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lead up to

To follow or mark a path toward.
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The old larder gate now serves as the common way to the church, for those who live on the north side, where eighteen or nineteen stone steps lead up to a paved alley, once a gallery of the dormitories, dorture, or lodging rooms of the monks, now for the most part in ruins, or converted to gardens, which we shall next proceed to describe.

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Submitted on July 07, 2010

Additional definitions for 'lead up to':

lead up toTo set in motion; to act as a causal or preparatory event or sequence of events.
lead up toTo precede in time.
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