Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb mod] lead " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The keys are hidden -under a clump of yellow flag that grows by the river , and if you will follow me I will lead you to them . " |
| 2 | Holmes said , ‘ I think this is a matter on which we should lead rather than follow ’ . |
| 3 | In all its forms , its object is to raise man above himself and to make him lead a life superior to that which he would lead , if he followed only his own individual whims : beliefs express this life in representations ; rites organize it and regulate its working . |
| 4 | It was not everyone who could lead a party of men from Innisfree on to the mainland without being spotted . |
| 5 | Very well , tell me you will lead this mission , and I will torment you no more . ’ |
| 6 | In some cases we will take action against you which could lead to you being dismissed . |
| 7 | Proper heading , quality logo paper , hook , statistics , something which would lead into the thing , more friendly language , it was very bureaucratic , was n't it , in a sense ? |
| 8 | Or is it a long-term thing , something which will lead to the things you just said you wanted : the wife , the kids , the home ? ’ |
| 9 | As far as I can tell , they have all three led blameless lives , had no criminal connection , kept themselves to themselves and as separate from Moslems as they could , and had no occasion to even meet a Zikr , let alone enter into a relationship with one which might lead them to want to kill him . |
| 10 | In December the Ethics Committee announced that the investigation had become a formal one which could lead to action against the senators if they were found guilty of infringing Senate rules . |
| 11 | The second view is that Judas told the chief priests that Jesus had claimed to be some sort of Messiah ; perhaps one who would lead a rebellion against the Romans . |
| 12 | Colborne was pulling the other way : he said there was a social revolution going on outside the palace gates ; he believed young people needed leadership as they never had needed it before , and the Prince was the one who could lead them . |
| 13 | I told him it would lead to his death . |
| 14 | British Airways examine every official accident report that is published by a national accident investigation authority to see whether there are any features in it which might lead to an improvement in the safety of their own operation . |
| 15 | Earlier in the year fittingly , during Passover , the festival which celebrates the Israelites ' escape from Egypt and the beginning of the journey which eventually took them to the Promised Land — Rabbi Moishe announced with quiet satisfaction that their contributions had mounted up to a sum sufficient to buy three hundred dunams of land in Palestine , that the purchase was in the process of being arranged on their behalf by the Jewish National Fund , and that he himself would lead an advance party of settlers from Cork before the end of 1920 . |
| 16 | Many of us have long thought that anyone who could lead the Labour Party out of the darkness of 1983 would find leading the country relatively easy — and a task for which , despite all the sneering of the snobbish clique that makes up the political élite in this country , it is not necessary to possess a double first from Oxbridge . |
| 17 | For the ‘ motions of the mind ’ , our desires and aversions , and what they may lead us to do , are not theoretical constructs known only by ‘ ratiocination ’ , and introduced as an intermediary stage in the reduction of political to natural philosophy . |
| 18 | Alan was well aware of his own gifts and of what they might lead him to become , but I am not sure he entirely welcomed his role as a leader of lesser men . |
| 19 | ‘ Scared of what it might lead to ? ’ he asked with gentle mockery . |
| 20 | In Chic Fashions v. Jones ( C.A. , 1968 ) Lord Denning said that the police could seize , not only the items specified in the warrant , but also anything which they reasonably believed was that item , anything which would lead to the identification of the item , any other goods stolen from the victim of the offence being investigated and anything else stolen by the suspect . |