Example sentences of "led [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes . |
| 5 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 6 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | When I said that I did , he led me up the narrow street to the church and unlocked the ancient door . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Then he took Victoria 's hand and led her towards the strange woman . |
| 12 | As he led her towards the wood-and-thatch building by the roadside , Isabel contemplated another night in fitzAlan 's company . |
| 13 | Sex education as a subject is important in any discussion of the work of Mrs Whitehouse , because her experiences of it as a teacher and parent , indirectly , if not directly , led her into the public domain of the politics of sexual morality . |
| 14 | He saw her state at once and without another word took her arm and led her into the little sitting room . |
| 15 | The guide led her into the air-conditioned jewellery shop and held out the box to a sales assistant . |
| 16 | He led her through the crowded flat to the kitchen and poured her a glass of wine . |
| 17 | He led her to the far room where she had found Leo . |
| 18 | He took her hand and led her to the open-air dance-floor just as the band slipped into the first of their slow numbers . |
| 19 | This led her to the alarming conclusion that it was not they who were bigger , but she who was smaller — and a lot smaller . |
| 20 | Skirting the lakeside , she took a route which led her in the opposite direction from him . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She led him to the dismal apartment rented to her by Louis . |
| 23 | Eventually , his wanderings led him to the ornate frontage of a steam-house . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Jos led him across the dark yard to a set of double doors , near the old Lagonda . |
| 27 | She led him into the comfortable drawing-room at the front of the house , and disappeared . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Networks operating on this principle perform an operation that is likely to be extremely important for the neocortex , and it was actually the search for a mechanism that would do this that led us to the suggested modification rule : the modifiable interconnections tend to make the representative elements become uncorrelated , and thus to signal independently of each other . |
| 30 | Finally , still silent , she turned and led us into the main room . |