Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr. Welch recommended them to the committee , who noted the report but took no further action . |
| 2 | The junior led them to a trooper lying plastron up some distance from the others . |
| 3 | That led them to a Kamalian whose secretions matched the saliva found at the scene of the crime . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He led them to a dugout canoe half a mile downstream , and they poled slowly across to the other bank . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was precisely their erudition , their cultivation , their financial security , their disdain for the mediocre that led them to the gas chambers . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | Talbot led them to the wardroom and gestured them to their seats . |
| 11 | He gestured towards the table with an amiable smile and led them to the gate . |
| 12 | Myeloski led them to the room where the girl had been found . |
| 13 | The count simply abandoned the small , expensive aircraft and led them to the car . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He caught me around the waist and flung me to the floor . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Pahdra Singh mounted the pavement in his Bentley this morning and pinned me to the window of the Wimpy Bar . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I mean I could choose not to do an album , but when they asked me to an album that was exciting to say yes . |
| 22 | In the first two weeks I sat down , worked out the six major things I needed to do and tabled them to the group executive within six weeks . |
| 23 | Harvey led me to a room which he unlocked with a key . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll call back at noon , ’ he said to the buttons on her breast pockets , and she led me to a changing room full of paper nighties before turning to greet the next chicken on the conveyor belt and rewinding the tape to : ‘ Hi there , welcome to Surgicentre . |
| 25 | Instead of going over to Pyke , Terry led me to a corner table among the old men who drank alone every night , and there he calmly sucked his roll-ups as we sipped our usual pint with a whisky chaser . |
| 26 | ‘ The warder came and told me to dress and led me to an officer of the court , ’ the small , self-effacing lawyer recalled in an interview on Saturday . |
| 27 | But he raised his left hand again , this time to silence me ; took my arm and led me to the edge of the colonnade . |
| 28 | Mrs Aboud led me to the balcony from where it was evident that many of the surrounding buildings — like those elsewhere in the Arab quarter — had been devastated , their roofs smashed in and their windows punched out of their frames . |
| 29 | My searches even led me to the absurdity of being directed to the deep freeze in one newsagent when I asked for Spare Rib . |
| 30 | I checked my hexagram against the index , which led me to the pages headed Ta Kuo : Preponderance of the Great . |