Set in motion, start an event or prepare the way for.
1 Police were concerned about safety in the lead up to Saturday's match.
2 Waitemata hosts hundreds of sailors for Olympic lead up - Read more.
3 The initiative ran over four weekends in the lead up to Christmas.
4 Coverage of the lead up to the second of three qualifying races.
5 A witness to the shooting described the lead up to the shooting.
6 In the lead up to a major outdoor summer show, the …
7 At the very least, there will be activism in the lead up .
8 Those are the rungs on the ladder that lead up and out.
9 The leftmost one would lead up to the basement of a bakery.
10 They will lead up to the message which God wishes to send.
11 He can lead up again out of the depths, but only He.
12 Historical and sociological instruction should lead up , moreover, to direct ethical instruction.
13 Six steps, which are of undoubted stone, lead up to each door.
14 Well, and what did they each directly lead up to in science?
15 That's precisely what I've been waiting for you to lead up to.
16 However, thesouthafrican.com understands that a series of factors lead up to this point.
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