Example sentences of "he led [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | He led her to a shady café , where small tables were set out in the shadow of some tall plane trees , whose leafy patterns fell over the white tables . |
3 | He led her to a waiting taxi and , as he held the door for her , for a brief instant their eyes met . |
4 | He led her to the far room where she had found Leo . |
5 | He led her to the last desk in the line , on which she could see a sheaf of pink sheets of paper . |
6 | Placing a hand on her shoulder , he led her to an ornate , gilded mirror hanging above the carved stone fireplace . |
7 | He did n't speak as he led her through a stone-floored hallway to a sweeping staircase . |
8 | He led her through the crowded flat to the kitchen and poured her a glass of wine . |
9 | ‘ Pringle 's used to have a Directors ' Dining Room , with their own cook , ’ Wilcox explained as he led her through the drab corridors of the administration block , and out across a yard where fresh snow was already covering the footpath that had been cleared . |
10 | He led her at a good trot through the country lanes , by Bramfield and Tattle Hill , through Thieves Lane to Hertingfordbury . |
11 | He led her into a large room where a floor-to-ceiling window gave out on a garden dominated by a fountain and a single curving oak , its tracery of branches lavish against the steel grey sky . |
12 | As he led her towards the wood-and-thatch building by the roadside , Isabel contemplated another night in fitzAlan 's company . |
13 | When I said that I did , he led me up the narrow street to the church and unlocked the ancient door . |
14 | He led me through the narrow alleys of the Old City until we came to a lane barely two feet wide . |
15 | As he led me through the back door and on to the waste ground he used as an unofficial parking lot , he said : ‘ Good runner , only thirty thousand on the clock . ’ |
16 | He led me to a long , low building . |
17 | Where was Um Al-Farajh , I asked him , and he led me to a large square of fir trees and pointed to the earth . |
18 | He led me to a large , upright scallop of rock . |
19 | The rest clambered into their saddles , and followed him unquestioningly as he led them at a canter downslope to where the hills opened out and patches of ground could be seen where the snow was melting . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | He led them into a small , more comfortable room behind the great hall where a fire burnt in the canopied hearth ; it was cosier and not so forbidding , with its wood-panelled walls and high-backed chairs arranged in a semi-circle around the hearth . |
23 | ‘ We are a scientific community , ’ he said as he led them into a dismal cavernous hall , ‘ and also a spiritual one . ’ |
24 | And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim . |
25 | A porter opened the double-barred gate , shouting a welcome to the Santerres as he led us along the old causeway which wound past birch , oak and yew trees up to the front of the house . |
26 | He led us up a steep track until we were 1,000 feet above the long Lochranza inlet . |