Example sentences of "led [pers pn] [adv prt] [art] " 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 Von Karajan made some loose , ethereal movement which the strings understood and the first fiddle led them up the sweep .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 It was he who held the troops together in their communal dormitory , and it was he who led them out the next morning .
8 He led me up the cobbled yard and opened the door of one of the houses .
9 Then , one afternoon , Didier led me down the rue de Fleuve to the cemetery .
10 He led me down the hallway and into the communal kitchen .
11 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 .
12 She led her up a stone staircase into a small room where Brownies were sitting on wooden toadstools .
13 Drawing her to her feet , he led her up the wide staircase to a comfortable oak-panelled bedroom which overlooked the eucalyptus trees in the garden .
14 He led her down a row , then came to a halt .
15 Wilcox led her down the broad central aisle , with occasional detours to left and right to point out some particular operation .
16 When he returned with her case , she was ready and he led her down the hall , through the emergency exit , past the sleeping night porter in his little room and into the car-park .
17 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 .
18 And , having decided upon that fact , he took her arm and led her along a track she had not previously explored .
19 She had no problem in finding the turning which led her along an unadopted road for half a mile before she drove through open gates up a steeply ascending drive past lawns on several different levels until she finally reached a gravelled circle in front of Penry 's house .
20 She jangled a ring of keys , opened the door and led him up the bare , creaking stairway which climbed steeply out of the hallway .
21 I merely led him up the garden path ; he is perhaps still wondering whether there be an anatomical difference — let us say from the vertical to the horizontal — in respect of a love-making position .
22 Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed .
23 Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed .
24 The priest led him down a passage , knocked and opened the door and entered the room .
25 Soon the path led him down a very steep hillside .
26 The men led him down an alleyway , stinking from dog urine and heaps of excrement .
27 The butler led him down the hall to a veneered door which he opened .
28 Athelstan led him down the cold , darkened passageway and into the small chamber .
29 Sometime after , pleasantly exhausted , I collected my horse from the stable , saddled it and led it down the causeway out of the manor gate .
30 They led us up a series of side streets to a post office near the station .
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