Example sentences of "steps [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is our little guest cottage , ’ she announced as they mounted some steps on to a wide , spacious veranda which ran the length of the property . |
| 2 | He motioned Karlinsky forward and with a generous flourish directed him up the three steps on to the small platform in front of the Ark of the Law where a lectern had been placed . |
| 3 | She took a couple of steps on to the damp surface , lost her balance and collapsed to her knees . |
| 4 | Just inside the door were two steps down to a small living room about ten feet square , behind this was a tiny scullery and the houses had two small bedrooms upstairs . |
| 5 | To reach the sea below guests can take the lift , footpath and flight of 177 steps down to a small private beach . |
| 6 | Here no conversion had been done to the wretched little room , once a scullery , with two steps down to a small yard stacked high with rubbish . |
| 7 | There is limited parking at Belle Vue ( SE343197 ) beside the Calder & Hebble Navigation ( April 84 guide ) which ends at Fall Ing Lock , below which are a flight of steps down to a convenient platform . |
| 8 | Such round , smooth shapes are the perfect foil to the railway sleepers that are used as informal steps down to the lowest level of all , a curved brick paved sitting area that looks back up towards the house . |
| 9 | Mary smiled as she negotiated the three awkward steps down to the sunken floor of the huge kitchen . |
| 10 | The flight was only about ten steps down to the next landing , and though he felt bruised all over , and shocked , nothing seemed to be broken . |
| 11 | We carried on for a few more yards , then retraced our steps down to the main level and back out into the sunshine . |
| 12 | The kitchen is thus three steps down from the living-room floor level and is paved with the same material — York stone slabs approximately 60mm ( 2–1/2in ) thick , below which a low-pressure piped hot water central-heating system is installed . |
| 13 | From the Roman Forum , once the city 's most important political and social centre , to the Colosseum , perhaps the city 's best known monument , to the soaring Baroque dome of St-Peter 's and the Vatican city with its superb collection of paintings and sculptures , to the Trevi Fountains and the Spanish steps through to the twentieth century Victor-Emmanuel monument built to commemorate the unity of Italy — the list is endless and no amount of reading about the Eternal City can substitute a visit there as Rome speaks for herself . |
| 14 | The range starts at 47ft ( 14.3m ) and steps up to a staggering 110ft ( 33.5m ) . |
| 15 | Dizzily entranced by the yellow novelty , I floated free as wood smoke and fluttered around the noisy house , while my anaesthetised feet padded cement steps up to the front door . |
| 16 | There were two or three granite steps up to the front door which had a grubby ‘ Closed ’ notice hung behind its glass panel ; no bell , and no other door . |
| 17 | Besides , she was ultimately responsible to Liz for the twins ' welfare , Laura firmly reminded herself as they mounted the wide steps up to the front door of Lady Wyndham 's house . |
| 18 | But Luke was already climbing the stone steps up to the arched front door , and Folly 's question went unheard . |
| 19 | There were six steps up to the tiny stage , Gary would be playing the intro , and with each of the steps Madame would say a woman 's name , fingering one of the rings . |
| 20 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 21 | LOOKING like he is appearing in some designer-conscious jeans advert , Nicholas Cage steps out of a big white gas guzzler on a sun-baked road in Wyoming . |
| 22 | I 've seen the movie , too — Rainbow and I watched it together , in Hampstead , on an Old Weepies double bill : the ageless heroine walks two steps out of the enchanted valley of Shangri-La and time 's ravages hit her all at once . |
| 23 | Occasionally , character steps out of the angular interlocking patterns to hold a bowl or pour from a jug . |
| 24 | and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out . |