Example sentences of "road [v-ing] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.

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1 ( The little road going off to the left here , towards Host a , I certainly do n't advise ; it scared the wits out of me one afternoon , so steep , narrow and broken was it ) .
2 Marie-Christine bit her lip as they turned on to the road leading up to the château .
3 No longer had she the ache of longing for that stretch of white road leading round to the sycamores .
4 The railway line , the dual-carriageway bridging over it to a roundabout , the minor road leading down to the railway sidings of the industrial estate , are particularly distinctive .
5 It was reported that the iron bar erected at the Lanark Road end of the road leading down to the site had been removed .
6 Behind him , along the road leading down to the town , he could see lights start to glow as home fires were kindled against the cold night .
7 It was a bright day with thin sunshine burnishing up from the snow and men blinked and rubbed their eyes as they crossed the open space between the two compounds , tramping over the road running down to the village and the railway line that stretched far the other way to Pot'ma .
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