Example sentences of "lead [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 | In the Far East , the Azahari revolt broke out in Brunei in December 1962 ; and , although it was crushed relatively easily by British and Gurkha troops stationed in Malaya , it led on to the Indonesian ‘ Confrontation ’ , which began in a small way in April 1963 . |
3 | An hour later she was still happily chatting to the woman , finding out about the terrible Harry who had ‘ torn the heart ’ right out of her daughter and gone off with a woman from Cork , which naturally led on to the dreadful and often incomprehensible ways of men and the stupid way women always put up with it . |
4 | Which led on to the obvious conclusion . ’ |
5 | It had backed up against the patio , completely concealing the ornate wall and steps that led down onto the gravelled walks . |
6 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Beyond the tower a narrow path led down to the rocky shore below . |
9 | A gentle stroll through the gardens led down to the beautiful long , wide beach . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Penguin has a brand new series of ready Readers , a mixture of classic and modern stories at three levels and designed to lead in to the same publisher 's Simply Stories series . |
13 | A farm track led off to the left opposite , flanked by deep drainage ditches . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
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17 | It was also during this period that his single-engined fighter designs began appearing , starting with the Yak–1 and leading on to the classic Yak–3 — later developed into the familiar Yak–11 trainer . |
18 | This leads on to the second part of the book , in which the author begins by showing that there is a deep ambiguity in our basic concepts of causality and chance . |
19 | I can not see how they could be established in British literary education , where there are no graduate schools as such , and the narrow , uphill tunnel of A-level work leads on to the rocky , cloudy uplands of the undergraduate degree , with its confused mixture of practical criticism and thematic study , analysis and literary history , coverage and special subjects . |
20 | This leads on to the final point . |
21 | This leads on to the third scenario , that decisions would be taken in economic and other fields at Community level , and that they would be submitted to the scrutiny of the European Parliament . |
22 | The Americans could take this a little further , but after Schweinfurt they had to stop and lick their wounds ; and so this leads on to the inevitable topic when I am confronted with the audiences I meet in all those places . |
23 | It has over four hectares of terraced gardens leading down to the rocky shore where you can swim in the sea or swimming pool . |
24 | The lift leading down to the diving area was only twenty feet away . |
25 | The alley ended abruptly in a couple of steps leading down to the sluggish black waters of a canal . |
26 | She was at the top of the steps leading down to the front door of the Moebius Strip . |
27 | He knew the feel of every cold stone step on the wide staircase leading down to the main hall . |
28 | When he peeped through the gap he could see the big half-pillars supporting the lintel , the rounded stone steps leading down to the paved walkway and the wilderness of garden beyond . |
29 | Even her little house was somehow in keeping with this picture , although it was definitely not St John 's Wood and there was no delicate wrought iron balcony with steps leading down to the green garden . |
30 | Shortly after this point the road becomes little more than a bridle path or cart track which , however , provides an intriguing pass-walk of about 4 hours duration over the Pragel Pass to Richisau 's alpine pasture leading down to the beautiful Klontal valley in the canton of Glarus . |