Example sentences of "led [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then a lot of them fancied their chances that year — Peter Oosterhuis , Nick Faldo , and so on , and Bobby Clampett led for a while and it looked as though they might not be able to catch him . |
| 2 | In 1989 he led for a circuit on his only previous ride in the race , on one Kersil with Little Polveir , the eventual winner , and West Tip in close attendance . |
| 3 | Leeds led through a try by Ellery Hanley . |
| 4 | He was on a road that led through a swamp , and then coming towards him was the rough figure of a shepherd , the jostling oval shapes of the animals . |
| 5 | But still it 's an important paper that sort of broke away from a lot of the traditional thinking and led towards a lot more feminist stuff . |
| 6 | It led into a corridor , lined with doors . |
| 7 | This led into a couple of summers acting as a professional lifesaver during summer vacations from Sheffield University . |
| 8 | I was n't quite sure whether the little girl who volunteered the world ‘ slim ’ was being personal or not , but at least that led into a discussion on diet . |
| 9 | A stile over a stone wall led into a field whose furthest wall consisted of the grey squat towers of the castle . |
| 10 | On the opposite side to the door and window was the staircase , and two doors ; one of which ( the nearest to the fire ) led into a sort of little back kitchen , where dirty work , such as washing up dishes , might be done , and whose shelves served as larder , and pantry , and store-room , and all . |
| 11 | Then to the important part — Exercise — and this led into a Movement session . |
| 12 | His chief early interest , inherited from his grandfather , Philip Henry Gosse FRS [ q.v. ] , was natural history ; this led to a trip to Newfoundland in 1895 . |
| 13 | There was an argument which led to a scuffle and Youngs joined in to calm things down . |
| 14 | In 1927–28 , Miss Green revived the ailing WEA branch there with a Terminal course , followed by a One-Year course in the following year which led to a Tutorial Class from 1929–32 . |
| 15 | The attraction of the London market , and the adoption of West Midlands skills by the motor and engineering industries , led to a consolidation of the economy on these core regions . |
| 16 | As well as causing a breakdown in the economic system , the inflation led to a spread of corruption ; it meant humiliation for many thousands of families , whilst a few successful speculators found themselves with untold wealth . |
| 17 | At one end of the ward a door led to a bathroom in which the ‘ bath ’ was a large caulked wooden tub — the sort one saw in the back-to-backs of the mining villages . |
| 18 | The way that the assessors in Scotland attacked the valuation of domestic property led to a revolt among Scottish Conservative voters living in the big houses of Scotland . |
| 19 | The cost of inter-imperialist rivalry and wars , as well as the cost of administering the colonies , eventually came to be seen as wasteful and this , with the economic crisis of the 1930s , led to a problem of low profitability and under-consumption ; in other words , a decline in effective demand . |
| 20 | This led to a problem in at least one case described below , where there was a contextual clue to the speaker 's ethnicity . |
| 21 | The discussion groups ( Appendix II , section 5 ) show how easily a change for the worse in someone 's circumstances can lead to debt troubles : the man in hospital after an accident at work , who then had a breakdown , while overdue credit instalments mounted up to over £100 and led to a court summons ; the family who owed £30 a week on furniture and carpet instalments for their new flat — eventually taken to court after a series of lost jobs ; or ( Appendix III ) the previously secure young widow whose money troubles started when her husband died — although an understanding bank wrote off the outstanding balance on a car loan , a furniture firm refused to accept the reduced instalments which were all that she could afford . |
| 22 | Rogers was well known to the police and she believes it was this fact which led to a court appearance for a minor offence . |
| 23 | This disagreement led to a reconciliation on the tenth morning culminating in a bout of furious unaccustomed holiday sex ( the kind you do n't get anywhere else ) , which in turn led them to wander onto the beach much later in the day , feeling sheepish and rather pleased with themselves . |
| 24 | A steep flight of steps off the street led to a first-floor courtyard dotted with pots of bougainvillaea . |
| 25 | This somehow led to a discussion on local football and I discovered that there were eleven fit men and true down at the Kingdom Hall . |
| 26 | This led to a discussion of favourite books and authors , then on to music and art . |
| 27 | This led to a discussion of timetabling and the constraints imposed by group sizes , and how these constraints might be eased . |
| 28 | This led to a discussion on the EC wishing to abolish quarantine altogether , and Robert grew heated as he spoke of the risks . |
| 29 | Attempts to mitigate what were recognized as disastrous divisions often took the form of a refusal to acknowledge the wide difference of ability that existed between pupils , which led to a style and content of teaching roughly directed to the middle band of children , the least and the most able being left to shift for themselves . |
| 30 | Hetherington ( 1979 ) found that if marital separation led to a cessation of hostilities and conflict , this seemed somewhat less damaging for children than remaining in a discordant , unhappy , but intact home . |