Example sentences of "[that] led [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He turned his back to her and walked off into the open-plan living-room , with its huge glass patio doors that led on to the front garden .
2 It was rapping in my back as I was pushed past Roger Beeding and Roger de Mornay and closer and closer to the eight steps that led up to the low wooden platform on which was the gigantic cross and the large black-and-white photograph of Rose Fox .
3 From her seat she could see the winding road that led up to the elegant gateway of Casa Madrid , and she could even see the sprinklers sending blessed water swirling over the melon and pineapple fields .
4 This wedge-shaped promontory that led up to the isolated rock on which the castle itself stood was nowhere quite sheer , and stunted trees rooting precariously in its crevices afforded cover for one solitary boy , though they would not have hidden an approach in numbers .
5 Casually , keeping a light touch on Haminh 's mind , she wandered over to the metal ramp that led up to the residential walkway , encouraging Haminh with light touches to turn into the gangpath instead of walking straight past to her own doorway .
6 Ben stood before the shallow flight of steps that led up to the main entrance , his head tilted back as he studied the frontage .
7 The path ended at the wide stone steps that led up to the main entrance of the lodge .
8 It had backed up against the patio , completely concealing the ornate wall and steps that led down onto the gravelled walks .
9 Eventually he was at the top of the slope that led down to the little towns of Streatley and Goring , separated , like their respective counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire , by the River Thames .
10 When she peered through her fingers it seemed to her that the butterfly was quite happy in its warm cage : not a flutter from its four wings as she proceeded carefully along the box-edged paths that led back to the green garden door .
11 She bounded upstairs , her bare feet silent on the cast-iron staircase , and pushed open one of the three identical wooden doors that led off from the galleried landing .
12 The entrance to her own flat was down one of the narrow corridors that led off from the rectangular landing , and as she stepped towards it she noticed with sudden uneasiness that one of the wall lights halfway down the corridor had gone , plunging the passageway into semi-darkness .
13 The little boy was standing in the passage that led out towards the front garden .
14 He waved behind him towards one of the French windows that led out to the formal gardens surrounding the palace .
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