Example sentences of "[vb past] lead the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herbert Wolfe , a Jew who fled Nazi Germany , helped led the campaign to save North Road station . |
| 2 | He very much admired the poetry of Ebenezer Elliott , the Corn Law Rhymer , that is , a poet who helped to lead the opposition to the laws which kept the price of bread artificially high , and said ‘ None of us have done better than he has at his best ’ . |
| 3 | We failed to lead the race for new products and we contributed to and suffered from heavy overcapacity . |
| 4 | Duncan Shearer and Mixu Paateleinen expected to lead the attack alongside Eoin Jess , the home fans should be in for an exciting ninety minutes . |
| 5 | What was she doing up there in that ancient weather-beaten house on top of the cliffs in which , according to Eleanor Fuller , she seemed to lead the life of a recluse . |
| 6 | She 'd led the field with Tom for a five-mile point at the end of the day . |
| 7 | ‘ I imagine he was referring to the Independence Day celebrations , ’ her husband had told her as he 'd led the way into the apartment . |
| 8 | The man who 'd led the fight to ban hunting since the Tories lost control of Wiltshire had the scent of victory . |
| 9 | And , and , and lets remember that the first big shock that British sportsmen got , the first shaking of the earth which intimated that we were n't so hot at these things as we used to be was in professional sport , it was in football , it was when the Hungarians beat England in nineteen-fifty-six , and the Hungarian army officer Elista Pushkas became erm a world figure because he 'd led the team that had humbled British football might . |
| 10 | She nodded assent and as I turned to lead the way I thought that at close quarters she was probably younger than I 'd assumed , or else that she was older but immature : an odd impression , fleeting and gone . |
| 11 | The Governor turned to lead the small procession out . |
| 12 | ‘ Retribution may be delayed , ’ said Prior Robert , and turned to lead the way out from the scriptorium , his agitated shadow at his heels . |
| 13 | More rigid than ever , the boy turned to lead the way . |
| 14 | The Duke held up his branch like a banner and began to lead the way along to the east gate , but a large part of the crowd stayed in a half-circle round the group at the table , as though waiting for the victor 's crow in the cockfight . |
| 15 | The Syrian intention was to move right across the front line and , with tins in mind , the officer with the radio began to lead the way up the avenue towards Martyrs ' Square . |
| 16 | Benedict made no reply to this , but , calling to the dog , who was hovering near by , he started to lead the way out of the thicket to the road . |
| 17 | England 's Jamie Spence and David Gilford contrived to lead the British assault on this £62,500 title at the halfway stage , but Montgomerie is now back among the infantry after a second-round 77 that enabled him to beat the halfway cut by just one stroke . |
| 18 | KATRIN DORRE , from Leipzig , who gave up a career as a medical student to become a full-time athlete , saved the blushes of the organisers of the 12th ADT London marathon when she managed to lead the field of over 25,000 across the line on Westminster Bridge yesterday . |
| 19 | The severity of the world recession and the weakness of the pound combined to lead the government to borrow foreign currency from the International Monetary Fund in December 1975 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Victoria , you 're a sensible girl , you go first , ’ was an order she heard often and with pleasure , for whatever ordeal into which she had to lead the rest , from construing straight-faced a suggestive passage of Ovid to pushing her pony through a muddy ford , was always rewarded by authority 's approval . |
| 22 | " I was tip nearly all night because I had to lead the first devotions at the High Council , with all those experienced and senior leaders of the Army world . " |
| 23 | Maladministration took its toll , and fifteen years later it amalgamated with another Hull organisation , the Hull Seamen 's Mutual Association ( 1881 ) to form the Hull Seamen and Marine Firemen 's Mutual Association led by that self same staid and stable personality J.B.Butcher who continued to lead the union until his retirement in 1912 . |
| 24 | Johnson Matthey continued to lead the market , selling over a third of the autocatalysts fitted to new cars sold around the world . |
| 25 | Here , for example , is an extract from a memorandum to a US delegate to the Paris Peace Conference by Lawrence of Arabia , who had led the Arabs to victory while torturing himself with the secret knowledge of his part in their betrayal : ‘ On 1 October ( 1918 ) , the people of Beyrout , in emulation of the Damascenes , turned on their Turkish garrison of 700 men , and took them prisoner … |
| 26 | BP , ICL , IBM , Volvo , British Gas in Wales , British Telecom in the South-west , and a clutch of local authorities , many of which had led the way , had all shown it could be done , with Ford announcing its partial ban recently . |
| 27 | It was they , shamingly , who had led the great discovery of old Germanic literature , which included the Old English texts Beowulf The Wanderer , The Seafarer and the great rhythmical prose-sermons of Aelfric and Wulfstan . |
| 28 | For 133 days in 1988 Lyle had led the US Money List , he had won the Phoenix , Greensboro and Masters titles and in the first months of 1989 he twice came second . |
| 29 | These were two ex-marines , one of whom had led the trek the previous year and who answered endless questions . |
| 30 | Det Supt Graham Gooch , who had led the murder inquiry , told the inquest how the assertion of Dr Alan Williams , another pathologist , that Mr Threlfall had been strangled , had led him to suspect murder . |