Example sentences of "lead [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He extracted Catherine a short while later and turned the car back on the darkened road which would lead them towards the A1 . |
| 2 | When Soviet citizens began to question the merits of nuclear energy , they were questioning one of the most basic assumptions of their system : that communism would lead them into the high-tech future , and that the high-tech future would be greatly better than the present . |
| 3 | He would lead them into the yard and behind the sheds , and then he 'd point at nothing and say there it was . |
| 4 | And who was , who was the officer who would lead them into the flat ? |
| 5 | An assessment of their monopoly power may also lead them to the conclusion that a substantial rise in their profit margin and consequent restriction of demand may increase their profit . |
| 6 | AN anonymous phone call to police could lead them to the mother of the newborn baby boy abandoned on a golf course . |
| 7 | Their toisech would greet them , in his cone helmet with its metal nose-guard and his tunic of ring-mail over leather , and would lead them to the wing of the army commanded by my lord Ferteth , their Mormaer , and my lord Gillecrist , the Mormaer for Lennox and Strathclyde . |
| 8 | This is a matter of personal conscience and what every member in the council chamber today must be aware of , is that there is a vociferous and committed group of people we know that because we 've all had a great deal of communication from them and interestingly enough I have and most of the communication I 've had has been in favour so victory , people who write must be extremely perceptive in , with er marketing the that 's not the point , we all know that there is a committed and vociferous group of people whose consciences do not lead them to the same conclusions as Mr 's conscience and the issue really is , do we in a liberal and democratic society have the right to impose our consciences on those of other people who live in the community and quite clearly and quite determinedly take a different view . |
| 9 | Police on the streets of Northampton today questioning shoppers in a effort to unearth any clue which will lead them to the killer of Arthur Brumhill . |
| 10 | Meanwhile the police have produced new evidence which they hope will lead them to the killer . |
| 11 | Looking for evidence that will lead them to the bombers . |
| 12 | The court heard that Jones scoured the Penrhys estate after the burglary and took his friends to Mr Penrose 's house because he believed he could lead them to the culprits . |
| 13 | The princes of the realms decided that they needed someone to rally round and lead them in the event that war should come again . |
| 14 | They are prone to the ‘ herd instinct ’ , and politicians can easily lead them by the nose . |
| 15 | Danger of doing something irrevocable and wrong because initial impetus lost and clue that will lead me to the centre not yet found . |
| 16 | You will ask yourself , ‘ If I listen to my best friend within and follow the precepts , will he lead me to the same holiness as those whose life was dedicated to the light ? ’ |
| 17 | I had the somewhat faint hope that he might lead me to the place and permit me to stand where Balboa had stood — on the very peak which John Keats , with the kind of monumental mistakenness permitted under the principle of poetic licence — declared was occupied by : |
| 18 | I had the radio on low , in case they interrupted the broadcast with any bulletins that might lead me to the new Night Mayor . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll trade you your ‘ binos ’ for information that might lead me to the whereabouts of Dr Charity Marlowe . ’ |
| 20 | What cruel irony it will be if my own uncompromising and innovatory integrity should lead me into the mantraps set by the sort of people who scarcely know one end of a pen from another . |
| 21 | One of these days you 'll lead me across the road . |
| 22 | One of the most respected of our club members , on our committee of management , Pavel Pavlovich Gaganov , an elderly man ad highly esteemed , had formed the innocent habit of following anything he had to say with the vehement addition , ‘ No , sir , you ca n't lead me by the nose ! ’ |
| 23 | But I loved the orchestra the moment I stood in front of it ; and I knew from that moment that wherever my musical life might lead me in the meantime , this was what I wanted . |
| 24 | Take A55 to St. Asapah , skirt bottom of Denbigh and go on through to Ruthin from which A525 will lead you through the delightful Nantygarth Pass . |
| 25 | These basic movements plus the complete 360-degree circle or loop will lead you into the lazy eight . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ These two officers will lead you to the guard-room . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This might lead you to the assumption that I 'm going to do nothing but heap praise on this one , the S80 Stereo Chorus combo . |
| 30 | The Trail Map will lead you to the nine mysterious clues which will help you solve the fascinating Dash Discovery Puzzle |