Example sentences of "lead [pron] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Just what routes will logic produce to lead me to the complete knowledge of the nature of a flea ? … |
| 7 | as if in a dream , I allowed Mrs Knelle to lead me to the front door . |
| 8 | Monie , who guided the Cherry and Whites to four successive league and Wembley doubles , narrowly failed to lead them to the Grand Slam last term after they were beaten by St Helens in the premiership final . |
| 9 | And that , logically , leads me to the obvious conclusion — that I love you , and that we must be married as soon as possible . |
| 10 | He sobered instantly , taking her arm and leading her to the wrought-iron balcony . |
| 11 | Another Greek has cut down a Trojan who falls under the handle , leading us to the other side . |
| 12 | This leads us to the disturbing conclusion that there is a degree of subjectivity in identifying a stretch of language as discourse — it may be meaningful and thus communicate to one person in a way which another person does not have the necessary knowledge to make sense of — yet in practice we find that discourse is usually perceived as such by groups , rather than individuals . |
| 13 | He led her to the far room where she had found Leo . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This led her to the alarming conclusion that it was not they who were bigger , but she who was smaller — and a lot smaller . |
| 16 | His family situation led him to the inescapable conclusion that the world was a hostile , alien environment in which was concealed the terrible presence of death , and in which the hopes , convictions and aspirations of men could be dashed by the unforeseeable and irreversible consequences of a malevolent destiny . |
| 17 | She led him to the dismal apartment rented to her by Louis . |
| 18 | Eventually , his wanderings led him to the ornate frontage of a steam-house . |
| 19 | I had the radio on low , in case they interrupted the broadcast with any bulletins that might lead me to the new Night Mayor . |
| 20 | Follow it — it is an Orange Brick Road , which proves how close you can come to a real advertising coup without quite getting it right : I wonder if the café serves 6-Up — and it will lead you to the Great Geysir . |
| 21 | She 'll lead you to the real killer ! ’ |
| 22 | Furthermore , there are literally only a handful of really big-time string manufacturers in the world , and a short burst of brain-power will lead you to the correct conclusion that there are a lot of companies buying strings in bulk from the big makers and putting their names on them . |
| 23 | In that case , I argued that Darwin 's idea of natural selection would lead us to the correct answer . |
| 24 | Our discussion of the evolution of the logogen model has led us to the following view of the organisation of the mental lexicon . |
| 25 | Networks operating on this principle perform an operation that is likely to be extremely important for the neocortex , and it was actually the search for a mechanism that would do this that led us to the suggested modification rule : the modifiable interconnections tend to make the representative elements become uncorrelated , and thus to signal independently of each other . |
| 26 | ‘ Lead them to the Great Tower , Women , ’ she commanded , ‘ where the chains hang . ’ |