Example sentences of "walked [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | As she walked down the wide stone steps to the ground floor her confusion was diverted by the sight of two men in their twenties , chatting together and keeping a watchful early evening eye over two three-year-olds playing hide and seek round the curve of the banisters . |
2 | He continued to talk thus now , as they walked down the grand vista , away from the formal gardens and into the woodland rides , where classical figures loomed from the undergrowth and the serpentine rill wound away towards a distant temple . |
3 | The man now walked down the central aisle and halted beside the projector , where he turned and spoke . |
4 | I mean , the only way you could do that would be if you had a till at one end and people bought whatever they wanted and were given a voucher and you walked down the other end and exchanged |
5 | I climbed the two flights of stairs and walked down the rickety balcony which led to Ellen 's small end room . |
6 | Graham and Slater walked down the narrow alley formed by the seedy , decaying stonework and the painted wood ; Graham saw the grimy glass of cracked windows ; fading political posters flapped in a slight breeze . |
7 | With a final searching look at the haunted image in the mirror she drew herself up with a deep breath and walked down the narrow passage to meet him . |
8 | As she walked down the crazy-pavement paths to the lily pond , Constance was struck by the blackbirds hopping around in the sun . |
9 | Chopra felt frightened as they walked up the narrow stairway to the battlements . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | And I said when I walked up the other day |
12 | Emily turned and walked up the wide staircase , looking painfully at the bare walls where paintings of her ancestors had hung for generations . |
13 | We walked up the wide stone steps . |
14 | They walked up the wide stone steps and into a small reception area . |
15 | We walked up the wooden passage . |
16 | We walked up the beaten trackway , slipping and cursing on the icy ground underfoot . |
17 | He left the Incident Room and walked up the steep alley to Lady Street , into the usual morning clutter of delivery vans and pedestrians . |
18 | They walked up the steep cliff path and checked the life-saving equipment and the box of emergency supplies . |
19 | 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 . |