Example sentences of "stairs to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have a vivid memory of her descending the stairs to the conservatory where we said our vows . |
| 2 | The night stairs to the cloister remain in the transept . |
| 3 | Mulling over these gloomy thoughts , he climbed the stairs to the gallery where Tammuz' office and labs were and the corridor which led to the rooms he and Zambia had as living quarters . |
| 4 | ‘ Between the stairs to the gallery , we had to cross the floor by about ten feet , ’ said Winner . |
| 5 | Quinn was racing down the three flights of stairs to the lobby-level . |
| 6 | When she left the centre a good hour later it was to find dozens of people in little groups strolling around the factory floor and climbing the stairs to the jig platforms . |
| 7 | He shook his head in wonder , and walked down the stairs to the hall , and out into the bright morning sunlight . |
| 8 | It rolls down the stairs to the floor below . |
| 9 | ‘ Well done , Percy , old boy ! ’ he would call out to Percy Harvey , who would grin and pass quickly up the stairs to the Music Library with his scores . |
| 10 | Léonie ran up the stairs to the grenier and reappeared holding a basket of plums . |
| 11 | Stairs to the south lead up to a gallery which runs around the room above the level of the archways ( some 16 feet up ) , with a door visible on the north side . |
| 12 | I ran up the broad stairs to the first-floor landing , where our only phone is . |
| 13 | A notice informed the public that this was the deepest Underground station in London , three hundred stairs to the bottom . |
| 14 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 15 | She fled up stairs to the bathroom . |
| 16 | bother I 've ever had with him , and he goes on to it and away he goes and he 'll come back in the house and he 'll go up the stairs to the computer , and that 's his life . |
| 17 | She rushed up the stairs to the top of the house where she knew her brother 's room was before Nick had a chance to show her the way . |
| 18 | But he dismissed such gloomy thoughts as he followed Angelina in full-skirted blue walking dress up the stairs to the top of the keep , and duly admired the magnificent view . |
| 19 | He slept well that night , getting up early to climb the wet , mildewed stairs to the top of the church tower where he saw the stars clear in the skies , studying their alignment before they faded with the dawn . |
| 20 | But as she hurried up the stairs to the sanctuary of her bedroom , what filled her mind was the stark , appalling thought of the treachery she had so nearly perpetrated on herself . |
| 21 | Charles turned towards the Green Room door and the stairs to the dressing rooms . |
| 22 | He let his mind wander down the twenty yards of landing and the three stairs to the back bedroom where his sixteen-year-old daughter lay . |
| 23 | It was midnight when Ludovico and Constance finally climbed the stairs to the apartment . |
| 24 | As they went up the stairs to the apartment on the first floor of the block , he gripped Davide by the arm , and said , ‘ For God 's sake , and for your children 's , do n't touch the case . |
| 25 | It was a place where nappies could be changed , bottles heated and babies fed , without the necessity of running up and down stairs to the kitchen . |
| 26 | Secure in the knowledge that his mother would be fully occupied for the rest of the evening and the butler would be busy introducing the guests , Patrick pulled off his dressing down and slipped down the back stairs to the kitchen . |
| 27 | As soon as she got into the house , Molly ran up the stone stairs to the kitchen tap before she switched on the light . |
| 28 | The father and daughter went slowly down the dark , narrow stairs to the kitchen . |
| 29 | He pushed through a regulation fire door and found himself in a narrow passageway that ran along by the stairs to the kitchen . |
| 30 | Wrapping herself in the pink kimono hanging on the back of the bedroom door , she went softly down the stairs to the kitchen . |