Example sentences of "lead [pers pn] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Secretary led them up a marble staircase , to the first floor ; then along a lofty corridor with a moulded cornice , to the back of the building . |
| 2 | Barak led them up a narrow concrete path to the unpainted door and opened it . |
| 3 | Lady Horne led them up a stone-vaulted passageway into a comfortable but cold solar . |
| 4 | Gloria led them along a brick path , across a cobbled courtyard , past outhouses and a dripping water butt , then into the big house and along many passages . |
| 5 | They must have walked for about another ten minutes and could glimpse the blue wood-smoke rising above the trees from Godstowe village when suddenly the porter stopped , turned left , and led them along a narrow beaten trackway into the forest . |
| 6 | Eventually he paused to lead her along a side-track where the hanging vines reached out to cling about them . |
| 7 | At the end Polyxena looks back as Akamas leads her away a prisoner . |
| 8 | Wilcox led her up a twisted and worn steel staircase to a prefabricated office perched on stilts in the middle of the building , and introduced her to the general manager , Tom Rigby , who looked her up and down once and then ignored her . |
| 9 | She led her up a stone staircase into a small room where Brownies were sitting on wooden toadstools . |
| 10 | He led her down a row , then came to a halt . |
| 11 | He led her along a cold flagged corridor now , where the walls gleamed faintly with phosphorescence , and where , although wall sconces flared bravely , the light was greenish and lack-lustre , so that it was rather like walking under water . |
| 12 | And , having decided upon that fact , he took her arm and led her along a track she had not previously explored . |
| 13 | The priest led him down a passage , knocked and opened the door and entered the room . |
| 14 | Soon the path led him down a very steep hillside . |
| 15 | The route they had taken into the underground passages had led them along a wide , high-ceilinged passageway that was easy to negotiate . |
| 16 | Moments later he had led her up a short stairway , through the heavily bolted door at the top , and out of the building , and Isabel had recognised the alley leading to the wash-houses and pressing-rooms , which lay between the towering keep and the curtain wall . |
| 17 | The Dalek Killer 's led us up a blind alley . ’ |
| 18 | They led us up a series of side streets to a post office near the station . |
| 19 | A Fatah officer with long , dirty hair led us down a slit trench cut into the soft , red earth . |
| 20 | After dropping 100m in about 4.5 miles , a sneaky left hand turn ( just after you come to some dry stone walls ) led us down a long rough track to the Low Mill — Gillamoor road . |
| 21 | Bertie led us down a sloping alleyway to a heavy door where we left our shoes . |