Example sentences of "lead i [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He led me through to the next room , and up against the wall there lay a stack of some ten to fifteen canvases . |
| 2 | But her eyes were fail of pain as she led me through to the lounge . |
| 3 | Now , " he said , placing a creaky arm across my shoulders as he led me through to the parlour , " I want you to meet Vron . " |
| 4 | That young girl yesterday led me on , whatever she says . |
| 5 | She led me on , instructing me , indicating her desires with soft tweaks and softer pats . |
| 6 | You encouraged me , you led me on . |
| 7 | Now you 're trying to say that you led me on out of concern for him — ’ |
| 8 | If you say , as sometimes judges in Court cases do , sometimes child abusers do , oh she led me on , she was eager and willing , oh she erm , well judges do n't actually say it in the first person , do they , usually ? |
| 9 | He led me up the cobbled yard and opened the door of one of the houses . |
| 10 | Ward had his camera with him , and though he led me round at a breathless pace , talking all the time about the terrible religious cult of the Aztecs , he also took quite a few pictures , usually with myself or some other human in the foreground to give an indication of the scale of the place . |
| 11 | When she was satisfied with the state of the blaze Laura led me round to the side of the kiln , removed the bung and gestured for me to look in . |
| 12 | ‘ Are you all right , darling ? ’ he asked , and led me along to my son 's house ! |
| 13 | He led me out into the snow and we crossed the island towards the beach . |
| 14 | ‘ Good night , gentlemen ! ’ he called out merrily , and humming a hymn , led me out of the room . |
| 15 | Then , one afternoon , Didier led me down the rue de Fleuve to the cemetery . |
| 16 | He led me down the hallway and into the communal kitchen . |
| 17 | ‘ And then there 's George Harrison on ‘ All Things Must Pass ’ , and The Stones ; I was a massive Stones fan , and like a lot of white middle-class American kids , it was The Stones that led me back into listening to a lot of early blues . |
| 18 | He led me back through the empty-ward to the other end . |
| 19 | Oxford led me back to Nottingham : whilst at St Antony 's I came across some pamphlets published by Spokesman — the imprint of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Ltd , where I have spent nine of the last twelve years . |
| 20 | He led me back to the dining hall , vast and empty save for my two friends . |
| 21 | I was still trembling when I reached the barn and hardly said a word as Mr Bailes led me back across the road to the farm . |
| 22 | As Fielding led me back to our table I made a powerfully worded verbal pass at a salacious waitress , who appeared to be all for it but then came down with some deep sorrow in the kitchen , and when I burst through the double-doors to console her two men in sweat-grey T-shirts assured me there was nothing I could do for the poor child . |
| 23 | Once he had gone , Benjamin led me back to the stable . |
| 24 | He led me back into the house and up to Southgate 's chamber . |
| 25 | Benjamin rose and , slipping his arm through mine , led me back to the garden , teasing me into a good mood as he explained how he had found Waldegrave drunk as a lord and insensible as a rock in a corner of his opulent chapel . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Mrs Rumney was shout to lead me through to the kitchen when the door burst open and Cedric bounded delightedly into the midst of the company . |
| 28 | ‘ I think it is lovely — very perfect , ’ and he took my hand to lead me out , rattling off some Arabic which was too fast for me to catch but not too fast for the friends with him . |
| 29 | I said my goodbyes to the head of the House of Timur ; Pakeezah offered to lead me back through the labyrinth of Daryaganj to the Faiz Bazaar . |
| 30 | ‘ Talk about leading me up the garden path ! |