Example sentences of "led [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 | A useful outcome is the third ingredient , for what would be the point of skills that led you to a useless outcome ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I led her to a small shelter in the Palace side of the Park . |
| 15 | Dorothy 's acute and sympathetic judgement that Racedown summer led her to a similar conclusion almost at once . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He led her to a waiting taxi and , as he held the door for her , for a brief instant their eyes met . |
| 18 | Meredith 's mouth was open beneath her mask as Lucenzo imperiously led her to a favoured seat , followed by a posse of attentive waiters . |
| 19 | He led her to the far room where she had found Leo . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This led her to the alarming conclusion that it was not they who were bigger , but she who was smaller — and a lot smaller . |
| 22 | Whether or not her swingometer led her to an appropriate purchasing decision , he has n't heard ; in fact , she was dowsing only the organic wines , so it was n't a completely random process . |
| 23 | The ‘ thing ’ led him to a certain way of thinking . |
| 24 | Someone grabbed his arm , and led him to a waiting horse on which he galloped away leaving behind his winnings . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She led him to the dismal apartment rented to her by Louis . |
| 27 | Eventually , his wanderings led him to the ornate frontage of a steam-house . |
| 28 | Many aspects of his analysis were similar to those advanced by Blauner , but they led him to an opposite conclusion . |
| 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 | She led us to an unmarked oak door which opened into a short corridor , obviously a modern extension to the farmhouse . |