Example sentences of "walked up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They walked up a grand staircase , first the minder , then Sylvie , then Alexei .
2 The whole operation was developing like a Grahame Greene novel as I walked up a dark country lane to the waiting car .
3 I walked up a small flight of steps to the red-tiled side colonnade .
4 The original entrance foyer on the main road behind the square was barred and boarded and papered over with layers of handbills ; Carson walked up a few steps near the end of the alley and pushed open the door of a tradesman 's entrance .
5 Chopra felt frightened as they walked up the narrow stairway to the battlements .
6 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 .
7 And I said when I walked up the other day
8 Emily turned and walked up the wide staircase , looking painfully at the bare walls where paintings of her ancestors had hung for generations .
9 We walked up the wide stone steps .
10 They walked up the wide stone steps and into a small reception area .
11 We walked up the wooden passage .
12 She walked up the same hill which d'Urberville had driven down so wildly that June day .
13 We walked up the beaten trackway , slipping and cursing on the icy ground underfoot .
14 He left the Incident Room and walked up the steep alley to Lady Street , into the usual morning clutter of delivery vans and pedestrians .
15 They walked up the steep cliff path and checked the life-saving equipment and the box of emergency supplies .
16 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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