Example sentences of "lead [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 2 | Captaining Jamaica for the second successive season , he not only led them to Red Stripe Cup triumph ( their third in five years ) , but , with the ball , he broke the tournament record with 36 wickets at 11.30 . |
| 3 | Simon the Trapper led them by devious paths to the lakeside hut . |
| 4 | My new project led me into unexplored realms of psychology which I might otherwise have ignored . |
| 5 | A thin disdainful blonde girl led me up narrow stairs to a room filled completely by a single bed . |
| 6 | But Peyton 's heroics are unlikely to lead him to European glory . |
| 7 | Both were standing , foaming tankards of ale in their hands , in the middle of the group of mourners around the makeshift coffin , leading them in raucous song about the fate of an innkeeper 's young daughter . |
| 8 | All that leads me to British Rail Bills , and the fact that only now are we talking about ditching the procedures of 150 years ago . |
| 9 | Finally , this leads me into green disciplining . |
| 10 | It shares ear markings with the tiger , very probably for the same reason , to provide a signal for the cubs to follow , especially at night , when their mother leads them through dense jungle . |
| 11 | ‘ This way , ’ he was instructing , leading her on brisk strides up the double stone staircase that led to the front door . |
| 12 | As he spoke , he had already turned abruptly on his heel and was leading her in swift strides across the wide hallway . |
| 13 | ‘ Gould has just issued a prospectus and as soon as I have one I will send it to you , announcing a work on English birds … his conceit leads him beyond common sense. , |
| 14 | John-Paul Ziller is variously a drugs dealer , magician and con man , personifying — like Rinehart in Ralph Ellison 's Invisible Man — the flux of narrative stances ; Plucky Purcell , as his name suggests , represents the narrator of adventures and Marx Marvellous ( ‘ your host and narrator ’ ) embodies Robbins 's role as narrative compère , constantly leading us into new episodes with an appropriate verbal flourish . |
| 15 | It leads us towards inner peace . |
| 16 | Therefore the poem leads us towards transcendental moments of revelation , scattered throughout , but climaxing at the Simplon Pass ( end of Book vi ) and the vision on Mount Snowdon in the last book of the poem ; in the same way Aeneas was granted a vision of the destiny of Rome in Book VI of the Aeneid , and Adam in Paradise Lost receives revelations on top of a high mountain . |
| 17 | A track led her through haphazard planting into a clearing where three shacks listed companionably on limestone supports . |
| 18 | His wrathful imagination led him to grotesque ideas … |
| 19 | This sense of perspective led him to lucid conclusions about the inescapable reality of decolonization and the long-term interests of France , which were better served by accepting decolonization than by resisting it . |
| 20 | This led him to numerous adventures in penetrating to Kabul and beyond , which have been described by Smith , Barber-Lomax , and especially Alder , who studied much of the terrain , in enthusiastic detail . |
| 21 | Failure led him to mass manipulation and an attempt to revolutionize British politics from outside the system . |
| 22 | This initially led him to ceremonial magick and London 's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ( 1898 ) , members of which included W. B. Yeats , Arthur Machen [ qq.v. ] , and its leader , S. L. Mathers ; and to yoga with the former Golden Dawn member Allan Bennett , later Bhikku Anada Metteya , who brought Theravada ( Hinayana ) Buddhism to Great Britain . |
| 23 | While at Howard University he had taken up a position as a consultant on Caribbean affairs , this led him into full-time work for the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission , where in 1948 , he became its Deputy Chairman based in Port of Spain . |
| 24 | His easy success often led him into precarious adventures ; in 1917 the French intercepted a cable from the German Ambassador in Madrid reporting to Berlin that he had found a mistress for the new Commander-in-Chief , for the modest fee of 12,000 pesetas a month . |
| 25 | The heart of the problem has been governments ' concern with social justice and an egalitarian distribution of income which has led them into passing legislation which has increased the costs of doing business . |
| 26 | Their diligent enforcement of the Government 's industrial laws has helped to transform the role of the trade unions ; their role as guarantors of public order has led them into bitter conflict with pickets and demonstrators . |
| 27 | But it is also because their own specialist interests have led them in other directions . |
| 28 | He would lead me through small flocks of goats , or to where the traffic was worst , and then briefly hide from me in the narrow alley-ways or the open shops . |
| 29 | I have a severe visual problem and this has led me into wonderful ventures around the galleries , ‘ seeing ’ art in my own way . |
| 30 | You will have a real country walk and a fine view of Moray Firth and Loch Beauly by the way , and mayhap a little seven-year-old will lead you through curious windings among a forest of the future . |