he was being carried up the narrow staircase . |
| 14 | He scampered up the outer staircase and disappeared into the hall . |
| 15 | The oil lamp beside his bed had been extinguished , and when I saw my father glance disapprovingly at the lamp I had brought to guide me up the rickety staircase , I quickly lowered the wick . |
| 16 | Then Julius closed the door again and started up the winding staircase nearby . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They walked slowly up the broad staircase , Alec holding the oil-lamp a little above his head . |
| 19 | We wandered up the darkened staircase back to our chamber . |
| 20 | Philip followed them up the open staircase and into the woman 's bedroom . |
| 21 | It was all too clear Auguste had been out enjoying the pleasures of Broadstairs , one of which was just disappearing up the main staircase , folding up her parasol . |
| 22 | This time a tour guide at Althorp saw ‘ the ghost of an old man ’ going up the main staircase . |
| 23 | He led Anna back up the gaunt staircase to the dining-room Mr Mulgrove had shown her when she came for interview . |