Example sentences of "steps [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs M. parked the car in a street of stone houses , where steps led up to the tower . |
| 2 | Steps led down to the banks of the river , and from the water 's edge , the ruins of the castle dominated the skyline . |
| 3 | Beyond this , four short steps led down to an oval door let into a solid steel bulkhead . |
| 4 | Outside them , by an open area and a covered section , a small flight of steps led down to a low outbuilding which faced the open area . |
| 5 | A short flight of stone steps led down to the entrance . |
| 6 | From the terrace , a broad flight of central steps led down to lawns and formal flowerbeds . |
| 7 | The main entrance was on a small , dusty square grandly named Campo San Pietro , while , at the rear , steps led down to a canal and a private landing-stage for the guests arriving by water-taxi . |
| 8 | A fine flight of stone steps leads up to the gallery . |
| 9 | The slope in this new garden is to be terraced around a circular lawn with steps leading up to the higher level . |
| 10 | My helpers borrowed an old flatbed truck from a farmer , along with two dozen squared bales of hay which they arranged as steps leading up to the truck . |
| 11 | A lot of people in those streets ( they were very poor , but they were very proud ) and on the steps leading up to the house , they 'd have laid a little piece of lino , three pieces or two . |
| 12 | A long drive curved towards a three-storeyed , white building , with steps leading up to its porticoed door and on either side of the doorway a wide , pillared verandah . |
| 13 | Jack had to fill the coal scuttles , Kevin to bring in the logs , Aengus had to roll yesterday 's papers into sausage-like shapes which would be used for lighting the fires later , Gerry , who was meant to be the animal lover , had to take Oswald for a run in the park , and see that there was something on the bird table in the garden , and Ronan had to open the big heavy curtains in the front rooms , take the milk in from the steps and place it in the big fridge and brush whatever had to be brushed from the big granite steps leading up to the house . |
| 14 | Whilst on duty one Saturday afternoon during the early part of 1975 , he heard the sound of footsteps ascending the steps leading up to the box , then he became aware of the figure of a man about to enter the lobby or vestibule outside the door . |
| 15 | They went round the corner , and the child stopped in front of a flight of steps leading up to a dilapidated house , one of a number in the street . |
| 16 | The ground level appeared to be slightly higher than he remembered and there was no sign of the seven semi-circular steps leading up to the front door . |
| 17 | Supporters insist nothing would be lost other than a small car park and the steps leading up to the Prado 's ‘ Goya ’ entrance . |
| 18 | The village is situated on a very steep hillside with steps leading up to the next row of houses . |
| 19 | It was n't until they had climbed the stone steps leading up to the house that she learned the truth of the matter . |
| 20 | Even the wooden steps leading up to the door were rotten . |
| 21 | When he reached the steps leading up to the front door of the Guild Office , he found the place in darkness , with no sign of life . |
| 22 | ‘ Tell me about Jules , ’ he said as they approached the stone steps leading up to the arched doorway into the château . |
| 23 | The place was n't huge by country house standards — two storeys , twenty-something rooms — but its main entrance was a covered carriage porch with stone pillars and broad steps leading up to the doors . |
| 24 | Unexpectedly peaceful gardens with Delphinium called Johnson 's Blue , some mauve-white and cobalt Campanula ; peonies ; poppies ; trefoils in brilliant mauve ; scents of lavender and musk rose ; four phallic cypress bushes , two of acid-green-yellow , two of dark green ; on the tower , eyeless turrets each with a little pennanted wind-vane , the wind is from the west and the flag flies , brilliant yellow predominating , a ship with sails filled , a cross in black and red , and an antlered deer 's head ; in the bright , southern lee of the castle 's core , long buildings roofed with tiny slates , stepped corners ; the comfort of a loosely-enclosed , highly aromatic rose-garden ; a peony walk , a wall of Euphorbia ; in the reaches of the garden , oasal recesses , stone steps leading up to stone seats ; a bee visited along thick heavy honeysuckle ; rectangular stone troughs , abundant and velvet with flowering plants ; old walls placid with centuries of absorbed heat from the sun ; a holly tree : did Cawdor once contain all the seven sacred trees from the Celtic grove ? |
| 25 | Perhaps it has steps leading up to it . |
| 26 | It was market day and the wide curving flight of steps leading up to the centre was lined with flimsy tables covered in kitchenware and watches and clothing and tools and toys Music blared out from a stall selling bootleg cassette tapes . |
| 27 | Asa braked at the foot of broad steps leading up to the front entrance , walls and towers rising above them . |
| 28 | Armed soldiers and refugee families were crowded round the foot of the steps leading up to the entry hatch . |
| 29 | ’ Athelstan tugged him by the sleeve and they made their way across the deserted bailey to the steps leading up to the parapet walk . |
| 30 | He could see the long walkway below him , the small iron gates at each end with steps leading down to both sides of the house . |