(1) I’ve got it downstairs on tape.” We followed her to the TV room.
(2) You want to explore the darker things in life – death is a part of life, sadness is a part of life - but we don’t ever want to be morose.” Later on, Phil comes back downstairs.
(3) Downstairs I had black coffee, kippers, and brown toast in the breakfast room.
(4) She charges £65 a week for the downstairs room in the four-bedroom bungalow she shares with her sister.
(5) Five feet of water filled his kitchen and downstairs in the building that also houses his architectural practice, Red Raven Design.
(6) Our attitude was like Mr T and Rocky downstairs in the basement listening to a radio with a hanger sticking out of it doing push-ups.
(7) Rather than open downstairs and piss off the council, I decided to take it more slowly,” he says.
(8) Downstairs in the shopping centre I find Blossom and Nick, a rather eccentric pair who met 12 years ago in a queue for The Wright Stuff and quickly became engaged.
(9) "We heard the commotion downstairs, but they weren't the kind of family to scream and yell," she says.
(10) "We are currently repainting the flat in anticipation of great guests, new members of the extended family and anyone else we can get to flog the tat from Dad's shop downstairs.
(11) In my locker downstairs, my (Elizabeth David-approved) lunchtime sandwich of prosciutto and brie patiently awaited my return, but even so, it was a dispiriting business.
(12) As Petra, another member of the team, finishes mopping the floors, and Andrew, the shift manager, cashes up the tills in the office downstairs, I slump on to a bar stool, knackered.
(13) When his best man sent an invite on Facebook, he assumed that everyone had seen it and we ended up with that panic phone call, a sprint downstairs and a mad dash (all within legal speed limits, of course) down the M3.
(14) I had always been a big Romola Garai fan, now I was a diehard groupie, as were my friends, everyone tweeting about how much they loved this woman with the downstairs wound, whether they knew who she was or not.
(15) Mum came downstairs and asked me what was wrong – and it all came out – literally.
(16) It was found a significant statistical difference (p < 0.05) between the two groups concerning the age of evaluation, beginning of symptoms, difficulty in walking, running, climbing and going downstairs, frequent falling down, support to walk, localized muscle pain, stopping climb stairs, and inability to walk.
(17) The BBC1 drama – penned by Cranford and Upstairs, Downstairs writer Heidi Thomas – will delve into tales of life and midwifery in London's East End in the 1950s.
(18) On the day she died I came downstairs and she couldn’t breathe properly so I phoned the ambulance, who said if she gets worse call us back.
(19) The drawing-room downstairs is known as Mrs O'Shea's room.
(20) He explains that, as a resident of the first mezzanine, I am not permitted to walk downstairs and potentially bother the A-list.
Stair
Definition:
(n.) One step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building.
(n.) A series of steps, as for passing from one story of a house to another; -- commonly used in the plural; but originally used in the singular only.
Example Sentences:
(1) The energey expenditure during coitus for long-married couples is equivalent to that of climbing stairs, and consequently the risk of heart attack is low.
(2) The data suggest that throughout most of the gait cycle and normal stair climbing, the passive structures contribute a small portion of the total moment, usually well less than 10%.
(3) They went down the stairs and gathered on the hot tarmac.
(4) The 30-year-old, whose airway had been so damaged by TB she was gasping for breath on the stairs, told Professor Paolo Macchiarini she had been dancing all night in a club in Ibiza.
(5) Gait of 11 patients with bilateral paired posterior cruciate-retaining and cruciate-sacrificing total knee arthroplasties (TKA) was studied preoperatively and two years postoperatively on walking and stair climbing.
(6) After more than a quarter of a century of camping out, the house, with its seven flights of stairs (a trial to Lessing in her final years), seemed almost to be supported by a precarious interior scaffolding of piles of books and shelves.
(7) Twelve male subjects, aged 18-22 years, performed a stair run test, a standing broad jump and the Wingate Anaerobic Test on twelve separate occasions.
(8) For years a small army of therapists has worked in the shadows to help older people stay in their own homes – fitting stair rails, ordering hoists, measuring ramps and offering support vital to rehabilitation.
(9) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
(10) The maximum hip and knee joint load moments induced during cycling were small compared with those obtained during other exercises or normal activities such as level walking, stair climbing, and lifting.
(11) Stair ascending with equal load in both hands did not produce any appreciable difference between the two groups.
(12) The air flow and the concentration of microorganisms have been measured in the stair shaft of a hospital.
(13) He took Jessica's mobile out of her pocket; he carried their bodies down the stairs and, after checking no one was around, bundled them into the cramped boot of his car, bending their legs to fit them in; he collected petrol and bin bags (to protect his feet and thus conceal evidence); he drove to Lakenheath and found a lonely track; he got out where the vegetation grew thickly and he rolled the two girls down into the ditch; he climbed into the ditch and cut off their clothing - their red football shirts and their tracksuit trousers, their knickers, Holly's black bra which she and her mother had bought the day before - and then he poured petrol over their bodies and threw on a match.
(14) The flexion range, stability, and capacity to climb stairs normally were significantly better in the knees where both posterior and anterior cruciate ligaments were preserved.
(15) There was also greater variation in the stability of uncemented components in simulated stair climbing, with two of the seven components moving 200 microns or more.
(16) Educating the government and the public, about the need for more and better suitable housing, more vocational opportunities, fewer physical barriers such as high curbs, stairs and narrow doorways that prevent access to public and commercial buildings and trying to encourage positive attitudes toward the disabled will help bring the paraplegic out of isolation and allow him to develop a full, active life.
(17) There are exhilarating moments, as at the Guggenheim in Bilbao , where spiralling stairs flow on to landings and views are cut through the different volumes, but above all there is an overwhelming feeling of lots and lots of empty space.
(18) The intricate wood carving, the elegant furniture, the panelled walls, the grand entrance hall and the cantilevered stairs are undeniably impressive.
(19) Based on results of this study, the stair climb can be used as a reliable screening test of pulmonary function.
(20) To investigate the usefulness of a simplified Master's two step test (s-MTT) for preschool children aged 4-6, s-MTT was carried out in our pediatric cardiology clinic using a new stair and connector for joining the leads from each child to the ECG machine.