Example sentences of "led [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | It led past the scarred brown door of the Bogeyman 's room , where strange noises and unpleasant smells were constant reminders of danger . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In a series ‘ designed to open the door to classical music ’ , it would help if the door led into the right house ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It led into the plush office of Jacques Rust , head of UNACO 's European operation . |
| 11 | She had reached the top of the narrow wooden stairs that led into the single upper-storey chamber she shared with her mother . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She opened the door which led into the Chinese room . |
| 15 | The machine bumped up on a stony track that led in the general direction of the distant barn . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Miranda lay half asleep on a sofa in front of her sitting-room window , which looked down on the Place de la République ; from there , the road led to the distant perfume factory which Miranda wanted to buy . |
| 21 | A similar willingness to perform radical treatment for breast cancer in the absence of evidence from randomised trials led to the misguided mutilation of thousands of women by radical mastectomy . |
| 22 | Point Three , the main bone of contention between the two sides , led to the total demilitarization of the Black Sea . |
| 23 | Bacci and the Marshal were staring in at the uncurtained window below the steps that led to the front door . |
| 24 | They walked up the steps that led to the front door . |
| 25 | She followed a makeshift , stepping-stone path , through a rapidly deepening quagmire of mud which led to the front door , and knocked loud and firm upon the solid oak panels . |
| 26 | The gravelled drive split into two ; one branch led to the front door , the other to the back of the house and , according to a finger post , to waiting room and surgery . |
| 27 | ‘ This way , ’ he was instructing , leading her on brisk strides up the double stone staircase that led to the front door . |
| 28 | Tony 's feet crunched over white pebbles , on the path that led to the front door of the insurance company where he spent seven hours a day hunched over claim-forms . |
| 29 | An ancient staircase led to the upper floors of the building , and beyond that , the long hall opened into a large , well-lit room . |
| 30 | The references to professors and their books led to the predictable conclusion : ‘ On the Black issue our verdict is based on the facts , we have judged the case on the evidence , fairly , and come to the only just conclusions . ’ |