Use "lead up" in a sentence

1. She looked up the path that lead up to the house

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2. The late 34th century in these parts was literate, peaceful and prosperous actually, compared to the centuries that lead up to it

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3. The road leading north of the green lead up to the hills

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4. The time that lead up to it was a really good time in my life, in a really good place

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5. They were lead up a flight of stairs to what looked like a trysting suite in the palace, but was on a hall with a very nice bathroom

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6. The homes were between street and canal here, there was no walkway along the side of the canal along here, just a stubby dock where the needleboats and u-paddles stopped and a stairway between two homes that lead up to the street

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7. “Not really, I’m going to follow up that lead up beyond Chardovia

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8. She’d orchestrated this whole evening to lead up to a seduction

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9. “Does this hatch lead up onto the roof of the ship?” she asked, stopping beneath a sturdier-than-average-looking hatch in the ceiling of the duct

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10. They were even known to lead uprisings – and so the practice had been banned in Jamaica during the colonial period

11. The famous golden mile that lead up to Holyrood was on their left but they had no time to step out and enjoy its hospitality

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12. lead up to the question

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13. explain what had lead up to her moving in with us, but Major cut her off, managing to sound

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14. Sileas and Harailt were among the first I saw on the path that lead up to the top of our hill

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15. It all connected with my parents odd behavior, yet, I couldn’t see what it all would lead up to

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16. lead up to this

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17. any events that lead up to the formulation of

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18. lead up to the shot of her in her lounge, the camera pans onto the front

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19. They had casually met a thoughtless pagan while on their journey up to the lakes, and Ganid was surprised that Jesus did not follow out his usual practice of enlisting the man in conversation which would naturally lead up to the discussion of spiritual questions

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20. and all I can think of in the lead up to it is how much

21. the events that lead up to this one

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22. The travelers agreed that this would be the opportune time to record their reports on the events that lead up to the battle as well as their experiences during the battle itself

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23. On the outside of the building on the angles were elevators that lead up and down to other walkways

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24. The vines only stretch from just where the branches are-below that it is a two story meter fall to the ground,” Halirit looked over the cliff again, “and none of those vines lead up to the edge of the cliff

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25. Just as quickly as they had come, they were sent on their way with a boot of lead up their behinds

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26. Not since the lead up to Pearl Harbor has the Giant been in such a deep sleep

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27. In the lead up to the Kennedy assassination corporate America also hooked Kennedy into a fray over steel prices, where Kennedy showed his muscle to force compliance to verbal agreements that he got from US Steel that had not been honored

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28. Alternatively it’s also possible that both Revelation 6:2,4,6 and Matthew 24:6-8 refer to a series of “lead up” events

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29. A soft, rounded chin lead up into full lips which were flat in relaxation

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30. There was a metal ladder built into the wall that lead up to another one of the metal grate drains

31. ” But then suddenly, as if a veil was lifted from her eyes, she remembered everything—every minute detail of the events that lead up to her awakening on the Blue Glaciers

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32. He indicated to say something but she pressed her finger to his lips, her hand brushing his face, the lead up to the kiss

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33. Amid flashbulbs going off, people were vying for front row places on either side of the cordoned off sidewalks which lead up to the Crest Tower’s entrance doors

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34. In addition to these rooms, there were a couple of linen closets, her bedroom with it’s adjoining bathroom, and a small set of stairs which lead up to her attic

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35. He carefully made his way over to the trapdoor which was located between Annie’s house and Kathy’s, and gingerly opened it up, keeping his feet firmly planted on the second rung of the ladder which lead up to the door

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36. He carefully and stealthily made his way through the tunnel, until he came to the secret entrance which lead up into Kathy’s house

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37. He carefully and stealthily made his way through the tunnel, until he came to the secret entrance which lead up to a hidden niche on the outside of Kathy’s living room fireplace, which was just big enough to hide a full grown man

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38. “Maybe when you get inside there are steps which lead up to the top

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39. The usual lobby of writers would cover the council business but three more would concentrate on the colour lead up to, during and after the afternoon’s developments

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40. the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof

41. weight of lead upon the mouth thereof

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42. As additional support of this conclusion, 5:8 also states that “he cast the weight of lead upon the

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43. In both cases note the way the lines lead up to the principal subject, and the steadying power introduced by means of horizontal, vertical, and other straight lines

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44. “The simplicity and absolute oneness of a living agent cannot, indeed, from the nature of the things, be properly proved by experimental observations; but as these (observations) fall in with the supposition of its unity, so they plainly lead up to conclude certainly that our gross organized bodies, with which we receive the objects of sense and with which we act, are no part of ourselves and therefore show us that we have no reason to believe their destruction to be ours”—Butler’s Analogy, page 44

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45. lead up to an even greater and more fluid language, that of telepathy in which the psychic

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46. I would have departed by the back way, to get a last glimpse of Catherine and annoy old Joseph; but Hareton received orders to lead up my horse, and my host himself escorted me to the door, so I could not fulfil my wish

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47. All in a moment, with nothing to lead up to it, my sister would stop herself in a yawn, and catching sight of me as it were incidentally, would swoop upon me with, "Come! there's enough of you! You get along to bed; you've given trouble enough for one night, I hope!" As if I had besought them as a favor to bother my life out

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48. But their way was becoming intricate, in those dark and gloomy passages, and the glimpses of the retiring warriors less distinct and frequent; and for a moment the trace was believed to be lost, when a white robe was seen fluttering in the further extremity of a passage that seemed to lead up the mountain

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49. While he was drinking his moderate allowance, he said, with nothing to lead up to it, and after having appeared rather fidgety,—

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50. For one thing he mightn't what you call jump at the idea, if approached, and what mostly worried him was he didn't know how to lead up to it or word it exactly, supposing he did entertain the proposal, as it would afford him very great personal pleasure if he would allow him to help to put coin in his way or some wardrobe, if found suitable

51. was not the way she had intended to lead up to the subject of her love but his hand was His voice was cool but the hand he put on her wrist hurt

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52. In conduct these ends had been attained; but the difficulty of making his Key to all Mythologies unimpeachable weighed like lead upon his mind; and the pamphlets—or "Parerga" as he called them—by which he tested his public and deposited small monumental records of his march, were far from having been seen in all their significance

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53. One evening—with nothing to lead up or to prepare it—I felt the cold touch of the impression that had breathed on me the night of my arrival and which, much lighter then, as I have mentioned, I should probably have made little of in memory had my subsequent sojourn been less agitated

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54. The Cruchots were a necessary part of his plan; but he would not seek them,—he resolved to make them come to him, and to lead up that very evening to a comedy whose plot he had just conceived, which should make him on the morrow an object of admiration to the whole town without its costing him a single penny

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55. Continued abstention from speech, and constant avoidance of everything that might lead up to the subject- this halting on all sides at the boundary of what they might not mention- brought before their minds with still greater purity and clearness what they were both feeling

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56. ‘Well, what does that lead up to?’ said Nicholas

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57. If the other allowed him to walk on, and had not seized him as yet, it was, judging from all appearances, in the hope of seeing him lead up to some significant meeting-place and to some group worth catching

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58. "All this to lead up to my murder," he said

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59. November is middling, but buying the right shares in October and November can be a good move in the lead up to the Christmas buying spree …

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60. In particular, the strategy of buying volatility in periods before earnings announcements is based on the premise that implied volatility will steadily increase in the lead up to the earnings announcement date

61. I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary Sutherland

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62. With the cries of despair which rang out on every side, with the groans of men and the neighing of horses as they fell and were trampled under-foot, mingled the ceaseless shrieking of the cannon-balls, the booming of the guns, the rain of lead upon wagons, carriages and caissons, broken, shattered and dispersed, their flying splinters still further adding to the slaughter

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63. first word and the first glance that Versilov was trying to lead up to this outburst, that he was intentionally teasing and provoking this iraiscible baron, and was trying to put b'Tn out of patience

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64. That minute was so diabolically calculated, was so treacherously prepared to lead up to its finale, its ludicrous dénouement, and was brought out with such killing humour that a perfect outburst of irrepressible mirth saluted this last sally

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65. Continued abstention from speech, and constant avoidance of everything that might lead up to the subject—this halting on all sides at the boundary of what they might not mention—brought before their minds with still greater purity and clearness what they were both feeling

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66. “Well, what does that lead up to?” said Nicholas

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67. For let it be said while I have your freshest attention, that it is the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ, and not education or civilization, that is to solve this problem; and all I have to say is to lead up to this thought

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