Example sentences of "[noun] that lead him " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fourth series ( starting on Wednesday , BBC1 , 4.35pm ) covers plenty of ground quizzing people about relationships , models about their looks and one teenager with an obsession that led him to wash his hands until they bled . |
| 2 | It was this casualness that led him , as Edmund Wilson reported , to be humorous in private about his own reputation , and " offhand and vague " about matters he had once taken seriously . |
| 3 | It was Mr Nearn 's interest in the car that led him , in 1959 , to set up Caterham Car Sales and Coachworks with three friends . |
| 4 | Again , it was reason rather than faith that led him to believe that this was the only adequate ground for the proclamation of the universal offer of the Gospel . |
| 5 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 6 | It was not wickedness that led him into crime but a cheerfully impulsive nature and an almost complete lack of reasoning power . |
| 7 | The lack of judgement that led him to write to Routh in such a vein was Nora 's fault . |
| 8 | He was a keen student of the scriptures , particularly the Book of Revelations , and while meditating in his Calabrian retreat on the mystery of the Trinity and how it related to the time-process he had moments of intense spiritual illumination that led him to formulate a new millenarian philosophy of history . |
| 9 | In interviews , Gedge said he was fascinated by the downside of Best 's character ; the flaws in his make-up that led him to skip training session and stay in discotheques ( as they were then called ) for hours after he had officially opened them . |
| 10 | As a young man he had a prophetic revelation that led him to preach a new faith in place of the prevailing polytheism . |
| 11 | I suppose it was discretion that led him to omit he was visiting General & Cumbria Assurance . ’ |
| 12 | Not our questions about the problem of God , but God 's call and invitation to us determined the direction of his thought and shaped his writing ; and it was this basic orientation that led him on to the restatement of christological and trinitarian dogma as the foundation and horizon of theology itself . |
| 13 | The observations that led him to make the distinction are deceptively simple . |
| 14 | It is his obsession with figures that leads him to make the crucial economic mistakes that he made . |
| 15 | WHAT IS it about Frank Oz that leads him constantly to make so-so films with fabulous trailers ? |
| 16 | It was the same mentality that led him into the folie de grandeur of thinking that , having been a champion driver , he was also fitted to run a motor-racing team — indeed , to think that he was better fitted to do so than those for whom he had worked and driven . |
| 17 | I scrambled up to find a rather nervous photographer who had not enjoyed the path that led him to that spot . |
| 18 | Erm , apparently that 's what the trouble with the ratifying in Congress that led him erm , some degree to another centre in Massachusetts . |
| 19 | He thought of Alan Millet … did n't know why , could n't place the trigger that led him to Alan Millet and a pub in the Elephant and Castle south of the Thames . |