Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] the stairs " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Beretta flew from her hand , bounced against the wall and skidded down the stairs . |
| 2 | Inside her head , Gilly packed the brown suitcase and crept down the stairs . |
| 3 | I put my clothes on , and crept down the stairs . |
| 4 | I pulled on a sweater and trousers and crept down the stairs in bare feet . |
| 5 | At five o'clock she returned to the theatre and crept up the stairs to the dressing-room . |
| 6 | As the door opened the thin sunlight raced into the dusty hall and sprinted up the stairs , never really reaching the top . |
| 7 | She turned and bounded up the stairs , slamming the door behind her . |
| 8 | As they disappeared towards the lift a stampede of policemen emerged from the library and thundered towards the stairs . |
| 9 | Donna sucked in a deep breath and headed for the stairs , intent on getting a clearer look at what was going on outside . |
| 10 | I slipped out of bed , got into a pair of jeans and a T-shirt and headed down the stairs . |
| 11 | Two trolls hurried through it , slammed it behind them , dropped the heavy bar across it and fled down the stairs . |
| 12 | I shook my head and trudged up the stairs . |
| 13 | Dad heard her and came down the stairs . |
| 14 | Marion Conroy was on stage until the final curtain calls and came up the stairs with the rest of the cast afterwards , observing as she did that Pepper went into his No. 2 and shut the door but that Cissy opened it and went in after him , the wide-eyed babyish stare that was the caricaturists ' joy quite absent . |
| 15 | The voice was female , Dublin , and came from the stairs to his left . |
| 16 | Just as though he had not been going to walk past into the kitchen , he wheeled , and pounded up the stairs in front of her . |
| 17 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 18 | When she 'd gone , we were bustled in and raced up the stairs . |
| 19 | He closed the door and turned towards the stairs . |
| 20 | We ran a Monday night dance for them , but sometimes they got drunk and would chase each other through the club , and one night one of them fell into the swimming pool and climbed up the stairs to sit on the end of Rachel 's bed ! |
| 21 | Laidlaw took another mouthful of beer then got to his feet and walked to the stairs at the end of the room . |
| 22 | He shook his head in wonder , and walked down the stairs to the hall , and out into the bright morning sunlight . |
| 23 | Then he turned on his heel and walked down the stairs . |
| 24 | Kopyion sighed and walked down the stairs . |
| 25 | The woman turned and walked up the stairs without replying , and for a moment , Lee stood undecided . |
| 26 | I just flourished an arm and clattered down the stairs . |
| 27 | I took one last , depressed look at myself in the mirror above the electric fire and clattered down the stairs . |
| 28 | Its stored sun-power fired through her , steadying her nerves ; she poured another shot and stumbled towards the stairs to her room . |
| 29 | His whole body cried out for his wife ; at the end , he rose before anyone , and stumbled to the stairs . |
| 30 | He picked up a walking-stick — or something — from the hall-stand , and leapt up the stairs to find his wife and Kemp in medio coitu , both of them completely naked . |