Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Act provided for a route commencing at the top of Anerley Hill , descending past Crystal Palace ( Low Level ) Station to Thicket Road , a turning on the left , which led through to the top end of Beckenham Road , Penge .
2 His first one-man show was at The Artists Gallery 1941 and he showed with Peggy Guggenheim 's Art of this Century in 1944 which led on to a one man-show at the Guggenheim in 1947 .
3 It was painted while and there was an untidy hedge in front of it , divided by a rickety gate which led on to a short path to the front door .
4 Which led on to the obvious conclusion . ’
5 The orange light resolved itself into four roadwork lanterns — and then he saw the cordon and roadblock with its black-and-white wooden pole which had been set up ahead , blocking off the entrance road which led up to the office-block frontage and car park .
6 There was a small garden in front of the house , and she hurried along the crazy-paving path which led up to the gabled front porch .
7 ( First Edition ) DRAMATIC evidence of the First Century AD Jewish revolt against Rome , which led up to the famous siege and mass suicide of Masada , has been unearthed by Israeli archaeologists in the desert to the east of Jerusalem .
8 Unknown even to the operators , some of the rods of uranium fuel which were supposed to fall from the back of the reactor into a storage pond had instead tumbled into the channel which led up to the tall chimney .
9 Notwithstanding the constitutional changes which led up to the general election of July [ see p. 37603 ] , the Habré government had remained an alliance of faction leaders lacking any real popular support .
10 The British presence was much more persistent and important during the long negotiations which led up to the Partial Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 .
11 This appeal concerns the four younger children , although the two elder boys played a part in the events which led up to the present situation .
12 There was a trap-door in the centre of the kitchen floor , which led down to a deep cellar .
13 So Lewis drove down to the bottom of South Parks Road , where he was ushered through into the University Parks by a policeman on duty at the entrance to the single-track road which led down to the bathing area .
14 But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges .
15 CHAIRMAN Sir Peter Parker was doing his best , but the 1980s opened with much the same worries of insecurity over government policy , lack of investment , and working practices which harked back to the old company rules .
16 But this year it was Cairngorm , further east , which got off to the flying start .
17 She edged tentatively into the lee of the house to hide in a deep shadow and bumped into a broken rainwater pipe which smacked on to the concrete patio .
18 UNCED itself , however , was launched as a result of a UN General Assembly resolution passed in December 1989 [ see p. 37433 ] , which referred back to the 1987 report of the World Commission on Environment and Development chaired by the then Norwegian Prime Minister , Gro Harlem Brundtland [ see pp. 35227-29 ] .
19 The weather was perfect , the room inviting and comfortable which added up to a happy atmosphere .
20 On the third floor , she led him to one of four doors , which opened on to a firelit bedroom , with a great canopied bed , steaming water-jugs and wash-basin , and a garderobe in the thickness of the walling with candle-shelf , stone seat and chute .
21 There have been a number of studies of the development of estates attached to monasteries which persisted through to the sixteenth century .
22 In Manchester , the gangs were known as ‘ Scuttlers ’ — a word which went back to the 1880s — and their gang fights and rowdyism as ‘ Scuttling ’ or ‘ Scuttles ’ .
23 The room was long and plain , stretching down to french windows which gave on to a railed veranda and a view of the gardens and river beyond .
24 Around the walls were shelves which stretched up to the blackened ceiling , bearing more rolls of vellum .
25 The later development of the hierarchy , a development which continued down to the eighteenth century , was essentially no more than an elaboration of the basic principles set out in the Kanunname .
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