Example sentences of "they walked [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 They walked downstairs into a big room .
2 Julia took up the assembled bridle and they walked outside into the early evening sun .
3 They had reached Bermondsey Market and they walked slowly along the line of stalls .
4 He took her hand as they walked slowly along the cliff edge , and a feeling of peace and security swept over her .
5 When they arrived , they walked slowly through the graveyard .
6 They walked slowly to the front door .
7 They walked away from the lamp-post and the speckled tree .
8 They walked away from the shop , across the broad sloping pavement to where their area car was hitched up with two wheels off the road , hazards flashing .
9 They walked away from the vicarage in silence .
10 Seb was still angry as they walked away from the Swan Inn , retracing their footsteps through the village .
11 They walked away from the front past a late-night shopping complex where a tipsy David bought Hyacinth several small presents .
12 The camera was set up to cover the interior of the store , and the images of the men , filmed as they walked past on the pavement outside , are not clear .
13 She was fleetingly reminded of Shildon insisting they walked singly into the newsroom so no one should know they had been talking together .
14 He did n't touch her as they walked casually up the winding road to the high point .
15 They walked briskly into the block of flats and took the lift to the eighth floor .
16 Even in the twenty minutes it had taken to get some nourishment , the light had faded and the dull day was darkening into a cold night ; the beginnings of a frost crackled under their feet as they walked briskly along the embankment .
17 They walked briskly to the mortuary , and were told to go into Burney 's inner sanctum .
18 They walked daily on the cliffs and shore .
19 All were transfixed by this group of laughing and exultant lesbians as they walked resolutely towards the rocky promontory stripping off their clothes with Amazonian brazenness .
20 The young man , who is now 23 years old , was only 16 when a car ploughed into him and a couple of friends as they walked home from a party .
21 As they walked uphill from the spa , beneath the shade of chestnut trees and beside a crystal-clear stream , Thomas did not flag .
22 They walked regardless of the weather : on early spring mornings when the sky was remote and pale as a plover 's egg ; on stormy autumn afternoons when they felt they could reach up and touch the lowering clouds that covered the land like a bruise ; and on frozen winter days when the sky was a white membrane stretched so tight that they could imagine it cracking with the cold .
23 Joe Asnett looked up as they walked unsteadily into the small flagstone floored back room .
24 Tam paid for the drinks and they walked across to a table by the door .
25 The moon was high above them as they walked cautiously through the dark forest and the pale , eerie light lay across the woodland path , cold and unfriendly .
26 They walked together towards the street , her body heavy but her heart lighter than when she had come .
27 Rohan parked the car under some trees just outside the main wall , then they walked together through an arched gateway , and up the shaded street , passing between tall houses , their windows firmly shuttered against the intrusive sun , intermingled with shops .
28 They walked together through the trellis arch into the back garden .
29 As they walked together through the hall , she was about to speak to him ( such a gift , some£thing must be said … ) , but before she could do so , he said , his voice hard , displeased :
30 With a few words of explanation Sophie made the introduction and as they walked together into the house her godmother said , ‘ I 'm afraid I 've got some news which wo n't please you , but first of all I want to hear yours . ’
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