Example sentences of "led [pers pn] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ We are a scientific community , ’ he said as he led them into a dismal cavernous hall , ‘ and also a spiritual one . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | She returned a few minutes later and somewhat grudgingly led me into a little room at the back . |
| 7 | I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 10 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 11 | I stood up , took Flavia 's hand and led her into a little room . |
| 12 | Willi led her into a huge living-room with a window looking over the valley . |
| 13 | He untied Dobbs and led her into a large dark shed . |
| 14 | He led her into a large room where a floor-to-ceiling window gave out on a garden dominated by a fountain and a single curving oak , its tracery of branches lavish against the steel grey sky . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He saw her state at once and without another word took her arm and led her into the little sitting room . |
| 17 | The guide led her into the air-conditioned jewellery shop and held out the box to a sales assistant . |
| 18 | He said his hectic work schedule led him into a downward spiral where he needed a drink to relax and help him sleep . |
| 19 | Corbett stared at him and looked away , the tension between them broken by the Pictish leader who took Thomas by the hand , like a child with a parent , and led him into the largest house , beckoning Corbett to follow them . |
| 20 | She led him into the comfortable drawing-room at the front of the house , and disappeared . |
| 21 | Then gradually , imperceptibly , she led him into the trickier terrain of the past . |
| 22 | She led him into the semicircular hall with its high vaulted ceiling from which a chandelier threw its bright light over the pale lemon and white walls . |
| 23 | ( Remember Russell 's chicken ( Russell , 1959 , p. 35 ) , whose true beliefs about the regularity with which it had been fed so far led it into a false belief about the security of its future . ) |
| 24 | The cave itself was surprisingly warm and we realised we were walking through a gallery which led us into a lofty underground cavern . |
| 25 | Finally , still silent , she turned and led us into the main room . |