Example sentences of "that led [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was not wickedness that led him into crime but a cheerfully impulsive nature and an almost complete lack of reasoning power . |
| 3 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I scrambled up to find a rather nervous photographer who had not enjoyed the path that led him to that spot . |
| 6 | I want to take you through the thinking that led me to that conclusion , and then to concentrate on one of the keys to securing that future — the whole question of advancing the cause of children 's books . |
| 7 | It was precisely their erudition , their cultivation , their financial security , their disdain for the mediocre that led them to the gas chambers . |
| 8 | They had a vaporised block that led them to an idée fixe about test-tube fusion being real . |
| 9 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 10 | The high-flyers are easy to pick too , starting with the same title that led them in July last year , and for that matter back all the way to its expected original paperback appearance in April 1989 ! |
| 11 | Networks operating on this principle perform an operation that is likely to be extremely important for the neocortex , and it was actually the search for a mechanism that would do this that led us to the suggested modification rule : the modifiable interconnections tend to make the representative elements become uncorrelated , and thus to signal independently of each other . |
| 12 | The United States , faced with an allocation problem , began a review of its defensive commitments that led it to the conclusion that in the event of a military confrontation with the Soviet Union in Europe , the resources it could commit to the fledgling NATO alliance would be insufficient . |
| 13 | It was this pressure that led it into war in 1967 . |
| 14 | A useful outcome is the third ingredient , for what would be the point of skills that led you to a useless outcome ? |