Example sentences of "have stepped [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But first priority for the pool fraternity is to elect a new men 's team manager to replace Trevor Harte who has stepped up to Association chairman . |
| 2 | This is where the Arts Council has stepped in with the argument that if the scheme promotes a form of art which does not conform to their qualitative criteria , it should be abolished . |
| 3 | Vegetarianism has stepped out of its sandals and into the smartest restaurants . |
| 4 | THE UNITED States has stepped smartly into the lead in research into the safety of nuclear reactors , following the death of Europe 's Super-SARA project earlier this month . |
| 5 | The moon has stepped back like an artist gazing amazed at a work |
| 6 | The assiduous Cyril Cooper has stepped down as General Secretary to become vice-chairman and was recently honoured at a special lunch at Lord 's . |
| 7 | Mrs Jean Storrow has stepped down as secretary of the Ryedale branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England after 15 years . |
| 8 | Rice , a controversial omission from South Africa 's World Cup team , has stepped down after 10 years as Transvaal 's captain to take up a position as a TV commentator during the competition . |
| 9 | He could remember the first time that he 'd stepped outside into country darkness and closed the door behind him ; it was as if he 'd been struck blind with the click of the latch , and he 'd begun to panic at his inability even to tell which way was up . |
| 10 | Once she 'd stepped on to the platform , there was nothing to do but turn , step , step , turn and nowhere to look but straight ahead . |
| 11 | He 'd stepped out of the house at noon believing the woman he 'd left was devoted to him , and come home five hours later to find the house as it was now . |
| 12 | Around the inner walls the Annamese soldiers of the imperial guard , who looked as if they 'd stepped out of the pages of one of his adventure-story books , stood sentinel with their muskets . |
| 13 | By the time that he 'd stepped out of the kitchen and into the main hall , he 'd lost her . |
| 14 | It was mostly soft grass and woodchips here , and she 'd stepped out of her shoes and was now carrying them , walking barefoot . |
| 15 | Bewildered , she felt as if she 'd stepped back into a dark cave and was falling into the unknown . |
| 16 | Reality , in the form of banality , seemed very precious to Anna , a token of having stepped out of a nightmare into the sanity of the waking world . |
| 17 | In fact once inside the Park , one had the definite impression of having stepped back into the past . |
| 18 | After that he could easily have stepped straight into at least two teams , but he decided to wait until after he had completed his business studies course . |
| 19 | In striking contrast , both girls were immaculately clad : dressed in white blouses and white skirts , they could have stepped straight from the pages of Vogue . |
| 20 | It was bobbing up and down from the wash of a smart motorboat which had swept by , filled with haughty-looking Venetians with faces so medieval that they could have stepped straight from the history books . |
| 21 | He said afterwards that , if he had n't done that , he would never again have stepped even on a carpet . ’ |
| 22 | The prosecution argues that Mr Lorenzo was in no danger and could have stepped out of harm 's way . |
| 23 | Indeed , they might have stepped out of a mid-period Patrick White novel . |
| 24 | THE POLICEWOMAN who cracked the Ashdown case could have stepped out of the award-winning TV drama Prime Suspect . |
| 25 | Dressed in well-cut silver-grey trousers and a pale green shirt , open at the neck , a grey jacket slung casually over one shoulder , he could have stepped out of every woman 's dream . |
| 26 | She was a slim blonde girl in her twenties who might have stepped out of a fashion advertisement in a women 's magazine . |
| 27 | He might have stepped out of John Osborne 's The Entertainer . |
| 28 | She was smiling , she knew ; oh , this was the opposite of " her look " , when she felt like this , as if she 'd drunk an extra-fine distilled essence of danger , and could have stepped out among the stars or run thirty miles . |
| 29 | With his low-crowned hat and antiquated clerical costume , his broad scholarship and unenthusiastic divinity , his uncompromising insistence on ancient rights ( especially in chapter ) , his belief that land and ‘ the funds ’ were the only proper investment for the college and industrial shares a new form of the South Sea Bubble , he seemed to have stepped out of the eighteenth century . |
| 30 | Whether El Cid acted in a position of arbiter , as Ferdinand had intended , is not known ; he seems to have stepped aside from the almost continuous wrangling of the brothers . |