Example sentences of "lead the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when he had left off playing I would go and sit by him , and a little later we would all lead the good old man to his cottage . |
| 2 | Sandy can lead the singing . |
| 3 | And Donald can lead the cart . |
| 4 | And James can lead the toasts . |
| 5 | ‘ It appears that Big Blue does not lead the market . |
| 6 | It follows an editorial policy that believes foreign news should lead the first three pages , that matters of national interest should be philosophically debated in the newspaper 's columns , and that half a page of sport either side of the weekend is enough . |
| 7 | Chris Patten , Secretary of State for the Environment , will lead the Government 's fight-back , by announcing a compromise over the poll tax to allay Conservative grassroots concern about the effects of the ‘ safety net ’ under which Tory areas subsidise Labour-dominated inner cities . |
| 8 | In my view , Mrs Thatcher will lead the Conservatives into the next election and win it . |
| 9 | He confirmed that Derby 's Dean Saunders will lead the attack . |
| 10 | That it was signed by a partner called Hugh Jarse would lead the wary to conclude that the CV Society was as adept at pinching stationery as at extracting money out of fun-loving freshers : after only an hour it had sold four presidencies , six other posts and had about 40 names on a list headed ‘ I 'm interested in your society but do n't want to cough up any money at the moment ’ . |
| 11 | You will lead the march , I shall be taking the salute . |
| 12 | One can picture Hoskyns looking down from the skies and being grateful for his pupil ; and Bethune-Baker looking down and thinking that he always knew where Hoskyns might lead the Churches . |
| 13 | It called for a revision of the Prayer Book — and the bishops of that day had no idea how far this call would lead the Churches . |
| 14 | This could lead the promoter into spending more money on advertising than may be necessary because only 10 per cent of these expenses are his or her costs . |
| 15 | Ironically , though Sweeney appears to promise a way out , he may only lead the sensitive reader back into the circle of sexual-religious speculations . |
| 16 | • BMW Chairman Eberhard von Kuenheim squashed reports that the BMW-McLaren link might lead the company back to F1 racing when McLaren 's contract with Honda runs out . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't really say about that , ’ she said , ‘ but — ’ launching into a text learned by heart — ‘ although guilty of many deviations from Marxism-Leninism and Socialist legality , Stalin did lead the heroic resistance of the Soviet peoples in the anti-Fascist war . ’ |
| 18 | The resulting delay allowed Sir Peter to develop and lead the employee buy-out of the Pickfords and BRS group . |
| 19 | ‘ I promise , ’ he told them , ‘ that I shall not fail your trust and that I shall lead the country to free elections . |
| 20 | Mr Kaifu might accumulate enough successes to impress his party when it decides who should lead the country for the next couple of years . |
| 21 | When the WICBC met to discuss the captaincy for the visit to Australia in 1960–1 , it was Alexander himself who pressed Worrell 's claims , and in due course the announcement was made that Worrell would lead the team . |
| 22 | The practical problems are that there may be no evidence of violence on the woman 's body , which usually means that the case will be a question of the victim 's word against the defendant 's ; this may lead the police to be sceptical of the woman 's complaint , or may incline the prosecutor to accept a plea of guilty to the lesser charge of indecent assault . |
| 23 | It was a form of patriotism — could we still lead the world in moral , instead of military and economic power ? |
| 24 | There was nothing for it , Mungo thought , but to follow Vic as often as possible , in the hope that he would lead the way to a solution . |
| 25 | Orchestral players themselves do n't necessarily lead the healthiest lives ! |
| 26 | ‘ He is wealthy and he does n't eat better than us and his father works in his garden ’ was a comment tinged with admiration , but dominated nonetheless by the thought that a man so obsessed did not lead the full life . |
| 27 | It probably has also escaped his notice that some of the BBC 's most cowardly-looking decisions — to drop the controversial film , The Last Temptation of Christ , to withdraw the Panorama programme on the economy and to decree that during the election campaign opinion polls should not lead the news bulletins — constitute genuflections to the Tories . |
| 28 | HOPES that the United States will lead the world out of the economic doldrums were dealt a blow yesterday when the country 's central bank admitted that the incipient recovery is in danger of petering out . |
| 29 | Sussex captain Alan Wells will lead the Duchess of Norfolk 's XI against Pakistan in the traditional tour opener at Arundel on May 3 . |
| 30 | The idea had been that Mr Major would finish with a rousing personal plea just before 9pm so his speech would lead the Nine O'Clock News with live scenes of Tory euphoria . |