1.   Footsteps are heard ascending the stairs to platform I passing clean through the locked barrier gates and proceeding along the platform.

2.   It had begun to ascend the stairs ... and then the weariness had overcome it.

3.   She ascended the stairs and entered her own room first, but there was no one there.

4.   Without a word, he began to ascend the stairs.

5.   Without a word, the woman began to ascend the stairs.

6.   He ascends stairs with an awful, quick-footed walk.

7.   Many of those who escaped cannot shake the image of firefighters ascending the stairs to their deaths.

8.   The group then ascended the stairs of the Casa Presidencial, where Bush responded to calls from photographers by granting one-on-one pictures with each leader.

9.   They stand and wait for the next person to ascend the stairs after seeing Marge.