Example sentences of "lead me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith Lascelles took my hand , squeezing it reassuringly as he led me across the stage , up the wide stairway dividing the orchestra , and left me to arrange myself on the rostrum . |
| 2 | She led me into the pink-and-green chintzy sitting-room where Harry , pale with blue shadows below the eyes , sat in an armchair with his bandaged leg elevated on a large upholstered footstool . |
| 3 | Then the old lady took me firmly by the arm and led me into the bathroom . |
| 4 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 5 | He led me into the hut he had just come out of |
| 6 | She led me into the kind of large room that Americans call studios . |
| 7 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mrs Aboud led me to the balcony from where it was evident that many of the surrounding buildings — like those elsewhere in the Arab quarter — had been devastated , their roofs smashed in and their windows punched out of their frames . |
| 10 | My searches even led me to the absurdity of being directed to the deep freeze in one newsagent when I asked for Spare Rib . |
| 11 | I checked my hexagram against the index , which led me to the pages headed Ta Kuo : Preponderance of the Great . |
| 12 | And her white Reeboks screeched at the marble as she turned and led me to the waiting forms . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | She frowned for a moment , then picked up my hand and led me to the window . |
| 15 | Although this is an isolated example it is typical of the problems I encountered and which led me to the conclusion that the product simply is n't ready for release into the market in its current form . |
| 16 | But he raised his left hand again , this time to silence me ; took my arm and led me to the edge of the colonnade . |
| 17 | The sad consequence on the children 's lives of the circumstances of their birth led me to the conclusion that pregnancy in elderly women might not be appropriate and the whole programme was stopped . |
| 18 | When I said that I did , he led me up the narrow street to the church and unlocked the ancient door . |
| 19 | And so saying , he led me over the fields to his childhood home . |
| 20 | He grasped my elbow and led me through the hallway and into a long room knocked through the whole length of the house . |
| 21 | Alison led me through the hall into the kitchen , a sprawling space with a flagstone floor dominated by a huge table , a Welsh dresser and rows of large cupboards . |
| 22 | She led me through the throng . |
| 23 | He led me through the narrow alleys of the Old City until we came to a lane barely two feet wide . |
| 24 | They made respectful way for him as he led me through the village to a longhouse standing apart from the others . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | And he led me towards the hills |
| 27 | I have sometimes gone into it when the King was absent from Delhi and once pretty far I thought , for the purpose of giving my advice in the case of a great lady so ill that she could not be moved to the outward gate ; but a Kachemire shawl covered my head , hanging like a large scarfe down to my feet , and a eunuch led me by the hand , as if I had been a blind man . |
| 28 | A shadow fell across my sunny table and I looked up to find Kenneth who 'd been on a recce of the hospital , so after a lunch of ribs , skins , wings and blueberry pie , he was able to lead me through the appropriate doors of the vast , multi-entranced building . |
| 29 | Just what routes will logic produce to lead me to the complete knowledge of the nature of a flea ? … |
| 30 | as if in a dream , I allowed Mrs Knelle to lead me to the front door . |