Example sentences of "lead [pers pn] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Horne led them up a stone-vaulted passageway into a comfortable but cold solar . |
| 2 | Barak led them up a narrow concrete path to the unpainted door and opened it . |
| 3 | They must have walked for about another ten minutes and could glimpse the blue wood-smoke rising above the trees from Godstowe village when suddenly the porter stopped , turned left , and led them along a narrow beaten trackway into the forest . |
| 4 | It was he who held the troops together in their communal dormitory , and it was he who led them out the next morning . |
| 5 | He led me up the cobbled yard and opened the door of one of the houses . |
| 6 | Eventually he paused to lead her along a side-track where the hanging vines reached out to cling about them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Perry leads us up the unlit stairwell , the smell of urine sharp in our nostrils . |
| 9 | Wilcox led her up a twisted and worn steel staircase to a prefabricated office perched on stilts in the middle of the building , and introduced her to the general manager , Tom Rigby , who looked her up and down once and then ignored her . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Wilcox led her down the broad central aisle , with occasional detours to left and right to point out some particular operation . |
| 12 | He led her along a cold flagged corridor now , where the walls gleamed faintly with phosphorescence , and where , although wall sconces flared bravely , the light was greenish and lack-lustre , so that it was rather like walking under water . |
| 13 | She had no problem in finding the turning which led her along an unadopted road for half a mile before she drove through open gates up a steeply ascending drive past lawns on several different levels until she finally reached a gravelled circle in front of Penry 's house . |
| 14 | She jangled a ring of keys , opened the door and led him up the bare , creaking stairway which climbed steeply out of the hallway . |
| 15 | The route they had taken into the underground passages had led them along a wide , high-ceilinged passageway that was easy to negotiate . |
| 16 | Moments later he had led her up a short stairway , through the heavily bolted door at the top , and out of the building , and Isabel had recognised the alley leading to the wash-houses and pressing-rooms , which lay between the towering keep and the curtain wall . |
| 17 | The Dalek Killer 's led us up a blind alley . ’ |
| 18 | After dropping 100m in about 4.5 miles , a sneaky left hand turn ( just after you come to some dry stone walls ) led us down a long rough track to the Low Mill — Gillamoor road . |
| 19 | Bertie led us down a sloping alleyway to a heavy door where we left our shoes . |