Example sentences of "[vb past] lead [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last he unlocked a heavily carved door , and after a moment Meredith saw that he 'd led her into a large office with plaster frescos and a glorious ceiling of painted angels hung with gilded chandeliers . |
| 2 | Johnny 's double standards , and his entrenched belief in the superiority of the male , had led her into an angry tirade of defence designed only to prove that she was exactly the cheap little tart that he so obviously thought her.Their relationship seemed to be increasingly an exercise in one-upmanship : my time 's better than yours ; so there ! |
| 3 | ‘ Who are you ? ’ the teenager asked after he had led her into the main concourse . |
| 4 | A young , innocent man , very knowledgeable about ferrets , the driver had led me across a scrubby field that led to the riverbank and had then triumphantly pointed to a weathered stone below a thorn bush . |
| 5 | I was slumped against him , almost fainting , conscious only that he had led me behind a red-brick loggia , obviously so that we would be out of sight of the people in the main concourse while he dispatched me . |
| 6 | Kitson was a prolific inventor whose own difficulties in financing and manufacturing his patents had led him to a radical critique of the banking system . |
| 7 | After an initial hesitation in December that lasted no more than forty-eight hours , the King 's sense of fair play had led him to the same conclusion . |
| 8 | Their one real clue from the Executive killings had led them to a small Ping Tiao cell in the Mids fifty li south of Bremen . |