Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He looked momentarily surprised and then , after throwing Luke a somewhat triumphant look , he smiled and took her by the hand , and led her through into the living-room . |
| 32 | Then , as she blushed again , he slipped an arm around her waist and led her back through the garden to the party . |
| 33 | Her heart touched on the instant by her friend 's distress , she put an arm through hers and led her back to the palace . |
| 34 | Jack finally got her and led her back to the seat , where she folded her anorak carefully , eyes still glued to the screen . |
| 35 | ‘ That 's him , then , all gone , ’ Gloria said , before a nurse came scurrying out through the doors , took her by the arm and led her back into the ward . |
| 36 | He bowed , kissed her hand , and led her down to the courtyard where their carriage waited . |
| 37 | He took her hand and led her out of the café . |
| 38 | Her eyes were only very slightly glazed as Fernando Serra tightened his grip on her hand and led her out of the Guadalquivir suite . |
| 39 | ‘ We ca n't talk here , ’ he said , and led her out of the room and into the hall . |
| 40 | He signalled to the waiter that he had put two twenty-peseta notes on the table , and led her out into the afternoon sun . |
| 41 | The sentries had been primed to admit him without challenge , Alexei noted , and as soon as his escort had dismounted a trooper wearing the gorget of a provost came out of the gatehouse and led them away towards the stables . |
| 42 | She crossed to the doorway and led them away from the shed . |
| 43 | Snorting at the friar 's apparent stupidity , Cranston turned his horse and led them out of the main alleyways of Southwark . |
| 44 | Stephen accepted the compliment and led them out onto the terrace , asking as he did so , ‘ What would you like to drink ? ’ |
| 45 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
| 46 | He beckoned and led them off between the Standing Stones . |
| 47 | Michael took the case from him and led him away to the hired car . |
| 48 | She took hold of his hand and led him over to the small bed . |
| 49 | McGowan took Jed by the arm and led him over to the cardboard box . |
| 50 | The guy let him carry his own case and led him through into the concourse where the English driver from the Embassy pool was waiting . |
| 51 | She took him by the arm and led him unresistingly into the house . |
| 52 | Senga took her brother 's hand and led him out into the hall . |
| 53 | Two policemen forcibly took her arms from around her son , and led him out to the car to join his sister . |
| 54 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 55 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 56 | He came and put his arm round my shoulders then and led me gently towards the door . |
| 57 | Its vast walls of flint and glass and Gothic tracery were brilliantly floodlit and the churchyard cat , sleek and black as tar , greeted us querulously and led us right round the church and through the gravestones at the back , glimmering and pale in the moonlight . |
| 58 | He then gave the order to move off and led us out of the abbey gate . |
| 59 | She whisked Nicandra 's large linen napkin off her knees and tied it round her waist , then joined her own to it and knotted it securely to the back of Nicandra 's chair . |
| 60 | However carefully he spoke , he still released a little dribble from the stiff site of his mouth and wiped it away with a routine gesture of his left hand . |