Example sentences of "led [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He went down the corridor that led off the central area .
2 ‘ Willingly , ’ Rose agreed , and led the way to a small antechamber that led off the main saloon .
3 He had the choice of half-a-dozen alleys which led off the main street and climbed to the terraces .
4 Blackburn led through a sweet 43rd minute strike from the impressive Jason Wilcox , before Boro sub Jamie Pollock changed the game .
5 Robyn twisted her head with difficulty and saw the white shirt , with legs attached presumably , going back down the path that led through the grand herbaceous borders towards the house .
6 It led past the scarred brown door of the Bogeyman 's room , where strange noises and unpleasant smells were constant reminders of danger .
7 Panton-Lewis and Forbes handed in 74s , with Stewart one stroke behind , as Japan 's Fusako Nagata led with a four-under-par round of 68 .
8 He always used the side door which led into a small office .
9 A door at the back led into a small room with a huge desk almost filling it .
10 It led into a tiny vestibule with doors on all three sides .
11 This led into a technical and commercial appraisal of European competition and the anticipated market changes over the next ten years .
12 This led into a Victorian style kitchen with a tiled floor and copper skillets hanging in the middle of the room .
13 In Toronto an immense frontage 752 ft. long had a central colonnaded entrance-way which led into a great concourse with a slightly curving coffered ceiling .
14 Jennie reminded Katharine to use the inside led into the outside rein to make him round , and to concentrate on making him bend around her inside leg .
15 Several hundred yards away , Riessa was in a strange humour as she strode down the worn steps that led into the hollow heart of the Wyrmberg , followed by half a dozen Riders .
16 In a series ‘ designed to open the door to classical music ’ , it would help if the door led into the right house !
17 He turned and went down the four steps that led into the long , dark , low-ceilinged dining room , returning a moment later with a book from the shelves .
18 It led into the plush office of Jacques Rust , head of UNACO 's European operation .
19 She had reached the top of the narrow wooden stairs that led into the single upper-storey chamber she shared with her mother .
20 Both Corbett and Ranulf were dragged unceremoniously off their horses and pushed through the main door of the house and down a passageway which led into the main room or hall .
21 Tom Tedder and Corbett Farraday were muttering by the door which led into the main school ; the headmaster , towering yet crumpled , was surrounded by a little group of teachers in the centre of his hall ; and by the door leading to the boarding quarters Mrs Crumwallis was going over the events of the night before with her cook , Mrs Garfitt .
22 She opened the door which led into the Chinese room .
23 The machine bumped up on a stony track that led in the general direction of the distant barn .
24 The paintings were evidently of no great value , but such as they were , they were genuine : a seventeenth-century Venus in oils in the drawing-room , some eighteenth-century engravings along the carpeted passage which led from the front door past the day rooms to the bedroom at the end .
25 Mercifully darkness obscured the dripping , gale-lashed countryside as we bumped our way down the unsurfaced track which led from the main road to Number Five , our new home .
26 If some of the germ lines that led from the primaeval soup had not been , to a first approximation , immortal then extant organisms would not exist .
27 Ian Smith led from the open-side flank when the Scots lost to New South Wales by 35–15 in the absence of both Sole and Hastings .
28 There is no doubt , then , that the modified theory led to no new testable consequences and would be quite unacceptable to a falsificationist .
29 It led to no new tests .
30 He had plenty of time to prepare this great phrase , for the outrage was said to have happened in 1731 and he was not asked about it until 1738 , but the delay led to no awkward questions ; by the late 1730s Parliament was growing increasingly annoyed with Spanish interference with British trade , and it was not willing to let Walpole go on with his peaceful policy .
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