Example sentences of "leading [adv prt] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While her eyes were drawn to him , Tara emerged from another of the doors leading on to the terrace , clad in a saffron-yellow mini-skirt and tiny crop-top . |
| 2 | She had reached the pier now , and , still fighting against the wind , made for the flight of iron steps leading down to the beach . |
| 3 | The greatest single natural attraction of Durness , however , and visited by all who stay or halt there , is the famous Smoo Cave , quickly reached from the road by a much-trodden path leading down to the beach . |
| 4 | Set in tropical gardens leading down to the beach , the Nyali Beach is one of Kenya 's best known hotels . |
| 5 | There was a gate in the wall that overlooked the seashore — the wall where she and Guido had stood last night — with a flight of stone steps leading down to the beach . |
| 6 | The entrance from the road is in the top floor , with all the rooms and public areas on lower levels leading down to the lakeside . |
| 7 | Each one seizing his or her bundle of wraps and nearly tumbling over each other on the narrow stair leading down to the cabin deck . |
| 8 | Others flow into a stone tank or pond , or have a brick well-housing , with steps leading down to the water . |
| 9 | Courses have been run continually since 1812 in this part of the Academy , and with its impressive frontage , parade square and greensward leading down to the lake , it dominates the grounds . |
| 10 | The town itself has a pedestrian centre with quaint narrow streets leading down to the lake front . |
| 11 | Then , staring across the moonlit yard , she saw his tall figure standing at the top of the slope leading down to the river . |
| 12 | He would have gone straight home but made a short diversion when he found Pike the ditcher drunk as a bishop on the corner of the trackway leading down to the church . |
| 13 | It 's set in its own park with beautiful rolling gardens leading down to the road which separates the hotel from its own private beach , yet is only a few minutes from the centre . |
| 14 | ‘ Some of us could try the woods on either side of the track leading down to the road — away from the belvedere . ’ |
| 15 | Span wire construction of the overhead suspension was used throughout ( except in Oak Grove leading down to the depôt ) . |
| 16 | He made fast the rope round Trent 's neck to the handhold beside the companionway leading down to the head in the port hull . |
| 17 | Situated on Beruwela Beach , the Neptune is a comfortable hotel set in a palm grove with lawns leading down to the sea . |
| 18 | The Courtlands Hotel is situated in a wide tree-lined avenue leading down to the seafront approximately 500 yards away . |
| 19 | The Doctor looked back from the short flight of steps leading down to the entry hall , and watched the TARDIS dematerialize with a feeling of pain at seeing his ship go without him . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was reported that the iron bar erected at the Lanark Road end of the road leading down to the site had been removed . |
| 23 | The only road was a quarter of a mile away up a track , leading down to the campsite itself , so that made the immediate area pretty safe . |
| 24 | In the distance Alyssia could see the flat blue sea , and at the far side the path leading down to the cove . |
| 25 | The slight figure of a woman emerged from the hotel and stood on the steps leading down to the terrace , scanning the tables with anxious eyes and making agitated , jerky movements with her hands . |
| 26 | Newman spotted the track leading off to the right and swung away from the main road . |
| 27 | At the end of this wall leading off to the left was another passage to the downstairs lobby and the stairway to the first floor . |
| 28 | Eubank has formulated a master-plan leading up to the fight of his dreams — a £1 million title unification fight next September with arch-enemy Benn . |
| 29 | Have , in contrast , eliminates any reference to a tension leading up to the realization of the infinitive and represents the latter as being " already in the bag " . |
| 30 | This latter use raises the question however of describing what is implied as leading up to the realization of the infinitive event , that is , of justifying why the speaker should want to represent the infinitive incident to a support conceived as occupying a before-position with respect to the infinitive 's event . |