Example sentences of "walk up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney . |
| 2 | I retrace my steps and walk up the righthand arm of the T , where the roadway is closed by a second set of iron gates . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to walk up the other valley too , ’ said Betty . |
| 4 | But it 's not okay to walk up the same street and see somebody using something else , obviously . |
| 5 | Chopra felt frightened as they walked up the narrow stairway to the battlements . |
| 6 | But they reached the house , or rather the road below , and when Adamus had paid the driver-no account was mentioned — they walked up the crumbling slope in the shadowed midday light , and came out among the wet green oaks , and the house appeared . |
| 7 | And I said when I walked up the other day |
| 8 | Emily turned and walked up the wide staircase , looking painfully at the bare walls where paintings of her ancestors had hung for generations . |
| 9 | We walked up the wide stone steps . |
| 10 | They walked up the wide stone steps and into a small reception area . |
| 11 | We walked up the wooden passage . |
| 12 | She walked up the same hill which d'Urberville had driven down so wildly that June day . |
| 13 | We walked up the beaten trackway , slipping and cursing on the icy ground underfoot . |
| 14 | He left the Incident Room and walked up the steep alley to Lady Street , into the usual morning clutter of delivery vans and pedestrians . |
| 15 | They walked up the steep cliff path and checked the life-saving equipment and the box of emergency supplies . |
| 16 | In my utter loneliness I had only one resource : several times I took the ferry to North Shields , and walked up the steep bank to a certain public lavatory beside a roaring pub . |
| 17 | They had walked up the worn stone staircase , arm in arm , with their beautiful girl child dancing around them . |
| 18 | When Patsy had walked up the short avenue and looked at the square house with its creeper and its shabby garden it seemed to her like a house on the front of a calendar . |
| 19 | I could hardly walk up the front door . |
| 20 | We were together all the time : played languid games of tennis on the court behind her house , swam , went on picnics , went for long walks up the lower slopes of Kinabalue , the mountain whose green and mauve shadowed mass loomed over Jesselton . |