Example sentences of "up a flight [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was dim and pleasantly cool inside the palazzo as the housekeeper led the way along a bare passage , past what seemed to be mainly old kitchens and store-rooms , and up a flight of stone steps . |
| 2 | Down a little tunnel at the Mesdag museum , up a flight of stairs , and you are standing atop a dune looking at an enormous 360-degree panorama painted in 1881 . |
| 3 | We followed him in silence up a flight of stairs to a corridor too dark for eyes to pick out its furthest point . |
| 4 | She led the way up a flight of stairs , shouting a greeting as they passed the entrance to the ball-scryer 's receiving room on the ground floor . |
| 5 | Then you turned thirty , started to nod off at ten-thirty and had attacks of the Blue Spots when you ran up a flight of stairs . |
| 6 | Is n't it good to know you can sprint effortlessly for a bus , you can run up a flight of stairs without your heart thumping ? |
| 7 | Sex is the favourite topic : among the many symbols of sex are serpents , swords , running up a flight of stairs , swimming , flying … |
| 8 | He swept along the corridor and up a flight of stairs with the Englishman at his heels . |
| 9 | Cobalt and the white-haired woman were halfway up a flight of stairs . |
| 10 | When it has gone completely , I venture up a flight of stairs in my bare feet to the phone box . |
| 11 | What I 'm looking for is a locked , unmarked door on the fourth floor up a flight of stairs . |
| 12 | I walk up a flight of steps , carpeted with discarded copies of a give-away magazine called Ms London , into Waterloo railway station . |
| 13 | It had three big windows with iron doors and white walls and you used to go into the house up a flight of steps because there were shops underneath . |
| 14 | I knew that she would be feeling timid , and it was rather a climb in any case : comforting for her to come up a flight of steps passing a trellis of gloriously flowering wistaria . |
| 15 | He made his way along a footpath flanked by spacious lawns and spectacularly colourful flowerbeds … rumoured to contain plastic flowers to ensure a year-round display … , up a flight of steps and through the double doors of the tri-star-shaped glass and aluminium building . |
| 16 | The east end ( 305 ) is tri-apsidal , there is a square tower with cupola , which has Byzantine type coloured ceramic tiling , and the west façade has a fine portico , approached up a flight of steps ( 388 ) . |
| 17 | Fabia climbed up a flight of steps with Lubor into the timbered , red-and-white-check-curtain-windowed building , and they were shown to a table . |