Example sentences of "lead [pers pn] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Lady Horne led them up a stone-vaulted passageway into a comfortable but cold solar .
2 It was he who held the troops together in their communal dormitory , and it was he who led them out the next morning .
3 He led me up the cobbled yard and opened the door of one of the houses .
4 For some reason he remembered old Doyle , the gardener , dead now for thirty years , leading him up the same pathway round to the back door and into the kitchen for the mid-morning cup of tea .
5 Perry leads us up the unlit stairwell , the smell of urine sharp in our nostrils .
6 Drawing her to her feet , he led her up the wide staircase to a comfortable oak-panelled bedroom which overlooked the eucalyptus trees in the garden .
7 She had no problem in finding the turning which led her along an unadopted road for half a mile before she drove through open gates up a steeply ascending drive past lawns on several different levels until she finally reached a gravelled circle in front of Penry 's house .
8 Moments later he had led her up a short stairway , through the heavily bolted door at the top , and out of the building , and Isabel had recognised the alley leading to the wash-houses and pressing-rooms , which lay between the towering keep and the curtain wall .
9 The Dalek Killer 's led us up a blind alley . ’
10 Bertie led us down a sloping alleyway to a heavy door where we left our shoes .
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