Example sentences of "walked [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dinah learnt the lines , was laced into the vulgar striped dress the part required , which had stains under the arms from the young lady off sick , was heavily rouged and had her eyebrows blackened , and walked on to the boards to the flare of gaslight and the outline of gentlemen in bowler hats they had not troubled to remove , refreshing themselves at the bar which stood at the back of the theatre . |
| 2 | I bade Jamie and his mother goodnight and walked on through the outskirts of town to the track heading for the island , then down the track in blackness , sometimes using my small torch , towards the bridge and the house . |
| 3 | They walked on behind the others . |
| 4 | He entered the station and walked down towards the trains , kilt swinging , leaflets tucked beneath his jacket . |
| 5 | After tea we walked down through the remains of the garden . |
| 6 | He saw from the look that crossed Tuathal 's face that he was understood , even before he himself tossed someone his reins and , dismounting , walked down through the men , rallying them ; stopping to talk to the wounded ; lifting from the food-baskets some bread and a piece of mutton in passing . |
| 7 | Ben was saying the other day that soon they would drop out as I walked down to the shops ! ’ |
| 8 | We walked along beside the wheels until the end of the train was in sight and finally walked past the dining car and at the end of it swung upwards through its rear door into the scene of operations . |
| 9 | ‘ Last year , ’ said Kāli , as we walked along behind the houses , ‘ Mother and one or two other women started before the forest was officially opened — before ban pasāi — and people were so angry that they made the women 's husbands go to the headman and pay a fine of five rupees each . ’ |
| 10 | She walked along by the shops , and stopped when she came to a door with ‘ Madame Eloise — Hair ’ on it . |
| 11 | It was two minutes past midnight when he walked through into the Chapters Bar , where a dozen or so late-night ( early-morning ) drinkers were still happily signing bills . |
| 12 | The Doctor stood and walked over to the women . |
| 13 | Kopyion walked over to the screens . |
| 14 | Wycliffe walked over to the bookshelves . |
| 15 | He put on his glasses , walked over to the windows , and peered closely at the titles of the books . |
| 16 | Pete walked over to the steps . |
| 17 | From there he walked over to the lifts with her . |
| 18 | Cara had attended the Dallam wedding mainly to annoy Miss Ernestine Baker and , having thoroughly annoyed her , had suddenly lost heart and walked off among the gravestones to contemplate what she was coming to recognize as the end of another rainbow . |
| 19 | Deciding she was crazy , she made her way back to her room , collected her things and was just about to leave when a man carrying a young boy walked up to the doors . |
| 20 | That lunchtime we walked up to the shops . |
| 21 | I walked up from the woods with him , came |
| 22 | I walked out on the moors behind the house . |
| 23 | In the event , Israel walked out of the talks on the first day in protest at the presence of the head of the Palestinian delegation , Mohammed Hallaj , director of the Washington-based Centre for Policy Analysis on Palestine and a former member of the Palestine National Council ( PNC — the Palestinian " parliament-in-exile " ) . |
| 24 | I knew Granpa wanted me to stay on at school and improve my readin' and writin' , but on the last Friday of term in December 1913 I walked out of the gates of Jubilee Street Elementary , with my father 's blessing . |
| 25 | Joe walked out of the offices into the thick driving snow . |
| 26 | I also duped a few stupid coventry fans into thinking I was a new signing as i walked out of the officials entrance after the match … did about 8 or 9 autographs : - ) ) ) |
| 27 | Some of the Dutch civilian internees walked out of the camps which had been their prisons for three-and-a-half years , despite instructions to stay inside . |
| 28 | We walked out into the doldrums of early evening . |
| 29 | They walked back towards the houses , the clownish little man and the thin child — watching him , Nick thought he looked thinner than he had done a month ago . |
| 30 | Slowly she walked back towards the gates of the Hall . |