Example sentences of "walk [adv] up the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He blinked his pale grey eyes , took a careless look around himself before walking smartly up the driveway to Roirbak 's complex , an array of wafer-thin data cards — the discerning burglar 's equivalent of a crowbar — ready to hand .
2 what by walking quickly up the kitchen and into the hall .
3 Then I started walking back up the field .
4 Doreen had walked out into the dark hall suddenly , and seen him walking back up the passage away from the kitchen door .
5 A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously .
6 They were walking steadily up the strath , past Castle Menzies , looking unreal in its composed beauty under early Sunday sunshine , past the close-built cottages and huts of Dull which looked like scree left by a spate , heaped-up boulders , shaggy heather thatch , dykes built recently with field stones and already falling down .
7 The organ started to play and Ianthe 's attention was diverted by the entry of the preacher , so that she did not notice John walking quietly up the aisle and slipping into the pew behind her .
8 I walk back up the steps and stand in the open doorway with the gun smoking by my side .
9 Later in the dusk I entertain a perplexed perfecto as I walk back up the hill to the castle , to Schloss Hartheim .
10 The ice-cream lady with the curly brown hair walked slowly up the aisle , her head turning this way and that in search of last-minute customers .
11 Juliet walked slowly up the wide , curving staircase .
12 ‘ I think your past is terribly romantic , ’ Madeleine said as they walked slowly up the staircase .
13 They walked slowly up the church path , past the old graves , those so seared by time and weather that they stood as grey shapes furred with lichen , names and dates no longer legible , uniform in obscurity .
14 She held my hand and we walked slowly up the yard .
15 He turned and walked slowly up the avenue .
16 Irish draft with a trace of Cleveland , thought Julia watching the selfish , handsome head as he surveyed the box without fear and walked calmly up the ramp beside Theodora into the left-hand stall .
17 Left by the kitchen door at the rear of the house , walked cautiously up the back alley and quickly worked my way through a maze of quiet back streets thinking about it .
18 Philip walked back up the ride not turning round till he got to his hide .
19 He walked back up the side of the 14th to meet the match of Caballeros and Bugner .
20 We walked back up the track .
21 The constable walked back up the stairs , shaking his head .
22 ‘ We 'd simply walk straight up the wall of your house . ’
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