Example sentences of "lead [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl swung round as a silent invitation to follow , and led them past a tangled bunch of bicycles and a wall of political posters to hopeless causes . |
| 2 | He led them down a small corridor , paused by a door , took out a huge bunch of keys , slowly , and deliberately , unlocked the door , and then , with a dramatic , indeed melodramatic , flourish , flung it open . |
| 3 | She led them down a narrow corridor and into a comfortable lounge . |
| 4 | He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him . |
| 5 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 6 | Flunkeys led them into a private part of La Noblesse where they were warmly greeted by an expansive Grunte , who presented the ladies with a flower and with grave courtesy showed each to her seat . |
| 7 | Philpott led them to a pale-blue door at the end of the passage . |
| 8 | At noon , the exhausted Pack gathered together and Brown Owl led them to a shady area . |
| 9 | And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim . |
| 10 | It seems at first quite astonishing to learn that neither the inventory in Jacques 's marriage contract nor that made after death provides any evidence that he was a flute-player or maker ; they seem to contradict the generally held view that he was a maker - a view which is supported by an entry in von Uffenbach 's diary which records a visit he paid Jacques in 1715 : ‘ He [ Jacques ] led me into a tidy room and showed me there many beautiful transverse flutes that he himself makes and from which he wishes to gain special profit . ’ |
| 11 | She returned a few minutes later and somewhat grudgingly led me into a little room at the back . |
| 12 | I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward . |
| 13 | I skulked down one side of the garden and went through the arch which led me to a walled garden in the middle of which there was a fountain playing . |
| 14 | I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen . |
| 15 | Where was Um Al-Farajh , I asked him , and he led me to a large square of fir trees and pointed to the earth . |
| 16 | I shuffled forward as fast as I dared along the central walkway , figuring this to be less likely to lead me towards a choice-limiting edge . |
| 17 | When Donald examined his wire in the last stages of the illness it might be necessary to lead him to a medical textbook and steer those calm , grey eyes in the direction of the chapter headed ‘ The Guillain-Barré Syndrome ’ . |
| 18 | A useful outcome is the third ingredient , for what would be the point of skills that led you to a useless outcome ? |
| 19 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 20 | She smilingly explains that the scanner is a sort of lie-down X-ray and leads me to a narrow bed that slides inch by inch through what looks like a dry-cleaning machine . |
| 21 | Occasionally , there 's a happy accident that leads me in a nice direction . ’ |
| 22 | If you follow it along from the historical site it leads you to a perfect waterfall , and then to a point where flat grass lies between the vertical gorge sides . |
| 23 | There too a twenty year old who has managed to kick a habit that was leading him down a dangerous path . |
| 24 | Harcourt-Reilly takes her out of her conventional life , and leads her towards a spiritual quest and eventual martyrdom . |
| 25 | There 's a somewhat lighter tone to The Wicked Lady ( 1945 ) , another big hit , in which Lockwood is the aristocratic wife whose passion for living and sense that if ‘ I ca n't live while I 'm alive , I 'll go mad ’ leads her into a double life as a highwaywoman . |
| 26 | Our very success is leading us into a dangerous future … |
| 27 | This leads us to a fundamental distinction in the character of critical judgements , a distinction between what I shall call internal and external criteria of judgement . |
| 28 | His devotional works are full of joy ; religion , he said , ‘ leads us to a huge felicity through pleasant ways ’ . |
| 29 | This leads us to a brief discussion of the developments within these fields since the time when the early sociologists were working . |
| 30 | That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion : a gesture is more individual than an individual . |