Example sentences of "[verb] walked [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can only guess at how Howard and Redwood must feel about taking over a department , only to find that one of their political opponents has walked off with the money . |
| 2 | I 'd walked up from the village under a brilliantly starry sky , breathing cold shafts of early-morning air , thinking of murder . |
| 3 | They sat around one end of the work table , which now seemed vast and empty , and Alina Peterson explained how she 'd walked down to the village to look around and , where it seemed appropriate , to introduce herself . |
| 4 | Having walked back to the cottage , she put the ladder against the wall , then tested it to make sure it was firm . |
| 5 | Toni gets to work ALEC GILROY may have walked out on the Rovers Return , but 16-year-old Toni Canning is more than ready to take over from Britain 's favourite landlord . |
| 6 | He would n't have walked out on the family . |
| 7 | This came in January 1991 , with the arrival on the scene of licensed engineer Bob Eatwell , who admits that if he had known of the multitude of technical and administrative problems that he faced , would have walked out of the Rochester workshop , into sanity ! |
| 8 | They had never met before , but as soon as Duroc was inside the Agency 's inner sanctum , the Chief Op looked up from his blondwood desk , flashed a monied piranha grin , and acted as if his visitor were an old college buddy who had happened to have walked in off the street . |
| 9 | The Prince and McPhee had walked on to the top of the bank and were standing looking down at the river . |
| 10 | That morning he had walked over to the Hoflin farm and asked Suzi to go to the cinema with him that evening , after her class . |
| 11 | Marjorie made a moue at Isobel , who had walked over to the cot in the far comer of the room and was standing in the same apparently relaxed but watchful posture she had displayed downstairs . |
| 12 | He had walked over to the lift and waited with her too , she recalled without effort , as Lubor walked to the lift with her and pressed the lift call button . |
| 13 | Then he remembered the time that he had walked in on the Politburo meeting and arrested Beria . |
| 14 | A taxi had dropped him and his luggage at the main railway station , he had walked in through the entrance with a porter in attendance ; and that was that . |
| 15 | Her heart had taken wing as she and Mandy had walked down into the lodge . |
| 16 | Instead , they drove south , down the western side of the estuary , to a pull-in at the end of a lane , whence Mossop and Heather had walked down to the river 's edge and taken the third photograph . |
| 17 | Bodie had walked back to the car , and sat quietly watching the propagandist book shop , and the still-talking forms of Latowa and the young man , now inside the premises . |
| 18 | When they had walked back to the car , his father had offered him one of the fish . |
| 19 | She had n't even known herself where she would be staying until she had walked out of the station the day before and asked a taxi-driver to take her somewhere clean and as cheap as possible . |
| 20 | Ahead of the voting 110 of the Supreme Soviet 's 450 deputies — members of the radical Democratic Bloc uniting the parliamentary groups from the nationalist Rukh organization , the Ukrainian Language Society and the new Republican Party ( founded on April 30 ) — had walked out of the chamber in protest at Ivashko 's candidacy , on the grounds that he was also currently the first secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party ( CP ) , and that the acting Speaker of the chamber had refused to read out a statement by the Democratic Bloc to the effect that combining state and party posts in this way was impermissible . |
| 21 | She had walked out of the corner-shop and set off on the primrose path , which led rapidly downhill . |
| 22 | Ashamed , confused , uncertain of her own identity , Rosie O'Dell had walked out of the house and never returned . |
| 23 | At this transparent piece of blackmail , he had walked out of the house . |
| 24 | The predominant rebel group , the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) headed by Charles Taylor , had walked out of the conference on March 27 . |
| 25 | I just started to hate the man , I do n't know what I would have done if I had walked out of the interview room and met him in the corridor . ’ |
| 26 | Lowell 's bit-on-the-side had walked out of the studio and left the canvas holdall containing her dress and beads behind . |
| 27 | It was ‘ a blatant bid for public sympathy ’ , according to the director Donald Driver , who had walked out on the production in protest at the way Dustin had taken over . |
| 28 | The defence lawyers had walked out on the grounds that the trial lacked procedural guarantees , and that the court , as a military one , had no jurisdiction . |
| 29 | In practice , if not in spirit , there is a complete divorce between the ground floor , full of people who have walked in off the street , and the upper floors , where research and development on both hardware and software for the Third World take place . |