Example sentences of "led [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 And they have led them under the false belief that a negotiated solution was seriously pursued .
2 Having led them to the lagoon entrance , the caller would fly forward to rejoin his body and warn the people of the coming of ‘ our friends from the west ’ .
3 Johnson was the shining star in an excellent Whitecaps side which included former English internationalists Alan Ball and Jon Sammels. his performances put an estimated 6,000 on the team 's home gate ; within a season Johnson had led them to the Soccer Bowl final against Tampa Bay Rowdies .
4 ‘ It was a brilliant performance , ’ enthused Toby Mullins , the ladies ' coach who has led them to the championship in his first season in charge .
5 Now all of this may well have made no difference to the final result ; the courts reading of the facts may have led them to the same conclusion whatever the meanings given to reasonable and unreasonable .
6 And Satan had led them to the attack .
7 My experience at the Fiesta Club had led me to the conclusion that , on average , a ‘ star ’ lasts about three years before fading to a nonentity and I intended to earn as much as possible in that time and retire — unhurt — with enough capital for a business .
8 My experience in England has led me to the conclusion that most people are unable to see me whole .
9 My own experience has led me to the conclusion that at the present stage of development of comprehensive education , a purely individual-based approach to support teaching is likely to prove counterproductive for a combination of three reasons :
10 ‘ But was n't it ironic that he wuz the one who eventually blew everythin' wide open , an ’ led you to the chink 's drugs operation ? ’
11 Your brother himself seems to have led you into the wood .
12 Before Melissa realised what was happening , he had led her off the path and in among the trees .
13 ‘ Who are you ? ’ the teenager asked after he had led her into the main concourse .
14 It was he after all who had led her to arrest Taczek , he who had indirectly led her into the chief superintendent 's office that morning to have her face sprayed with warm saliva .
15 This has led her beyond the sciences , but the philosophical and literary implications of her involvement with the theories of Heisenberg and others have left a lasting mark on her work .
16 She then returned to full-time medical work , and now her religious , political and medical commitments have led her to the position of Consultant in Public Health Medicine for Central Birmingham Health Authority .
17 Irish 25-mile ladies champion Claire Moore gave Trainor Solicitors a home win in the ladies championship after Aishling Baird ( Phoenix CC ) had led her to the turn but lost over a minute on the run back .
18 Irish 25-mile ladies champion Claire Moore gave Trainor Solicitors a home win in the ladies championship after Aishling Baird ( Phoenix CC ) had led her to the turn , but lost over a minute on the run back .
19 Irish 25-mile ladies champion Claire Moore gave Trainor Solicitors a home win in the ladies championship after Aishling Baird ( Phoenix CC ) had led her to the turn , but lost over a minute on the run back .
20 She felt a nervous spasm in her stomach as she passed the point where Fernand had led her from the path to show her his secret refuge .
21 Bewildering doubts and dissatisfied creativity had led him to the hills in search of a poetic subject ‘ that should give equal room and freedom for description , incident , and impassioned reflections on men , nature , and society ’ .
22 The crucial importance of the stabilising influence of Rirette in Nizan 's personal development can not be overstated , and there are certainly grounds for drawing a parallel between , on the one hand , the blossoming at a distance of Nizan 's love and affection for Rirette , with the consequent calming of personal anxieties , and on the other , the burgeoning at a distance of his hatred and hostility for those political , social and cultural forces in French society which he considered to have led him to the brink of suicide and despair .
23 The path had led him to the edge of a cliff !
24 After an initial hesitation in December that lasted no more than forty-eight hours , the King 's sense of fair play had led him to the same conclusion .
25 Quick wit and cleverness at school had shifted him quickly from his roots in the Belfast underclass , and his natural proclivities had led him to the theatre set , a wee bit of acting and extra-work from time to time , usually as a gunman or a thug and once , memorably , as a rather well-fed hungerstriker .
26 When de Man subjects the metaphor of the fountain to " Proust 's own injunction " to submit the image to the " test of truth " , he apparently loses sight of the way that his own conception of metaphor as " intratextual complementarity " of inside and outside has led him towards the aporia .
27 It has led him from the brooding atmosphere of his early novels to the limpid clarity of his last .
28 This discussion has led us into the third and perhaps most important question : since the assumptions will generally be untrue , how robust are the results to minor modifications of the assumptions of the model ?
29 That ability has led us into the more specialized areas and it has demonstrated that success was not just getting through the traumas of the 70s and taking costs out of the business , but in finding different directions in which to take the business . ’
30 ‘ Besides , we ca n't kill her until she 's led us to the book or at least told us where we can find it . ’
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