Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] lead him " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that the main annalist 's fondness for tales of woe in this case led him to distort the facts , or that he was misled by sources which did so . |
| 2 | He — far less usually she — is an inadequate individual whose lack of sexual capability leads him to rely on an activity which affords sexual pleasure with minimal active participation . |
| 3 | This motive led him after university away from the |
| 4 | The old man led him through a gate on the opposite side of the yard from the stable-block . |
| 5 | It may at times become chaotic and disordered , but that , that 's not the normal state of affairs , and Hobbes ' analysis of social order leads him to conclude that social order only becomes possible , when individuals give up some of their freedom , to centralize authority . |
| 6 | The breaking of this promise led him to close the doors of the museum two years ago during the height of the van Gogh fever when a large outdoor festival was held right outside his doorstep . |
| 7 | The fact that she spoke halting Danish and fluent German and held a British passport led him to conclude that she probably knew the island before World War II . |
| 8 | His belief in spontaneous generation led him to publish The Modes of Origin of Lowest Organisms ( 1871 ) , The Beginnings of Life ( 1872 ) , and Evolution and the Origin of Life ( 1874 ) . |
| 9 | This observation led him to his third important realization , namely , that the tension that he had seen in his neck was causing other tensions throughout his whole structure . |
| 10 | Official indifference led him to publish his findings in this and scores of other cases . |
| 11 | His wrathful imagination led him to grotesque ideas … |
| 12 | His puritanical streak led him as lord mayor to attempt to ban the ‘ demoralizing pleasure fair ’ in Ashbourne and to outlaw Shrovetide football . |
| 13 | His original mind and interests in music , linguistics and the human voice led him to study the problems of deaf education and to invent " The New Sign Language , " in which every sign was a pantomimic version of the spoken word and in which signs were made in the same order and in the same sequel as the words of normal speech . |
| 14 | His remarkable doggedness led him to carry on regardless when two stink bombs broke everyone else 's concentration . |
| 15 | Sampson II was apprenticed in 1717 to Thomas Sharp at a brass-wire firm in Bristol , but ill health led him to go home in 1720 . |
| 16 | But filthy lucre led him to Uncle Kenny 's . |
| 17 | But Byrnes failed to appreciate the importance of Roosevelt 's personal standing in the Kremlin ( even Stalin professed to be moved by his death ) , while his own successful experience as a horse-trading domestic politician led him to underestimate the difficulty of dealing with foreigners — and especially the Russians who shared few if any of his values and assumptions . |
| 18 | Akehurst 's passion for the subject of international law led him to embark on the writing of what became a standard student textbook , A Modern Introduction to International Law . |
| 19 | Whether the view of science led Peirce to look for a prior epistemology , or whether the desire for , or availability of , a prior epistemology led him to think of inquiry as he did , are questions I shall not pursue here . |
| 20 | From this it was only a short step to total involvement in folk culture , and his ability to play the gipsy violin led him to join the Gyorgyos Bokreta group , which at that time offered a programme of traditional songs and dances from the Bata region . |
| 21 | His fundamentalist outlook led him to destroy Hindu temples across the empire . |
| 22 | His keen instinct gave him a deep understanding of his environment and his innate intelligence led him to devise ways of altering it to his advantage . |
| 23 | Genette 's relational strategy leads him to construct purely abstract combinations without any real existence in literature . |
| 24 | Irony was to the fore when in 1925 he wrote of the Russian Revolution , but behind it was a more important urge leading him to the poem ‘ Le Voyage ’ of his favourite Baudelaire . |
| 25 | Disenchantement with the policy of that union led him to resign from it and to join another union , Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff ( ‘ A.P.E.X . ’ ) |
| 26 | Between 1916 and 1927 his quest for intellectual and emotional stability led him to examine another solution : bourgeois culture and bourgeois education . |
| 27 | His ascetic determination led him to sell his non-Christian books . |
| 28 | This same impulse leads him to recall the life of Harry Fonstein , a distant friend who miraculously escaped the Nazi holocaust , thanks to an underground operation masterminded by the Broadway impresario Billy Rose , or ‘ Bella Rosa ’ as his name sounds when whispered in excitable Italian . |
| 29 | The development of this part of the plot is swift , Lear 's impatient anger leading him from one self-imposed crisis to another . |
| 30 | His smiling golden retriever leads him on |