Example sentences of "steps to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I crossed behind her , and seized a pair of steps , used to reach the higher shelves ; I dragged the steps to the middle of the room , climbed them , swung myself up through the skylight by which the monster had entered . |
| 2 | He glanced at Tock then climbed slowly up the steps to the basket and sat down on the little seat provided . |
| 3 | We retrace our steps to the station , wait a while for the ferry to take us back to Folkestone . |
| 4 | ‘ What was that ? ’ asked Riley , endeavouring to keep up as the big man strode up the steps to the station concourse . |
| 5 | Willi plunged his hand back into the blooms and began to retrace his steps to the station car park . |
| 6 | In a dusty Victorian town hall in the East End of London , I stumbled down the steps to the exit , and left half of young , disaffected London dancing and laughing in rooms decked out like candy-striped pleasuredome marquees . |
| 7 | He gave me a final incredulous look before quickening his steps to the head of the column . |
| 8 | She reached the cliff and scrambled down the steps to the beach . |
| 9 | Charles was visibly limping as he negotiated the steps to the top . |
| 10 | LAURA WITH HER FIRST CHILD , JANE , BORN IN 1953 , OUTSIDE THE FRONT ENTRANCE 'S TO THEIR FLAT IN ST GEORGE 'S SQUARE , GATHERING ENERGY BEFORE MOUNTING THE NINETY-NINE STEPS TO THE TOP . |
| 11 | She had climbed the seventy-nine steps to the top of the tower and rested there beside the cupola . |
| 12 | Walk down the Bahnhofstrasse towards the lake , turn left when you come to the Rennweg , left again into the Fortunagasse , up the inevitable steps to the Lindenhof . |
| 13 | He rejected the crutches he was offered and gently remonstrated with HB chief Stappert who helped him , wounded- cowboy style , up the steps to the rostrum . |
| 14 | Sir Hans also helped with maintenance ; he gave the Society £100 to repair the steps to the river and was certainly instrumental in gaining another £100 from the College of Physicians . |
| 15 | Another iron gate , completing the quirescreen barricade , closing off the steps to the nave . |
| 16 | Wycliffe went up the steps to the verandah and peered through the window , but because of reflections it was not easy to see inside . |
| 17 | He reached the hut and climbed the two or three steps to the verandah . |
| 18 | Frankie got to his feet and tip-toed up the steps to the first-floor landing . |
| 19 | She had to take a walk down a short corridor from the main hallway , go down a few steps to the kitchen . |
| 20 | It was going dark by the time the shepherd and his son shed their ragged leather milking jackets and carried two buckets each up the stone steps to the kitchen , followed by the two carabinieri . |
| 21 | There , much to Dexter 's amazement , Blanche strode down some steps to the kitchen , where Beasley sat at a pine table nursing a glass of wine . |
| 22 | Hastily averting her eyes from the strong arched column of his tanned throat as he emptied his glass , she retraced her steps to the kitchen . |
| 23 | After my race I climbed the steps to the press interview room . |
| 24 | I retraced my steps to the square where Kennedy had been given the Freedom of the City ( an empty honour ) , and explored a network of narrow shopping streets . |
| 25 | Then , they climbed slowly up the wooden steps to the promenade and disappeared from sight . |
| 26 | He had to wait a quarter of an hour , but six or seven minutes after that he was climbing the weedy steps to the quay on the other side . |
| 27 | We all made our own way up the stone steps to the guardian 's hut , a recommended viewing point for the classic view over Machu Picchu 's maze of empty plazas , chambers , alleyways , and staircases carved out of solid rock . |
| 28 | The wound plagued an injured nerve for the last time as he took the few steps to the trapdoor under the beam . |
| 29 | He stuffs his pistol into the top of his trousers , tilts one of the two heavies back onto the rear chairlegs and drags him out the door , clumping down the steps to the gloom outside . |
| 30 | Walking the few steps to the dressing table , she picked it up . |