Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr. Welch recommended them to the committee , who noted the report but took no further action . |
| 2 | Philpott led them to a pale-blue door at the end of the passage . |
| 3 | The junior led them to a trooper lying plastron up some distance from the others . |
| 4 | He led them to a dugout canoe half a mile downstream , and they poled slowly across to the other bank . |
| 5 | At noon , the exhausted Pack gathered together and Brown Owl led them to a shady area . |
| 6 | Quickly he led them to a table , produced menus and wine , but deep in her despairing heart Alex was convinced that it was the surprise of someone seeing a customer who had already been in once that evening . |
| 7 | That led them to a Kamalian whose secretions matched the saliva found at the scene of the crime . ’ |
| 8 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 9 | It was precisely their erudition , their cultivation , their financial security , their disdain for the mediocre that led them to the gas chambers . |
| 10 | At the top of the staircase various Chamberlains , dressed in gold embroidered jackets , welcomed the guests and led them to the Grand Master of Ceremonies . |
| 11 | The choice of Natal is strange as captain Craig Jamieson , the man who led them to the Cup in 1990 , is still very much involved in rugby . |
| 12 | One of the crooks was picked up half-a-mile away and he led them to the tot who was sitting unhurt on a pedestrian walkway . |
| 13 | Talbot led them to the wardroom and gestured them to their seats . |
| 14 | Myeloski led them to the room where the girl had been found . |
| 15 | He gestured towards the table with an amiable smile and led them to the gate . |
| 16 | Working the 2 Step programme becomes progressively more relevant on a daily basis in the recognition that it provides such a superb philosophy of life than many recovering people come to consider that they were fortunate to have addictive disease because it led them to the 12 Step Programme . |
| 17 | Cross and Bevan 's interest in the chemistry of cellulose led them to the study of the viscose solutions produced by treating cellulose with a strong solution of caustic soda and then carbon disulphide vapour . |
| 18 | Skirting the marshy end , they slowly climbed the gentle slope on the other side to join the carriage drive which led them to the stable . |
| 19 | The count simply abandoned the small , expensive aircraft and led them to the car . |
| 20 | He led them to the er , first British title for a European trophy , and erm , eventually er , he also was a member of the Northern Ireland team that actually reached the quarter-finals in the nineteen fifty eight World Cup . |
| 21 | Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) . |
| 22 | And members are still less than enamoured with their district council group leader , Coun John Richardson from Willington , who led them to the disastrous defeat . |
| 23 | In the 17 hours they were missing after losing their way , they trudged the forest to keep up their body heat until they eventually reached a path with white arrows which led them to the edge of the forest . |
| 24 | Anderson captained Ireland on their short tour of France , led them to an unexpected victory over a French XV and keeps the job now but age and waning powers put a question-mark over his selection for the team at all . |
| 25 | They had a vaporised block that led them to an idée fixe about test-tube fusion being real . |
| 26 | He caught me around the waist and flung me to the floor . |
| 27 | It was only after the demise of the ruling reptiles that the class had the opportunity to capitalize on the evolutionary advantages which propelled them to the dominance they have enjoyed ever since . |
| 28 | Pahdra Singh mounted the pavement in his Bentley this morning and pinned me to the window of the Wimpy Bar . |
| 29 | She asked me to a cocktail-party to which I did n't want to go , so I said I had a cold which was n't true at the time but knowing my chest I guessed that I should have a bronchial cough at any moment and so I did . |
| 30 | I mean I could choose not to do an album , but when they asked me to an album that was exciting to say yes . |