Example sentences of "lead [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ted Morgan 's car was parked high above the town about five yards down a narrow can-track which led off the road between two steeply sloping fields . |
| 2 | He led off the line and stayed in front for five of the 15 laps before driving into the pits to have a misfire cured . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's something else you have n't seen , ’ Luke said , unlocking a door which led off the studio into a small gallery . |
| 4 | They took a winding dirt alley that led through the back of the village between houses and outhouses . |
| 5 | Leaving the cottage , Melissa climbed the stile and made her way along the footpath which led past the church to the village . |
| 6 | They drove in from the west , on the 243 through Gunzerode , and along the cracked road that led past the IFA Motorenwerk where they once made bicycles and now were being upgraded to motor bikes . |
| 7 | Doreen and Silas were still where she had left them , making two shadowy figures in the moonlight , and , even as she watched , they moved in the direction of the road that led towards the highway . |
| 8 | Creed told him to take a right turn , down a narrow track that led towards the ocean . |
| 9 | A short time later they were making their way along the road that led beyond the property , and had not travelled far before Silas turned the minibus along a side-road that led towards the boundary . |
| 10 | We were now on the glossy blacktop that led towards the army laundry , Rosa 's old creche . |
| 11 | Once Shawcross had agreed to lead for the Government in the debate on the compromise clause , the possibility of a damaging resignation receded . |
| 12 | He followed Creed 's directions , leaving the road for an unpaved track that seemed to lead towards the ocean . |
| 13 | He would have preferred to lead into the topic more subtly , but did not wish his Uncle to overhear the discussion . |
| 14 | Rutger often uses chord tones other than the root to a give a smoother movement between chords : eg. the min 7th ( D ) of Em7 to lead from the root ( E ) to the next chord root ( C ) in the bars 14 and 15 , followed by the major 3rd ( B ) of G major in the same bar . |
| 15 | No one would argue about that and she believes it 's the duty of any prime minister to lead from the front . |
| 16 | But there again , not everyone cares to lead from the front , like Thatcher.He may lack his own philosophy , but he is a shrewd party manager . |
| 17 | Fashanu , included in the squad for today 's boxing day clash with Wimbledon 's Selhurst Park landlords , Crystal Palace , last night promised to lead from the front in the club 's fight against relegation . |
| 18 | She found her place in the team , because you do n't always have to lead from the front . |
| 19 | ‘ You know she does n't have the voice , and she 'll already be covering two heavy roles if she is to lead in the Baron and sing Juliette in our new Luxembourg . |
| 20 | At moments of crisis a nation needs a leader able to lead in the way Margaret Thatcher led then . |
| 21 | Sleep is the only cure for such turbulence , but it 's difficult to achieve , and Mick was hardly rested by the time it was his turn to lead in the dampness of the new morning . |
| 22 | It is an opportunity given to few to lead in the creation of a new Department of State , especially one which has so much to contribute to your own vision of improving the quality of life in this country . |
| 23 | The first type of state is the case where monotonous driving on featureless roads , particularly motorways/highways , has been claimed to lead to the driver falling into a trance-like state in which they may fail to adequately respond to changes in the road environment . |
| 24 | The danger of the current developments is two-fold : that they are likely to lead to the curriculum becoming dominated by technique ; and that the techniques in question are imported from the outside world , and are imposed arbitrarily upon , and unconnected with , the curriculum . |
| 25 | In other words , the doctrine of the internality of relations together with the thesis of the independence of substance seems logically to lead to the position of ontological monism ; conversely , the monist thesis seems necessarily to presuppose the thesis of the internality of relations . |
| 26 | The general election which should have come by 1940 seemed unlikely to lead to the return of a majority Labour government but it was postponed because of the declaration of war on 3 September 1939 . |
| 27 | It is not ground for objection that the information sought will be inadmissible at the trial if the information sought appears reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence . |
| 28 | Research programmes will be progressive or degenerating depending on whether they succeed in leading or whether they persistently fail to lead to the discovery of novel phenomena . |
| 29 | Around Calais , construction work will create a massive new rail terminal and a road system to lead to the tunnel at Calais . |
| 30 | These changes in the international competitiveness of UK exports and imports are likely to lead to the development of a UK balance of payments deficit . |