give onto

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The buildings themselves are organised around two civic spaces - a cloistered garden and a grand hall - which give onto the teaching areas.

From BBC

The town layout prefers people over cars: front doors give onto streets that are safer for children because the roads are too winding to allow cars to speed.

From Time Magazine Archive

But no longer do the panes of varnish give onto idyllic visions of pinky Titian nudes, fluffy Millet sheep, plush Poussin valleys.

From Time Magazine Archive

Passing then to the hind part of the house I noted a little postern door that seemed to give onto a sort of jetty or wharf, the inn standing upon the riverside as I have already said; but when I approached it, there was the neat tapster that had brought my meal whistling some catch of a sea song, and polishing of a great arquebus.

From Project Gutenberg

The same process is at work in the tributary creek-bays that give onto the estuary, some of which have silted so heavily since Colonial Days that formerly thriving ports—among them Bladensburg, Dumfries, and Port Tobacco—are now distant from the water.

From Project Gutenberg