Example sentences of "[noun pl] lead [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even the wooden steps leading up to the door were rotten . |
| 32 | When he reached the steps leading up to the front door of the Guild Office , he found the place in darkness , with no sign of life . |
| 33 | ‘ Tell me about Jules , ’ he said as they approached the stone steps leading up to the arched doorway into the château . |
| 34 | The place was n't huge by country house standards — two storeys , twenty-something rooms — but its main entrance was a covered carriage porch with stone pillars and broad steps leading up to the doors . |
| 35 | It was market day and the wide curving flight of steps leading up to the centre was lined with flimsy tables covered in kitchenware and watches and clothing and tools and toys Music blared out from a stall selling bootleg cassette tapes . |
| 36 | Asa braked at the foot of broad steps leading up to the front entrance , walls and towers rising above them . |
| 37 | Armed soldiers and refugee families were crowded round the foot of the steps leading up to the entry hatch . |
| 38 | ’ Athelstan tugged him by the sleeve and they made their way across the deserted bailey to the steps leading up to the parapet walk . |
| 39 | She turned towards the shallow stone steps leading out of the square . |
| 40 | It has a flight of steps leading down into the depths , and its main feature is a high waterfall that emerges from behind a wedged boulder known as Mohammed 's Coffin . |
| 41 | Potted shrubs of sombre green flanked a flight of broad , shallow rockfoam steps leading down to a doorway covered by thick curtains of the darkest purple . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Others flow into a stone tank or pond , or have a brick well-housing , with steps leading down to the water . |
| 44 | She had reached the pier now , and , still fighting against the wind , made for the flight of iron steps leading down to the beach . |
| 45 | She was at the top of the steps leading down to the front door of the Moebius Strip . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | Across the back of the house was a kitchen , a bathroom and a big breakfast room with steps leading down to the back garden . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | The alley ended abruptly in a couple of steps leading down to the sluggish black waters of a canal . |
| 52 | They had reached a short flight of stone steps leading down to an open door , and she had no idea of how they had arrived there . |
| 53 | Seen from the rear , the house was exactly as she had described it , square and imposing with a flight of elegant stone steps leading down onto the grass . |
| 54 | The external circumstances surrounding the loss , such as the disruption caused or discordant family relationships leading up to the loss , may be the most important factors , as Rutter ( 1981 ) has argued . |
| 55 | The research identifies the areas in which they have survived in sufficient abundance to form the basis of a nationwide sample survey designed to illustrate changes in the level , composition and distribution of household wealth in the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution . |
| 56 | To my left , steps led up to a hummocky cliff edge , on which reposed the fragmented remains of a Franciscan friary . |
| 57 | And I remember four stone steps led up to the front door , and we 'd what they called a parlour then . |
| 58 | Several steps led up to the door which she unlocked . |
| 59 | Steps lead up to a higher level platform where surprises are found above the cases down below : the head of a moose and whole of an alligator , to name two . |
| 60 | THE STAGE is a backyard bounded by a palisade of rusty corrugated iron ; two ladders lead up to a balcony , a tap drips into a can . |