noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
moving staircase
spiral staircase
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
back
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She herself would use the back staircase as the entrance to her flat, approaching it from the courtyard.
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She went downstairs to make coffee, using a back staircase to the kitchen.
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Kali and Jit moved out of the way of the back staircase and the sheep flooded down past them.
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She now hurried round the corner and into the yard and there she knocked on the back staircase door.
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Higher than from the back staircase like Cardiff said.
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They'd there's a little back staircase that goes down to the kitchens - sorry, lad, galley!
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Picking up his suitcase he headed towards the back staircase .
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The back staircase collapsed a few weeks later.
curving
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I have never seen anything like that hall, with its lovely curving staircase .
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Karl von Bruhel, waiting impatiently at the foot of the curving marble staircase to greet his guests, glanced angrily upwards.
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They climbed the curving staircase to the first floor and rang a bell.
grand
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There was a grand marble staircase , spiralling up to the eaves and the upper areas of the casino.
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His hostess was beginning to wilt as she greeted the guests who, by now, were queuing half-way up the grand staircase .
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They walked up a grand staircase , first the minder, then Sylvie, then Alexei.
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If only I had a crinoline to sweep down the grand staircase in!
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At seven-thirty Paige descended the grand sweeping staircase to the hall.
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Inside, a grand and generous staircase rose from a pale stone flagged hall patterned with black stone diamonds.
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A grand staircase went to nowhere.
great
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Down the great wide wooden staircase and into the hall: I am sharp, she thought.
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You see her coming down a great staircase in your house, dressed in a velvet negligee.
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The study doors are those that face one as one comes down the great staircase .
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A great staircase is then lowered from the back of the stage.
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She went through the hall to the ante-room below the great upward-plunging staircase .
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The great wide wooden staircase into the empty hall with its patterned marble floor.
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These provided a view of the great central staircase .
main
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There was the main staircase she had climbed with Clive a while - how long? - ago.
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As I came down the main staircase in Hovde House, they emerged into the hall below.
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Features clearly cast in Harvey's foundry include the iron balustrade over the porch and the balusters of the main staircase .
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A massive walk-in metal safe was built into a space near the main staircase .
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On the small landing at the top of the main staircase he stopped to examine his reflection in the mirror.
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The main staircase must be near, somewhere in the centre of the house.
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They were standing on the main staircase , two flights up from the party room.
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Constance never forgot standing in front of one on the main staircase .
narrow
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But then they began to climb up a narrow , spiral staircase , and she saw no more.
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Thick smoke billowed up a narrow staircase and smothered the sleeping youngsters in their second-floor bedroom.
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A china light-switch, finger-flicked, showed her a narrow wooden staircase .
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I descend the narrow , creaky staircase and notice another public-service-law-oriented program on the lower floors.
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I climbed a narrow staircase leading to the first floor balcony.
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To find out what, one of us would have to slink down that narrow iron spiral staircase in the dark.
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To get a better view, I climbed the narrow staircase leading to the balcony at the top of the east wall.
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A narrow spiral staircase leads up from chamber 2b to 2c; characters must ascend in single file.
spiral
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The seating areas are constructed on two levels linked by a spiral staircase .
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He charged his customers a flat dollar for a trip down his spiral staircase to the foot of the cataract.
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I run down the spiral staircase and along the empty corridor.
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To find out what, one of us would have to slink down that narrow iron spiral staircase in the dark.
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Inside the doorway, a spiral stone staircase climbed, within the thickness of the massive walls.
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After the appropriate phone call, I am ask d to walk down an oak spiral staircase one floor.
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The Nanny Ogg expeditionary force corkscrewed up the spiral staircase .
wide
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Down the great wide wooden staircase and into the hall: I am sharp, she thought.
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It led to a five-foot-\#wide walnut staircase that swept up in a sumptuous curve to the floor above.
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He knew the feel of every cold stone step on the wide staircase leading down to the main hall.
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She glanced up the wide staircase .
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Flanked by the two men, they walked down a wide marble staircase , and out into the brilliant sunshine.
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I had to go up this wide , curving staircase and along about three miles of landing to get to my room.
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Once inside, Wasswa, the Minister, beckoned me impatiently from the top of a wide staircase .
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Her frozen limbs were dragged up an impressively wide staircase and then along a hallway.
wooden
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They clambered up the rickety wooden outside staircase to Louis's workshop in what had been the grooms' quarters.
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The space age escalator and exposed metal piping of the foyer segued into a spiraling wooden staircase and crinkly old master prints.
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Down the great wide wooden staircase and into the hall: I am sharp, she thought.
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Baptiste was standing on the bottom step of the wooden staircase , affecting surprise at the sight of her.
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Standing on top of the wooden staircase she hurled herself to the ground, landing in a heap at the bottom.
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A china light-switch, finger-flicked, showed her a narrow wooden staircase .
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Ranulf scooped his dice into his leather wallet and they went down the spiral wooden staircase and into the hall.
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Chewing on her lower lip, she trundled after him along a flagged passageway and up an ornate wooden staircase .
■ NOUN
marble
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There was a grand marble staircase , spiralling up to the eaves and the upper areas of the casino.
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I am far up above a marble staircase past a balcony in a large room with long tables.
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A marble staircase leads to wide corridors of bedrooms, which are comfortably furnished and equipped with modern bathrooms.
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Flanked by the two men, they walked down a wide marble staircase , and out into the brilliant sunshine.
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Karl von Bruhel, waiting impatiently at the foot of the curving marble staircase to greet his guests, glanced angrily upwards.
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Ahead was a short marble staircase , leading to what appeared to be a lecture-room on the next floor.
stone
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Open stone staircases swept up to bedrooms that bristled with floor-to-ceiling windows.
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I climbed the stone staircase , lit by the dimmest of light bulbs.
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She led her up a stone staircase into a small room where Brownies were sitting on wooden toadstools.
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She walked down a stone staircase to a basement where you could hang your coat.
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I felt around for a switch and threw it down to reveal a stone staircase with iron handrail.
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They had walked up the worn stone staircase , arm in arm, with their beautiful girl child dancing around them.
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Dressing-room doors opened, voices questioned, feet clattered on the stone staircases .
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Inside the doorway, a spiral stone staircase climbed, within the thickness of the massive walls.
■ VERB
climb
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When he had finished his tea, he slowly climbed the staircase .
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I get confused and climb the wrong staircase .
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Finally, they doused the few lights and climbed the hall staircase .
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Find out where you lived and climb your staircase , touch the walls you touched, imagine you?
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I climbed a narrow staircase leading to the first floor balcony.
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The prince walked past all the sleeping nobility and climbed the staircase to the room where Sleeping Beauty slept.
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Wall sconces providing a dim light, they climbed the staircase in silence.
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Then his feet turned, and shuffled a few steps, and began climbing the long staircase home.
descend
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Ruth's legs were soon aching with climbing steps, only to turn and descend another staircase in the opposite direction.
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Falling asleep is like descending a staircase , with each stage of sleep becoming deeper than the previous one.
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She dried herself, wrapped the soft, fragrant robe around her slim body and cautiously descended the staircase .
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At seven-thirty Paige descended the grand sweeping staircase to the hall.
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He attempted to descend a steep staircase which had no handrail, whilst holding a small child by the hand.
lead
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He knew the feel of every cold stone step on the wide staircase leading down to the main hall.
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There had once been an outside staircase leading up to the flat roof but that, too, had collapsed.
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I climbed a narrow staircase leading to the first floor balcony.
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The physics classroom had a spiral iron staircase leading from it to some region inhabited only by science masters.
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Inside, they quietly ascended the huge curved staircase which led to their bedrooms on the upper floor.
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To get a better view, I climbed the narrow staircase leading to the balcony at the top of the east wall.
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A narrow spiral staircase leads up from chamber 2b to 2c; characters must ascend in single file.
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He winced in pain as he climbed down the staircase leading on to the tarmac, where an airline bus awaited him.
use
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She herself would use the back staircase as the entrance to her flat, approaching it from the courtyard.
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She went downstairs to make coffee, using a back staircase to the kitchen.
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I use the left-hand staircase to climb up to the flat.
walk
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He walked down the staircase , his shoulders bowed as if by a great weight, and Kate saw him pull himself erect.
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She walked down a stone staircase to a basement where you could hang your coat.
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Her inspection of the bedroom finished, she walked down the staircase into the coolness of the stone-flagged hallway.
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They walked up a grand staircase , first the minder, then Sylvie, then Alexei.
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As I emerged, she walked silently towards the staircase , a curious lack of urgency in her manner.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A small lamp was mounted on an upright stanchion near the head of each staircase .
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Adam didn't move until he was sure he could no longer hear her penetrating voice echoing on the staircase .
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After the appropriate phone call, I am ask d to walk down an oak spiral staircase one floor.
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At each end of the second floor of these dwellings typically were staircases, one for men and one for women.
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It led to a five-foot-wide walnut staircase that swept up in a sumptuous curve to the floor above.
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She pulled herself back up the spiral staircase and made for the bathroom.
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She shook herself slightly and took a final look down the proud granite staircase towards the traffic.
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The staircase beckoned up a modest rise, then disappeared around a bend.