Example sentences of "led us " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data could pop up in boxes around the screen , and in due course graphics , mice and icons led us into the wimps era ( window , icon , menu , pointer ) . |
| 2 | ‘ It led us to speed it up , ’ he said , while denying that the alleged single market would of itself promote business . |
| 3 | Its vast walls of flint and glass and Gothic tracery were brilliantly floodlit and the churchyard cat , sleek and black as tar , greeted us querulously and led us right round the church and through the gravestones at the back , glimmering and pale in the moonlight . |
| 4 | It was easy to anticipate that respondents would be sensitive about such matters , and it was our general tolerance of such fears that continually led us to try to pacify and reassure respondents . |
| 5 | ‘ We tried it then and look where it led us ’ , is her view of previous bouts of big spending , reflation , and subsidies to troubled industries . |
| 6 | Instead of letting our success lead us into a fat-cat mentality , it led us much more strongly and much faster into a mentality of asking what are we going to do with it . |
| 7 | Our search for something to eat led us up these darkly menacing alleys . |
| 8 | Finally , still silent , she turned and led us into the main room . |
| 9 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 10 | ( There ) ‘ we were met by the Viscount Walsh ( Chamberlain of the Emperor ) who led us to the apartment of the Baroness de Pierres ( ex Miss Thorne of New York ) who is now a lady-in-waiting to the Empress ’ . |
| 11 | A Fatah officer with long , dirty hair led us down a slit trench cut into the soft , red earth . |
| 12 | Our campaign soon led us to investigate the finances of the National Land Fund , which over the previous twenty years had been used to acquire a whole series of country houses for the nation . |
| 13 | As Hitchings himself has pointed out , ‘ we were uncommitted with respect to specific disease targets , but we were bound to follow wherever our thoughts and antimetabolites led us ’ . |
| 14 | This question led us off into the usual calculations that take place on these occasions , sprinkled with the odd exclamation of ‘ No ! ’ , |
| 15 | A man with a great bunch of keys joined us and led us down some steps to a doorway marked ‘ Luftschutzraum ’ . |
| 16 | This led us to undertake a principal components transformation of the seven bands of image data , which gave encouraging results similar to those obtained by Forster ( 1985a ) . |
| 17 | Our way led us out of sight of the bay , [ Portree ; JTR has picked up a ‘ preacher of the Gospel ’ ] and we were within hearing , and also could trace , the rocky stream that coursed seaward from the mighty mountains that form the Coolin range . |
| 18 | My grandfather , leading skipper James Veness , led us out of the then quite good harbour at Hastings , East Sussex in his fine lugger Jim and Eliza . |
| 19 | Jim became team captain in succession to Ian in October 1977 and led us up to Division One in 1978–79 as 2nd Division champions , then to the top of the Football League on 29 September 1979 , scoring as spectacular a goal in our 4–1 trouncing of Ipswich Town as any football follower could ever hope to witness . |
| 20 | Innerd took over as Palace 's captain in 1906 after Ted Birnie had left us and he led us to several marvellous FA Cup triumphs , including the fabulous 1–0 Will at the home of his former club , and League champions , Newcastle United in January 1907 . |
| 21 | This led us to develop an approach known as hypergame analysis . |
| 22 | These broad themes taken together led us to put forward a proposal for a anew divorce law in our book Grounds for Divorce . |
| 23 | Back in the main town , we explored twisting alleys which eventually led us to the old Frankish quarter . |
| 24 | One of the young people from our party carried the banner that led us . |
| 25 | Misinformation from respected sources led us to state in the Feedback section of our November issue that the neck on the recently reviewed Manson ‘ Classic S ’ guitar was Japanese in origin . |
| 26 | Back to the beginning , and the archery shafts which led us into carbon tubes and the generation of so many new designs for steerable aerobatic kites . |
| 27 | He led us out to sea after four 88s in a long stern chase — always deadly , particularly over Malta — when I saw we were actually overtaking the 88s , I realised they were acting as decoys . |
| 28 | A Champs Elysée corridor led us to an escalator and the plush basement waiting room of the cancer clinic . |
| 29 | Phil led us through it , only adding the occasional sentence … we were walking down a path , do we turn left or right … ? |
| 30 | Mark finally led us to the summit of Mont Blonc du Tacul just as darkness fell . |