Example sentences of "that led up to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A thick hedge of cypresses hid the pool from the lawns that led up to the house . |
| 2 | Every Scot knows at least part of the story of the massacre , but many are not aware of the background that led up to the atrocity and too little is known about the heinous wickedness of some of the characters involved . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Hosanna padded down from the steps that led up to the patio door and sat beside her , lifting his right paw and placing it on her thigh . |
| 5 | And there was Gabriel , sitting on the stairs that led up to the bedrooms . |
| 6 | But his secretiveness extended to not even telling them that , and they had to be content to accompany him as he turned left at the foot of the steps that led up to the station entrance and headed for the quays . |
| 7 | The car drew up at one of the big houses on the prosperous shore road , facing the grassy slope that led up to the promenade . |
| 8 | Ben stood before the shallow flight of steps that led up to the main entrance , his head tilted back as he studied the frontage . |
| 9 | He brushed dust from his sleeve and headed towards the flight of stone steps that led up to the embankment . |
| 10 | She paid the taxi-driver and walked briskly towards the main entrance of the building , slowing her pace as she reached the flight of broad stone steps that led up to the doors . |
| 11 | When they stopped , in blackness and silence , before the steps that led up to the kitchen door , the only door anyone ever used at Trelorne , Murphy wanted to accompany her inside . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They drove slowly back down the mountain road until they came to the track that led up to the Zimmermann farmhouse . |
| 14 | So she was relieved , but at the same time a little chagrined when he did n't stop the car at all but drove her to the bottom of the footpath that led up to the Hoflin farm . |
| 15 | They had visited the fifteenth-century pavilion , which had taken them back to the world of 1492 and immersed them in an era that led up to the discovery of America . |
| 16 | The path ended at the wide stone steps that led up to the main entrance of the lodge . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |