Example sentences of "led [pers pn] [prep] the [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 flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Working the 2 Step programme becomes progressively more relevant on a daily basis in the recognition that it provides such a superb philosophy of life than many recovering people come to consider that they were fortunate to have addictive disease because it led them to the 12 Step Programme . |
| 7 | Grooms took their horses whilst a pompous steward of the Prince 's household led them up the main steps into the spacious hall . |
| 8 | Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 11 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 12 | The house we sat in was still in chaos , so she led me to the sunny kitchen , where we talked and drank coffee , surrounded by boxes and plants and the smell of paint . |
| 13 | And her white Reeboks screeched at the marble as she turned and led me to the waiting forms . |
| 14 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 15 | When I said that I did , he led me up the narrow street to the church and unlocked the ancient door . |
| 16 | He led me through the narrow alleys of the Old City until we came to a lane barely two feet wide . |
| 17 | As he led me through the back door and on to the waste ground he used as an unofficial parking lot , he said : ‘ Good runner , only thirty thousand on the clock . ’ |
| 18 | Then he took Victoria 's hand and led her towards the strange woman . |
| 19 | As he led her towards the wood-and-thatch building by the roadside , Isabel contemplated another night in fitzAlan 's company . |
| 20 | Slater led her past the other people , over towards the mantelpiece and him . |
| 21 | Sex education as a subject is important in any discussion of the work of Mrs Whitehouse , because her experiences of it as a teacher and parent , indirectly , if not directly , led her into the public domain of the politics of sexual morality . |
| 22 | He saw her state at once and without another word took her arm and led her into the little sitting room . |
| 23 | The guide led her into the air-conditioned jewellery shop and held out the box to a sales assistant . |
| 24 | He led her through the crowded flat to the kitchen and poured her a glass of wine . |
| 25 | ‘ Pringle 's used to have a Directors ' Dining Room , with their own cook , ’ Wilcox explained as he led her through the drab corridors of the administration block , and out across a yard where fresh snow was already covering the footpath that had been cleared . |
| 26 | I took Montaine by the hand and led her through the empty rooms … there were very many . |
| 27 | Allen took her by the arm and led her to the nearest stone shelter . |
| 28 | He led her to the far room where she had found Leo . |
| 29 | He took her hand and led her to the open-air dance-floor just as the band slipped into the first of their slow numbers . |
| 30 | This led her to the alarming conclusion that it was not they who were bigger , but she who was smaller — and a lot smaller . |