Example sentences of "[vb past] led him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately for the farmers , their lord and master thought they must be more prosperous than they 'd led him to believe , and he promptly put the rents back up . ’ |
| 2 | Was he furious because she 'd led him on only to change her mind at the last minute ? |
| 3 | At any rate , Pound 's enthusiasm for Binyon 's version had led him to re-open correspondence with Binyon . |
| 4 | But it seems that his interest in primitive ritual had led him to place his own stress on life as a ritual . |
| 5 | Engels , on the other hand , states in the preface to the first edition of The Origin that ‘ Morgan in his own way had discovered afresh in America the materialistic conception of history , discovered by Marx forty years ago , and in his comparison of barbarism and civilization it had led him , in the main points , to the same conclusions as Marx' [ p. 71 ] . |
| 6 | The roughness and sheer wild irrationality of Lewis 's domestic persona were matched by the genuinely warm-hearted impulse which had led him to befriend Havard in the first place . |
| 7 | He looked unseeingly at the beautiful face across the table , hearing the echo of his quarrel with Francesca , feeling his mind still chuntering on in justification of the anger that had led him to cut off all possibility of their holiday next week . |
| 8 | As he was getting into the train , Jordi smiled and shrugged as he had done that night in Valladolid when the secret police had led him away . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His experience had led him to become a teacher at training sessions , but that prevented him from putting into practice his own form of calculated waging of war . |
| 11 | Trent had hoped to be able to observe Golden Girl but the rivulet had led him downstream and the yacht lay upriver beyond the bend . |
| 12 | He had come to Salzburg from his parental home in Augsburg in 1737 to study at the University with the intention of becoming a priest , but his love of music had led him instead to take up an appointment initially with the Canon of Salzburg before joining the Archbishop 's household . |
| 13 | An administrative career , and after 1848 his Bonapartist background , had led him in 1852 to the important prefectorate of Bordeaux , where he had hosted the famous reception in November of that year at which Louis-Napoleon in the course of his official speech had virtually inaugurated the Empire . |
| 14 | Bewildering doubts and dissatisfied creativity had led him to the hills in search of a poetic subject ‘ that should give equal room and freedom for description , incident , and impassioned reflections on men , nature , and society ’ . |
| 15 | He had fled to London in 1828 after the Catholic emancipation bill had been passed , forced to leave his beloved Ireland because his Catholic fervour had led him to kill a Protestant in an argument during the celebrations . |
| 16 | Some months later , after his treatment had ended , he wrote and told me that , during his summer holiday , his curiosity had led him to visit Bristol and its surroundings — and he had had the somewhat strange experience of finding his former name on a Parish Register in the district of Yate . |
| 17 | Wordsworth concludes The Prelude with tributes to his sister Dorothy , and to S. T. Coleridge , both of whom , in their different ways , helped him to resolve the personal crisis into which the events of the 1790s had led him , and I have given a short biography of each . |
| 18 | Writing to his mother and father , he said he wanted to explain that it was n't extravagance that had led him to buy not one coat but two , and two pairs of trousers . |
| 19 | His experience as president of the Scottish Institute had led him to believe that the way forward lay in joining forces with the English and Welsh in a single British Institute of Chartered Accountants , and in 1989 , he spearheaded the Scottish side of the campaign . |
| 20 | At the evening service on 29 December 1991 David Meikle shared with us his calling and the way the Lord had led him into missionary endeavour . |
| 21 | A whispering campaign by it that there was a communist cell linked with his cabinet and involving himself and his personal secretary , Lady Falkender , had led him to call in Sir Michael Hanley , director-general of DI5 , in the summer of 1975 . |
| 22 | He recalled other ways in which she had led him on ; the snowy mittened fingers laid on his arm during their walks , the occasional side-glance as if to show that he did not displease her , her endurance , to say the least , of his company . |
| 23 | Some earlier research in 1972 had led him to believe that very high pressures could be attained , and also that the hydrogen ions behaved as free in the palladium crystal lattice , moving around and probably bumping into one another . |
| 24 | They asked him how he proposed to work with Pilger and , to his surprise , told him that he had far more power than Pilger had led him to believe . |
| 25 | However fantastic the labyrinth into which that impulse had led him , his first visit to St Matthew 's at least had had the comforting stamp of normality and reason . |
| 26 | Whatever had happened to him on that first night in St Matthew 's vestry had led him , the next day , to change the whole direction of his life . |
| 27 | On a recent visit to WACC in London , he explained how his release from 17 months of brutal imprisonment under the dictator Duvalier in the mid-1970s had led him to devote his life to the struggle for justice and democracy in Haiti . |
| 28 | This first stage did come on reading Thomas Malthus 's ( 1766 — 1834 ) Essay on the Principle of Population , on 28 September 1838 ; after a generational conjecture — that higher animal foetuses are initially hermaphrodite — had led him to Adolphe Quetelet 's findings on the sex ratio at birth and so , it seems , to Malthus as an author linked by a reviewer with the Belgian social statistician ( Schweber , 1977 ) . |
| 29 | If politicians were normally able to manipulate freeholders and councillors by judicious use of their patronage powers , it is equally clear that they were on occasion themselves manipulated , and for all David Scott 's obvious embarrassment over the Robinson affair , it is evident that he felt unable to show much resentment towards the man who had led him into that predicament . |
| 30 | The Duke of Newcastle , an amiable obliging man whose sense of duty and failure to perceive his own inadequacies had led him to become Prime Minister in the last months of peace and to preside over the move to war , was now very well aware that things were falling apart . |