Example sentences of "led [pers pn] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He led them into a room overlooking an attractive courtyard , with a paved area surrounded by shrubs . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ We are a scientific community , ’ he said as he led them into a dismal cavernous hall , ‘ and also a spiritual one . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He led them into the mortuary , and pulled the sheet back from the body of the girl . |
| 7 | He then led them into the Catherine Palace , once more brandishing his authority whenever an official came forward to stop them . |
| 8 | A pack leader saw the police in hot pursuit , called six Sturmabteilungen to him and led them into the stadium . |
| 9 | He led them into the kitchen , chatting to Blanche and Dexter as if they were house guests rather than police officers who had come to interview him about a murder . |
| 10 | Lady Macleod received the travellers in ‘ a stately dining-room ’ , fed them and led them into the drawing-room for tea to meet the family . |
| 11 | As the Galks led them into the desert , the travellers could see the Cun arguing with the skull people , trying to reclaim their raw meat . |
| 12 | A gaoler led them into the porter 's lodge , the fellow bowing and scraping as he recognised Sir John . |
| 13 | He led me into a corridor . |
| 14 | I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward . |
| 15 | She led me into a bed-sitting-room . |
| 16 | She led me into a parlour . |
| 17 | Later in my life — ça sera pour un autre jour — birds led me into a very unusual experience . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | She returned a few minutes later and somewhat grudgingly led me into a little room at the back . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Then the old lady took me firmly by the arm and led me into the bathroom . |
| 22 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 23 | He led me into the hut he had just come out of |
| 24 | She led me into the kind of large room that Americans call studios . |
| 25 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 26 | He untied Dobbs and led her into a large dark shed . |
| 27 | But it took a trained observer to follow her through the quicksands of her disapprobation ; a false step on the part of one of the aunts , for instance , could have reversed her attitude , and led her into a eulogy of black , into a martyred position whence the garments of all the others were an insult to her lone and exclusive widowhood , into a position where she alone had the right to flout the weight of tradition . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Leo led her into a club . |
| 30 | I stood up , took Flavia 's hand and led her into a little room . |