Example sentences of "lead [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The beadle led them through the gloomy rooms off the main hall where the Court of Common Pleas , Court of Chancery and Court of Requests sat , and down a warren of lime-washed corridors until he stopped in front of a door and rapped noisily with his wand .
2 The girl swung round as a silent invitation to follow , and led them past a tangled bunch of bicycles and a wall of political posters to hopeless causes .
3 He led them down a small corridor , paused by a door , took out a huge bunch of keys , slowly , and deliberately , unlocked the door , and then , with a dramatic , indeed melodramatic , flourish , flung it open .
4 She led them down a narrow corridor and into a comfortable lounge .
5 He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him .
6 A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques .
7 Flunkeys led them into a private part of La Noblesse where they were warmly greeted by an expansive Grunte , who presented the ladies with a flower and with grave courtesy showed each to her seat .
8 He led them into a small , more comfortable room behind the great hall where a fire burnt in the canopied hearth ; it was cosier and not so forbidding , with its wood-panelled walls and high-backed chairs arranged in a semi-circle around the hearth .
9 ‘ We are a scientific community , ’ he said as he led them into a dismal cavernous hall , ‘ and also a spiritual one . ’
10 Philpott led them to a pale-blue door at the end of the passage .
11 At noon , the exhausted Pack gathered together and Brown Owl led them to a shady area .
12 At the top of the staircase various Chamberlains , dressed in gold embroidered jackets , welcomed the guests and led them to the Grand Master of Ceremonies .
13 And members are still less than enamoured with their district council group leader , Coun John Richardson from Willington , who led them to the disastrous defeat .
14 Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) .
15 Anderson captained Ireland on their short tour of France , led them to an unexpected victory over a French XV and keeps the job now but age and waning powers put a question-mark over his selection for the team at all .
16 Grooms took their horses whilst a pompous steward of the Prince 's household led them up the main steps into the spacious hall .
17 Christina led them under an arched stone portico and through a labyrinth of white-stucco passageways opening onto vine-covered courtyards where tiny humming-birds fluttered through tall bamboo , and antique urns overflowed with red and pink angelica .
18 She led them onto a small covered terrace running the full width of the house .
19 Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes .
20 And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim .
21 It seems at first quite astonishing to learn that neither the inventory in Jacques 's marriage contract nor that made after death provides any evidence that he was a flute-player or maker ; they seem to contradict the generally held view that he was a maker - a view which is supported by an entry in von Uffenbach 's diary which records a visit he paid Jacques in 1715 : ‘ He [ Jacques ] led me into a tidy room and showed me there many beautiful transverse flutes that he himself makes and from which he wishes to gain special profit . ’
22 She returned a few minutes later and somewhat grudgingly led me into a little room at the back .
23 I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward .
24 She led me into the pink-and-green chintzy sitting-room where Harry , pale with blue shadows below the eyes , sat in an armchair with his bandaged leg elevated on a large upholstered footstool .
25 The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom .
26 She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby .
27 I skulked down one side of the garden and went through the arch which led me to a walled garden in the middle of which there was a fountain playing .
28 He led me to a long , low building .
29 I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen .
30 Where was Um Al-Farajh , I asked him , and he led me to a large square of fir trees and pointed to the earth .
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