Example sentences of "lead the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so saying she led the way on to the terrace with its beautiful scents of honeysuckle , rose and jasmine . |
| 2 | ‘ Hi , ’ she said and led the way upstairs . |
| 3 | Wimbledon as usual , led the way , with the first substantial grant . |
| 4 | The British government led the way in Europe with its tough Drug Trafficking Offences Act in 1986 . |
| 5 | This scheme , which was the first which opened up the riverside in Leeds , an area which up to this time had been ignored and declining for 100 years , led the way for the mass of development which has since followed . |
| 6 | In each case , London led the way , but was the first into recession , which meant in the long run that the relationship between the value of property in different areas was maintained . |
| 7 | Suddenly Rachel leant over and kissed Phoebe quite gently on the cheek , and then she turned and led the way downstairs . |
| 8 | On the ground floor my interpreter from the Bengali Housing Association led the way into a small , bare flat inhabited by a Bengali widow with three children of six , eight and nine . |
| 9 | ‘ So , ’ the manager locked , and double locked the cupboard , led the way from the room , locked and double locked that door too , and took the Norderns into the restaurant bar . |
| 10 | Barclays , whose exposure to Third World debts are lower than most , led the way ahead with a 22p gain to 518p . |
| 11 | America led the way in setting up an international system for dealing with the Indochina refugees . |
| 12 | America led the way in setting up an international system for dealing with the Indochina refugees . |
| 13 | Insurances , both lifes and composites , led the way on renewed takeover talk . |
| 14 | Butthole Surfers led the way in erecting a new charter of values : overload , disproportion , over-emphasis , surfeit , gross out , turgidity … |
| 15 | Weller led the way , dropping The WHO as his model for political protest in favour of funk and early seventies disco . |
| 16 | In Bacon 's books , Sprat says , ‘ are every where scattered the best arguments , that can be produced for the defence of Experimental Philosophy ; and the best directions , that are needful to promote it ’ , while according to Glanvill ‘ all the main heads of natural history have received aids and increase from the famous Bacon , who led the way to substantial wisdom , and hath given most excellent directions for the method of such an history of nature ’ . |
| 17 | Boycott led the way with 86 and everyone made a contribution of sorts , but soon after lunch on the final day they were 290 for 6 and defeat was still possible . |
| 18 | She led the way downstairs and Tug followed her , feeling Doyle close behind him . |
| 19 | Charity led the way into a sitting-room full of antique furniture the effect of which was spoiled by Nazi posters and emblems of the Hitler cult covering the walls . |
| 20 | He led the way down the gangplank complaining vaguely to his friends that there had been some disgusting favouritism somewhere . |
| 21 | Again it was the auto industry that led the way in the early Fifties after suffering two costly setbacks . |
| 22 | In 1958 the Civil Service led the way towards equality by granting equal pay . |
| 23 | In the same year the Church of England led the way out of a moral impasse which trapped the Catholic Church by giving birth control its blessing under the name of Family Planning . |
| 24 | She paused briefly to tidy her hair and smooth the creases from her skirt , then led the way into the house . |
| 25 | She led the way up a flight of stairs , shouting a greeting as they passed the entrance to the ball-scryer 's receiving room on the ground floor . |
| 26 | Tammuz led the way up to the second floor , where he 'd spread himself out through two labs , an office and a washroom . |
| 27 | Roirbak led the way to the laboratory annexe of the complex , where he 'd already prepared a couple of rooms for their research . |
| 28 | The six women horse-riders led the way , single-file , and we muleteers followed , to meet some four hours later for lunch at our first watering-hole , the hilltop village of Torvizcon . |
| 29 | Endill led the way through the corridors , talking about some of the rooms he had visited nearby and in other parts of the school . |
| 30 | He led the way to a shaded part of the library . |