Example sentences of "lead [pron] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was he who held the troops together in their communal dormitory , and it was he who led them out the next morning . |
| 2 | He led me up the cobbled yard and opened the door of one of the houses . |
| 3 | For some reason he remembered old Doyle , the gardener , dead now for thirty years , leading him up the same pathway round to the back door and into the kitchen for the mid-morning cup of tea . |
| 4 | Perry leads us up the unlit stairwell , the smell of urine sharp in our nostrils . |
| 5 | Drawing her to her feet , he led her up the wide staircase to a comfortable oak-panelled bedroom which overlooked the eucalyptus trees in the garden . |
| 6 | Wilcox led her down the broad central aisle , with occasional detours to left and right to point out some particular operation . |
| 7 | She jangled a ring of keys , opened the door and led him up the bare , creaking stairway which climbed steeply out of the hallway . |