Example sentences of "lead [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She led them slowly through the graveyard to the burial site . |
| 2 | The sentries had been primed to admit him without challenge , Alexei noted , and as soon as his escort had dismounted a trooper wearing the gorget of a provost came out of the gatehouse and led them away towards the stables . |
| 3 | She crossed to the doorway and led them away from the shed . |
| 4 | The porter took care of their horses and Lady Amelia , walking like a ghost before them , led them across to the guest house . |
| 5 | He came and put his arm round my shoulders then and led me gently towards the door . |
| 6 | ‘ Someone who may be able to lead me right to the heart of the operation , ’ he said softly . |
| 7 | Returning to London , and influenced by Ruskin and Octavia Hill , she went to work as a volunteer at a number of slum-housing projects around Marylebone , where her contributions ranged from carpentry to moral tutoring and advising the poor of the district on careers , and attempting to lead them away from the evils of alcohol . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , do n't be ridiculous , Giles , calm down , calm down , come and have a nice Perrier water , ’ said Liz , taking his other arm , and , with Kate , attempting to lead him away from the fracas , as one would a child in a playground from its tormentor ( for Giles 's antagonist Paul Hargreaves , pale faced , dark suited , silver-grey tied , was smiling calmly with a horrible amusement at this distressing scene ) : but the desperate Giles was beyond leading , and fell back heavily as he attempted to disengage himself from his two intercessors , crashing into a large fern and some pots of bulbs and sending earth and splashes of champagne over the carpet . |
| 9 | In 1638 the commoners found a champion of their causes in a local farmer whose career was ultimately to lead him far beyond the battles of the wetlands . |
| 10 | Wogan handled the interview very well , leading me gently through the facts of John 's abduction and why we disagreed with the Government . |
| 11 | The hon. Member for Tayside , North ( Mr. Walker ) talked about subsidies , and that leads me straight to the idea which has sometimes been muttered during the debate — that the mines should not have a subsidy . |
| 12 | She skips and twists among them , sniffing their hind-quarters , until at last she finds the two she seeks , her own young , and leads them away to the shade of a bush and there lets them suckle . |
| 13 | As soon as the chicks are mobile , she leads them away from the nest and down to the shore . |
| 14 | That leads you right onto the south fields . |
| 15 | The wrong turns provide additional boundaries and constraints as the exercise proceeds , leading him ultimately to the same goal . |
| 16 | She had not killed him , she was leading him away from the open mouth of the cave and towards the distant city . |
| 17 | Taking his curtain calls after a successful speech , he drew her to him by the hand and entwined his arms with hers until she gently shook him off , whereupon he enjoyed his triumph for a while manfully alone , until he again resorted to his wife Glenys , going to fetch her , leading her again by the hand , and holding her by the waist . |
| 18 | Some of the same movements are repeated yet again in the final pas de deux , when the Prince raises her high above the glistening Stars before leading her away to the land where ‘ they lived happily ever after ’ , where all fairy tales should end . |
| 19 | ‘ Take what , ma'am ? ’ asked Theda , leading her away down the gallery . |
| 20 | One Saturday evening she takes Howard by the arm and leads him away from the crowd round the pool and the bar , out of everyone 's earshot . |
| 21 | I was n't afraid of Elizabeth but I was frightened of her mother and I was glad the nuns were leading us away from the road where she lived . |
| 22 | This leads us directly onto the argument based on the manifesto . |
| 23 | This view is pervasive amongst ordinary members of the RUC and leads us directly to the issue of how Northern Ireland 's divisions affect policemen and women , which the following chapters begin to address . |
| 24 | Such criticism leads us directly to the higher plains of aestheticism from where it becomes possible to adopt a universal outlook , a point of view based on the sort of timeless values that enable one to study objectively ( unsentimentally , unemotionally and ‘ without rancour ’ ) the lower depths of social reality . |
| 25 | This leads us directly to the topic of symbols and their meanings . |
| 26 | This last point leads us directly to the question of the problematic ending to the story . |
| 27 | When he led her away down the back steps the Tibetan followed and so did most of the crowd . |
| 28 | Apparently Richard thought so , too , for after a moment he led her away to the bar . |
| 29 | He took her arm and led her away from the entrance . |
| 30 | When they arrived at the barn , he led her silently by the hand , through the living-room , and then up along the gallery to his bedroom . |