Example sentences of "[verb] led me " in BNC.

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1 I see no reason , in the light of these reports , to abandon the conclusion that my own experience of life in the islands has led me to .
2 From the point of view of problem solving , I find the cube has led me to formulate many problem-solving techniques in more generality than previously and to develop a general scheme for all problems of this sort .
3 My experience in England has led me to the conclusion that most people are unable to see me whole .
4 My own experience has led me to the conclusion that at the present stage of development of comprehensive education , a purely individual-based approach to support teaching is likely to prove counterproductive for a combination of three reasons :
5 It is the experience of listening to the responses or readings which have been triggered by them which has led me to question the nature of the arguments usually put forward by antiracists to explain racism .
6 ‘ My whole life has led me to this point .
7 None has led me to that dangerous conclusion that we were doing it better over there than here .
8 Recent experience of walking Long Distance Footpaths ( LDPs ) has led me to believe that there is a case for de-emphasising certain routes ( I understand that the RA currently recommends Duke of Edinburgh Award Groups to avoid the Three Peaks for example ) .
9 I am , by nature , one of the latter , but I yearn to be one of the former , and many years of travelling has led me to a kind of uneasy compromise .
10 Iii case this book should be read by some fundamentalist searching for straws to prop up his prejudices , let me state categorically that all my experience ( such as it is ) has led me to an unqualified acceptance of evolution by natural selection as a sufficient explanation for what I have seen in the fossil record .
11 Research over the past few years has led me to observe elsewhere ( Cartwright , 1984 ) that in education in general — and arts education is no different in this respect — assessment comes in all forms and guises , and that the type of assessment practised is dependent upon the reasons for its use .
12 I 've spoken to Ockleton , just as Heather did , and what he told me has led me here , just as it led her . ’
13 That has led me to conclude that higher and further education no longer provide a pathway out of poverty towards educational achievement and self-fulfilment , because students from poor backgrounds may be forced to give up studying and never achieve the educational qualifications that they seek .
14 I have a severe visual problem and this has led me into wonderful ventures around the galleries , ‘ seeing ’ art in my own way .
15 The affection I feel for you personally has led me , if anything , to understate it .
16 The development of the procedure from its origins in valuation to modern " expert " applications has led me to attempt to distinguish between these two types and to classify applications either as belonging to the traditional , valuation type , or as owing more to the concept of a technical expert , which I have labelled " industrial " .
17 In the beginning Marian took on a lot of criminal work and admits wryly that the ‘ old lags just thought they 'd led me have a try ’ .
18 She 'd led me on , I did n't think she deserved my sympathy after that .
19 ‘ I do n't know why you should have led me to believe he was some kind of old buffer . ’
20 A young , innocent man , very knowledgeable about ferrets , the driver had led me across a scrubby field that led to the riverbank and had then triumphantly pointed to a weathered stone below a thorn bush .
21 It was n't as though either of these men had led me to expect anything , gave me anything to hope for , it 's just that I really liked them , particularly the one I encountered later on .
22 My experience at the Fiesta Club had led me to the conclusion that , on average , a ‘ star ’ lasts about three years before fading to a nonentity and I intended to earn as much as possible in that time and retire — unhurt — with enough capital for a business .
23 Flaws that had led me to sign a contract for yet another coffee table book on the British hills .
24 Tightening the cord of my pyjamas , blinkered by my loosened hair , I listened outside the door of North One , where the sound had led me , a musical instrument playing a familiar tune , I could n't recall the name ; playing it so far , stumbling on a phrase and returning to the beginning .
25 I made one stipulation only to the Foreign Secretary , Sir Alec Douglas-Home , which was that my driver should not be the same amiable young man who had led me such a dance around Johannesburg .
26 I was slumped against him , almost fainting , conscious only that he had led me behind a red-brick loggia , obviously so that we would be out of sight of the people in the main concourse while he dispatched me .
27 ‘ Not so averse to the boy as you had led me to believe , eh ? ’
28 " You 've led me a merry dance , I must say . "
29 Then the other argument as I can see is that they 've led me to believe , I don I know you said that it 's automatic twelve month ban , but we just accepted that because I was led to believe that my job was safe .
30 ‘ He 's led me on . ’
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