Example sentences of "be come [prep] the stairs " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Bananas in pyjamas are coming down the stairs , bananas in pyjamas are coming down in pairs , bananas in pyjamas |
| 4 | I 'd have seen it if I 'd been coming down the stairs instead of in the lift . |
| 5 | An aeroplane 's coming down the stairs ? |
| 6 | Linda , doing some good spit and polish work , said , ‘ I fink Sergeant Joe 's comin' up the stairs . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Hepzibah was coming down the stairs . |
| 9 | Inspector Blakelock was coming down the stairs , slowly and deliberately , the protagonist making his entrance . |
| 10 | His woman was coming down the stairs in a blue candlewick dressing-gown and her hair in curlers . |
| 11 | When she entered the house Mrs Funnell was coming down the stairs . |
| 12 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 13 | Unmistakably someone was coming up the stairs . |
| 14 | Someone was coming up the stairs , treading quickly and lightly . |
| 15 | and Paul was coming up the stairs , I said is that the police , is that a police car ? |