Example sentences of "[Wh det] lead [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theodora followed the hair-cord runner down the middle of the dark hall to a door behind the staircase which led through to the kitchen . |
| 2 | ‘ Can I get to my room round this way ? ’ asked Belinda quickly as she slid her suitcases from Tom 's grasp and began to walk to the corner of the veranda which led around to the side of the house . |
| 3 | By the side of Gray 's Inn Buildings , which led on up the Avenue , some tall green wooden hoardings jutted out over part of the street and pavement , shielding some roadworks . |
| 4 | But what kind of battle ? she wondered apprehensively , discovering an exit from this bedroom which led on to a terrace , with an archway framing a velvety night sky filled with bright silver stars . |
| 5 | The great events of his administration were the return to the gold standard , the Treaty of Locarno , the General Strike , the Imperial Conference of 1926 which led on to the Statute of Westminster , and the measures originating in the Ministry of Health for the reform of local government and the extension of social security . |
| 6 | It required the outbreak of war and the threatened imminence of defeat to produce the power-sharing of 1940 , which led on to the power transference of 1945 . |
| 7 | He turned off along one of the dimly-lit back streets and , making the most of his bump of direction , arrived at the foot of the steep slope which led up to The Brigantine , the pub where Tony had taken him . |
| 8 | Detailed Description : the steps which led up to the problem and any messages or codes that were included . |
| 9 | Indeed , even at the time of the negotiations which led up to the SEA the European Communities ( EC ) Commission ( the Civil Service which administers the communities from Brussels ) estimated that in excess of 300 measures remained to be adopted before the problem of what came to be called ‘ non-Europe ’ could be said to have been fully addressed . |
| 10 | Kelly walked up the steps into the hall of the Garrick towards the wide staircase which led up to the bar , then hesitated . |
| 11 | Again , there was no direct reference to Hitler 's ‘ prophecy ’ about the destruction of European Jewry , though the whole section of the report was placed under a quotation from the speech which led up to the passage on the Jews : that in the light of the suffering of the Germans at the hands of others , people should ‘ keep well away from us with their humanitarianism ’ . |
| 12 | This region played a relatively small part in the struggles which led up to the Sandinista revolution . |
| 13 | On 19 March the Assembly started a series of debates on a motion to reject Sunningdale and the constitutional arrangements which led up to the conference , and there built up a demand from Loyalists that new elections should be held for the Assembly . |
| 14 | He pulled up in fourth gear at the foot of the balustraded stone steps which led up to the solicitor 's office : Totteridge , Spruce and Hardnut , Commissioners for Oaths , said the brass plate . |
| 15 | She stood at the foot of the staircase which led up to the tower but even Jacqueline , so well known for her early rising that her grandfather called her the Dawn Patrol , was silent . |
| 16 | These are constitutive luck — the kind of person one is ; contemporary circumstantial luck — the kind of circumstances in which one is placed ; antecedent circumstantial luck — the kind of circumstances which led up to the situation one faces ; and consequential luck — the way things turn out . |
| 17 | It was windy up on the ridge , and the ponies jogged impatiently as they reached the stretch of open turf which led over to the wood and the track through it . |
| 18 | Rachaela left the house and went to the steps which led down to the beach . |
| 19 | I spent a lot of time discovering and browsing through the bookshops , and then reading on the lawns which led down to the river Cam from the backs of the colleges . |
| 20 | ‘ The front door ! ’ said Rose , mightily impressed , as they stood at the top of a flight of wide stone steps , flanked by funerary urns , which led down to the drive . |
| 21 | So they turned their footsteps in the direction of the dropshaft which led down to the Solitorium . |
| 22 | This gave him a view up one of the sidestreets which led down to the corner of the square . |
| 23 | Beyond it fell a flight of stone steps which led down to the bank 's vault . |
| 24 | Rousing herself , she glanced at the huge diamond solitaire on her left hand as if for reassurance , before picking up her luggage and heading for the steps which led down to the landing-stage and the vaporetti . |
| 25 | They lit the candles they had brought and made their way along a passage which led out of the chamber , gazing wordlessly — he could n't remember that they had spoken at all while in there — at the arched limestone walls , at the tunnels that from time to time branched from this central artery , once into a wide gallery whose egress had been blocked by a fall of stone . |
| 26 | Ahead of me was a glass-panelled oak door which led out to the sun terrace . |
| 27 | The Gascon led Corbett and Ranulf through a maze of corridors which led out to the back of the palace , across a deserted dusty yard into one of the large outbuildings there . |
| 28 | Then she felt a breath of air and the creak of the door she had n't altogether shut and which led out to the courtyard . |
| 29 | Burun estimated that the party of riders beneath it was coming through the last of the little valleys which led out onto the plain . |
| 30 | They told him to keep his mouth shut and left , not by the way they had come but through another door which led out through the bazaar . |