Example sentences of "led [pers pn] to the " in BNC.
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1 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
2 | It was precisely their erudition , their cultivation , their financial security , their disdain for the mediocre that led them to the gas chambers . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | The choice of Natal is strange as captain Craig Jamieson , the man who led them to the Cup in 1990 , is still very much involved in rugby . |
5 | One of the crooks was picked up half-a-mile away and he led them to the tot who was sitting unhurt on a pedestrian walkway . |
6 | Talbot led them to the wardroom and gestured them to their seats . |
7 | Myeloski led them to the room where the girl had been found . |
8 | He gestured towards the table with an amiable smile and led them to the gate . |
9 | Working the 2 Step programme becomes progressively more relevant on a daily basis in the recognition that it provides such a superb philosophy of life than many recovering people come to consider that they were fortunate to have addictive disease because it led them to the 12 Step Programme . |
10 | Cross and Bevan 's interest in the chemistry of cellulose led them to the study of the viscose solutions produced by treating cellulose with a strong solution of caustic soda and then carbon disulphide vapour . |
11 | Skirting the marshy end , they slowly climbed the gentle slope on the other side to join the carriage drive which led them to the stable . |
12 | The count simply abandoned the small , expensive aircraft and led them to the car . |
13 | He led them to the er , first British title for a European trophy , and erm , eventually er , he also was a member of the Northern Ireland team that actually reached the quarter-finals in the nineteen fifty eight World Cup . |
14 | 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 ) . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | In the 17 hours they were missing after losing their way , they trudged the forest to keep up their body heat until they eventually reached a path with white arrows which led them to the edge of the forest . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Mrs Aboud led me to the balcony from where it was evident that many of the surrounding buildings — like those elsewhere in the Arab quarter — had been devastated , their roofs smashed in and their windows punched out of their frames . |
19 | My searches even led me to the absurdity of being directed to the deep freeze in one newsagent when I asked for Spare Rib . |
20 | I checked my hexagram against the index , which led me to the pages headed Ta Kuo : Preponderance of the Great . |
21 | And her white Reeboks screeched at the marble as she turned and led me to the waiting forms . |
22 | 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 ’ . |
23 | She frowned for a moment , then picked up my hand and led me to the window . |
24 | Although this is an isolated example it is typical of the problems I encountered and which led me to the conclusion that the product simply is n't ready for release into the market in its current form . |
25 | But he raised his left hand again , this time to silence me ; took my arm and led me to the edge of the colonnade . |
26 | The sad consequence on the children 's lives of the circumstances of their birth led me to the conclusion that pregnancy in elderly women might not be appropriate and the whole programme was stopped . |
27 | ‘ Supposing that 's the case , what led you to the Skein of Geese in the first place ? ’ |
28 | She confessed that the bitter jibes and over-exposure led her to the precipice . |
29 | Allen took her by the arm and led her to the nearest stone shelter . |
30 | This led her to the alarming conclusion that it was not they who were bigger , but she who was smaller — and a lot smaller . |