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 .
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