Example sentences of "lead he [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Boy had to do now was not walk down those streets , but stand still and choose amongst their inhabitants , choose the right one to follow , the right one to lead him in the next stage of his journey or wandering through the city . |
| 2 | ‘ I fancy you , Matt , ’ Georgina said , leading him through the crowded room . |
| 3 | The next moment he was inside and she was closing the door behind him , then leading him along the narrow hallway towards the living-room . |
| 4 | His family situation led him to the inescapable conclusion that the world was a hostile , alien environment in which was concealed the terrible presence of death , and in which the hopes , convictions and aspirations of men could be dashed by the unforeseeable and irreversible consequences of a malevolent destiny . |
| 5 | She led him to the dismal apartment rented to her by Louis . |
| 6 | Eventually , his wanderings led him to the ornate frontage of a steam-house . |
| 7 | They led him through the great court and round the cloister to the flank of the east end of the church , where the mitred graves of the abbots lay . |
| 8 | She led him through the main tannery to where a pile of raw sheep skins lay , and still with her light eyes on him lay down . |
| 9 | Jos led him across the dark yard to a set of double doors , near the old Lagonda . |
| 10 | Corbett stared at him and looked away , the tension between them broken by the Pictish leader who took Thomas by the hand , like a child with a parent , and led him into the largest house , beckoning Corbett to follow them . |
| 11 | She led him into the comfortable drawing-room at the front of the house , and disappeared . |
| 12 | Then gradually , imperceptibly , she led him into the trickier terrain of the past . |
| 13 | She led him into the semicircular hall with its high vaulted ceiling from which a chandelier threw its bright light over the pale lemon and white walls . |
| 14 | Colin inspected the room looking for the clues , looking for the vital piece of information that would lead him to the same conclusion as Smith . |
| 15 | After an initial hesitation in December that lasted no more than forty-eight hours , the King 's sense of fair play had led him to the same conclusion . |
| 16 | It has led him from the brooding atmosphere of his early novels to the limpid clarity of his last . |