1. Stairs rising to first floor with exposed timber bannister.

2. Alan Bannister, 39, said in a final statement.

3. He needed to support himself on the bannister.

4. Hold on to the bannister rail and lower your heels down slowly, then slowly rise on tiptoe.

5. I leaned on the polished wooden bannister until his head was level with mine and our eyes met.

6. Both hands on the bannister, the scarf around her head.

7. By clinging to a bannister he miraculously managed to land safely.

8. And Bannister, who weighs 22 stone and has size 17 feet, could be Cadle's secret weapon.

9. How did Bannister do this?

10. Bannister had broken a belief in the limit of a human’s ability to run at such a pace and, consequently, opened a floodgate.

11. Bannister :British runner who in 1954 became the first human being to run the mile in under four minutes.

12. And 1954, in Britain, Roger Bannister becomes the first athlete to run a mile in fewer than 4 minutes.

13. Bannister’s record is an historical sporting moment, but what is not so widely known is that within the following twelve months, dozens of athletes went on to break the four-minute mile.

14. And, miracle of miracles, six weeks after Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile, John Landy beat Bannister's time by nearly two full seconds.

15. Zoe Bannister hunched over her veranda desk, correcting exercise books.

16. Bannister refused to work within the confines of the belief of the four-minute mile.

17. Sir Roger Bannister, former Master of Pembroke College, is unusual among heads.

18. Roger Bannister re-wrote the commonly held belief held about an athlete’s physical, and mental, ability.

19. In May 1954, Sir Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile.

20. CLIVE BANNISTER: Not only looking after elderly parents but contributing to grand children and children both in term of their own children.

21. Dr. Roger Bannister, the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes, claims to have beaten cramp by carrying a small magnet around with him.

22. Roger Bannister was the first human being to run a mile in less than 4 minutes.

23. Mr Bannister argues that while the dearth of first-time buyers is putting the brake on inflation, it may turn out to be a boon for the housing market.

24. She held on to the ochre bannister with both hands, leaning forward, as if she were keeping it at arm’s length.

25. There was a considerable possibility that one of them would beat Bannister to the coveted record.

26. Yeung will secure the remainder of his 29.9% by purchasing shares from the Birmingham directors Karren Brady and Roger Bannister.

27. His legs retain the exact height of the steps; his hand, the instinctive, never-conquered horror of the bannister.

28. "The dollar case has always been there but it is only now that it has become sexy to seek the green outcomes," Paul Bannister, managing director of energy solutions firm Exergy, Australia.

29. However, on May 6 1954, the English athlete Roger Bannister became the first person to break the four-minute mile barrier.

30. In addition, the idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards – just ask Roger Bannister about breaking the 4 minute mile.