Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] led him " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roughness and sheer wild irrationality of Lewis 's domestic persona were matched by the genuinely warm-hearted impulse which had led him to befriend Havard in the first place . |
| 2 | However he welcomed the manner in which the new law had resolved the " most serious " objections which had led him to veto the 1990 version , and had made it clear that US government " requests " to third countries or private citizens for help in covert actions did not need to be reported to Congress . |
| 3 | Philip offered the pope peace negotiations and , in an important communication of June 1206 , he surveyed the imperial dispute from its beginnings , stressing the anarchy in the empire and the motives which had led him to accept the kingship . |
| 4 | He has changed his mind , belittling the flimsy premise which had led him to stay in the city . |
| 5 | Was he furious because she 'd led him on only to change her mind at the last minute ? |
| 6 | He recalled other ways in which she had led him on ; the snowy mittened fingers laid on his arm during their walks , the occasional side-glance as if to show that he did not displease her , her endurance , to say the least , of his company . |
| 7 | She had led him there neatly . |
| 8 | If politicians were normally able to manipulate freeholders and councillors by judicious use of their patronage powers , it is equally clear that they were on occasion themselves manipulated , and for all David Scott 's obvious embarrassment over the Robinson affair , it is evident that he felt unable to show much resentment towards the man who had led him into that predicament . |
| 9 | She had always resented Luke , and feared the way he made her feel — because she must have sensed from the beginning the power he could and did have over her ; because he had deprived her of himself when he had had her dismissed from that very first job back in South Africa ; because something had led him to misjudge and despise her , and he was unable to see the truth ; because she had always known that he could break her heart … |
| 10 | Unfortunately for the farmers , their lord and master thought they must be more prosperous than they 'd led him to believe , and he promptly put the rents back up . ’ |
| 11 | Engels , on the other hand , states in the preface to the first edition of The Origin that ‘ Morgan in his own way had discovered afresh in America the materialistic conception of history , discovered by Marx forty years ago , and in his comparison of barbarism and civilization it had led him , in the main points , to the same conclusions as Marx' [ p. 71 ] . |