Example sentences of "lead [pers pn] to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philpott led them to a pale-blue door at the end of the passage . |
| 2 | At noon , the exhausted Pack gathered together and Brown Owl led them to a shady area . |
| 3 | At the top of the staircase various Chamberlains , dressed in gold embroidered jackets , welcomed the guests and led them to the Grand Master of Ceremonies . |
| 4 | And members are still less than enamoured with their district council group leader , Coun John Richardson from Willington , who led them to the disastrous defeat . |
| 5 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 6 | Anderson captained Ireland on their short tour of France , led them to an unexpected victory over a French XV and keeps the job now but age and waning powers put a question-mark over his selection for the team at all . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen . |
| 9 | Where was Um Al-Farajh , I asked him , and he led me to a large square of fir trees and pointed to the earth . |
| 10 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 11 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 12 | Just what routes will logic produce to lead me to the complete knowledge of the nature of a flea ? … |
| 13 | as if in a dream , I allowed Mrs Knelle to lead me to the front door . |
| 14 | Monie , who guided the Cherry and Whites to four successive league and Wembley doubles , narrowly failed to lead them to the Grand Slam last term after they were beaten by St Helens in the premiership final . |
| 15 | To lead you to an overwhelming question … |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | A useful outcome is the third ingredient , for what would be the point of skills that led you to a useless outcome ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And that , logically , leads me to the obvious conclusion — that I love you , and that we must be married as soon as possible . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He sobered instantly , taking her arm and leading her to the wrought-iron balcony . |
| 22 | Another Greek has cut down a Trojan who falls under the handle , leading us to the other side . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | His devotional works are full of joy ; religion , he said , ‘ leads us to a huge felicity through pleasant ways ’ . |
| 25 | This leads us to a brief discussion of the developments within these fields since the time when the early sociologists were working . |
| 26 | That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion : a gesture is more individual than an individual . |
| 27 | This leads us to the disturbing conclusion that there is a degree of subjectivity in identifying a stretch of language as discourse — it may be meaningful and thus communicate to one person in a way which another person does not have the necessary knowledge to make sense of — yet in practice we find that discourse is usually perceived as such by groups , rather than individuals . |
| 28 | He led her to a tiny table in one corner , and she resolutely ignored the fact that nearly everyone else — the place was surprisingly crowded — wore slinky and fashionable black . |
| 29 | I led her to a small shelter in the Palace side of the Park . |
| 30 | Dorothy 's acute and sympathetic judgement that Racedown summer led her to a similar conclusion almost at once . |