Example sentences of "coming [prep] the stairs " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could hear them coming up the stairs right to our door and then shouting and hammering on it . |
| 2 | Unmistakably someone was coming up the stairs . |
| 3 | Going down again in search of more coffee , he met Mary coming up the stairs wearing Rufus 's jeans and a dirty T-shirt with Louisiana State University printed on it . |
| 4 | Sitting in this seamy room one evening waiting for the meeting to begin , I was startled by my friend exclaiming , ‘ My God , there 's a man coming up the stairs . ’ |
| 5 | Someone was coming up the stairs , treading quickly and lightly . |
| 6 | Quite soon I heard them coming up the stairs . |
| 7 | She heard the sound of voices coming up the stairs . |
| 8 | When , after an hour , she heard him coming up the stairs she pulled the sheets tightly around her , and then relaxed . |
| 9 | Corbett met him coming up the stairs . |
| 10 | Then , a few minutes later , as she climbed beneath the bedovers , propping herself against the pillows to read a chapter of her book , she heard footsteps coming up the stairs . |
| 11 | and Paul was coming up the stairs , I said is that the police , is that a police car ? |
| 12 | And once he had heard Sweetheart coming down the stairs , her high-heels ringing on the stone steps , and he had thrown the stolen food in Rosie 's corner in a panic . |
| 13 | As she could hear Jack coming down the stairs she returned to the kitchen and picked up the metal spoon and plunged it into the saucepan which she had not yet put on to heat . |
| 14 | The Prime Minister was coming down the stairs from the first floor flanked by Burke Trend , the Cabinet Secretary , William Armstrong , Head of the Home Civil Service , and Robert Armstrong , then his Principal Private Secretary — all three Treasury men . |
| 15 | He did not go towards the study door because his mother , coming down the stairs , called , ‘ Who was that … |
| 16 | I mean , pardon me , it 's not my habit , you understand , to pick up on other people 's phone conversations , I was just coming down the stairs here , I could n't — ‘ |
| 17 | In the gaslit passage , Joe saw the new lady lodger coming down the stairs , her hat and coat on . |
| 18 | Hepzibah was coming down the stairs . |
| 19 | I am sharp , Alice thought , coming down the stairs in the afternoon . |
| 20 | Coming down the stairs , Beth saw her husband emerge from Luther 's den . |
| 21 | She had no memory of closing the Lab door or coming down the stairs . |
| 22 | Inspector Blakelock was coming down the stairs , slowly and deliberately , the protagonist making his entrance . |
| 23 | But he said wait a minute I hear him coming down the stairs . |
| 24 | His woman was coming down the stairs in a blue candlewick dressing-gown and her hair in curlers . |
| 25 | Came quite deliberately , though as usual Hilda had made plenty of noise coming down the stairs to ensure that her presence was known . |
| 26 | I 'd have seen it if I 'd been coming down the stairs instead of in the lift . |
| 27 | When she entered the house Mrs Funnell was coming down the stairs . |
| 28 | He stood back and glimpsed a face at an upstair window so he knocked again and after a delay he heard someone coming down the stairs . |
| 29 | An aeroplane 's coming down the stairs ? |
| 30 | Bananas in pyjamas are coming down the stairs , bananas in pyjamas are coming down in pairs , bananas in pyjamas are chasing teddy bears , half of you will be alright to catch them on their way . |