Example sentences of "[vb past] they 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 | Working the 2 Step programme becomes progressively more relevant on a daily basis in the recognition that it provides such a superb philosophy of life than many recovering people come to consider that they were fortunate to have addictive disease because it led them to the 12 Step Programme . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The group did not exercise its rights but sold them to a third party for £200,000 . |
| 9 | It closed the banks and immediately sold them to the Richmond-based Signet Banking Corp . |
| 10 | Typically then they operate to defeat the title of the unpaid seller ( let us call him C ) who has entrusted his goods to a buyer who , without paying C , has in turn sold them to an innocent purchaser . |
| 11 | Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league … maybe Keith Scott can keep them there ! |
| 12 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |
| 13 | He helped them to a waiting car and drove to nearby St Thomas 's Hospital . |
| 14 | His goal and guidence helped them to the Premier League . |
| 15 | Despite this , on the marshy peat fens , even limited traffic reduced them to an impassable morass for long periods of the year . |
| 16 | And then he 'd maybe see two small boys holding hands , and the Holy Spirit would be forgotten while he hauled the bewildered pair out in front of the rest of the class and subjected them to a blistering rain of sarcasm . |
| 17 | Dad drove them to a big hotel and Jane and Mike were there already waiting for them . |
| 18 | An armed gang of fans of Umtata Bucks surrounded Da Silva 's house in Umtata , ordered him and his family to pack their bags , drove them to the local airport , gave them tickets and cash and forced them aboard a Johannesburg-bound flight . |
| 19 | Naturally Terry had hard-line views on all this , and as we changed for the show on that charged night he proclaimed them to the entire cast , as if he were addressing a meeting . |
| 20 | She lifted the clothes out of the pot on the end of the pole and transferred them to a fresh-water butt to rinse . |
| 21 | His dazzling skills lifted them to a four-goal victory as he scored one and set up two of his striking partner Kevin Campbell 's three goals . |
| 22 | The receptionist directed them to a private ward on the third floor . |
| 23 | After a dry tour , the brewery directed them to the local pub — which sells a RIVAL brew . |
| 24 | It was easier to follow in the darkness , but exposed them to the full force of the wind and rain . |
| 25 | Alyssia blew some of the flyaway blonde strands away from her face and followed them to a small table at the back of the café , hoping that she would not have to endure half an hour of French conversation while she sat on the sidelines , wondering whether what they were discussing was really as animated and interesting as it appeared . |
| 26 | He seemed bereft of sense as he pulled ribboned holly sprays from the walls and fed them to a sulky fire , cheering as they crackled and spurted heatless flame up the chimney . |
| 27 | Meredith-Lee waved them to a comfortable sofa and sat down in an armchair opposite . |
| 28 | They coughed their way through All Things Bright and Beautiful , and when they came to the bit about ‘ God made them high and lowly , and ordered their estate , ’ he waved them to an unceremonious halt and plunged into his sermon : |
| 29 | Australia , put in on the new surface , struggled : both openers played on , and with Border collecting his second duck of the series , the home side slumped to 81 for 6 before the Victorians , Jones and Hughes , steered them to the relative prosperity of 145 all out . |
| 30 | A lift up to the Llanberris path and a hot and sweaty flog in competition with another party — evidently intent on the same prize — brought them to the brooding llyn and awesome amphitheatre of Arddu . |