Example sentences of "lead [pers pn] to [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Again , the would-be reformers ' interpretation of the 1980s led them to this conclusion . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I want to take you through the thinking that led me to that conclusion , and then to concentrate on one of the keys to securing that future — the whole question of advancing the cause of children 's books . |
| 5 | But Peyton 's heroics are unlikely to lead him to European glory . |
| 6 | Francis insisted that taking Wednesday into Europe this season , after leading them to third place behind Leeds and Manchester United in April , was his career high point — despite scoring the winner in a European Cup final . |
| 7 | And what leads me to that conclusion is the distortion that Mr brought in , in suggesting that the estate is worth forty million pounds . |
| 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 | Since DOL is hopefully making a comeback this evening for the reserves it leads me to this question . |
| 10 | Note also those facts vital for your purpose as well as anything which leads you to further research — names of other publications , for example . |
| 11 | For several days , maybe up to a week before that , whatever I was doing it was leading him to that decision . |
| 12 | ‘ And that — ’ Cranston almost shouted , glaring across at the landlord to bring his food for his stomach was growling with hunger' — leads us to another mystery . |
| 13 | The captain of the escort led him to one side , explaining . |
| 14 | I scrambled up to find a rather nervous photographer who had not enjoyed the path that led him to that spot . |
| 15 | When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting . |
| 16 | Beyond , the muttering of a TV set led him to another door . |
| 17 | Failure led him to mass manipulation and an attempt to revolutionize British politics from outside the system . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ My whole life has led me to this point . |
| 20 | Rather , learn from your actions and then choose the path which will lead you to inner peace and self-respect . |
| 21 | ‘ So ye 've reached the same conclusion as Ah have , that Mario Ángel Gómez is the navigator she referred to as the man who can lead her to that icebound ship . |
| 22 | His emphasis on the " common style " suggests that he is no longer interested in talking to himself but to others , and Four Quartets is at one level an oratorical performance : it would not be too much to say that all of his previous work has led him to this point , where poetry is married with public exhortation . |
| 23 | Increased understanding of the burdens which they carry should lead us to greater awareness of the strain under which they are so often put . |
| 24 | The fact that a particular sort of rationality is of our very essence explains why rational thinking can lead us to ethical self control . |
| 25 | It lead them to this house on Magdalen Road in Oxford … where law graduate Georgia Griffiths was living with her sister and two other girls . |
| 26 | With another black look , the man led us to that door over there . |
| 27 | Firms are assumed to have unbounded capacity for working out strategies and payoffs , and for working through the abstract chains of reasoning which lead them to non-co-operative equilibrium strategies . |
| 28 | Looking at the long sweep of the historical past , Temple had seen that ‘ Historical analogies lead us to one conclusion only ’ — that subject races invariably at some point regain their liberty . |