Example sentences of "lead [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The search for counter-examples led them to the history of the family and of the primitive local community which they saw as kinship based . |
| 2 | Anderson captained Ireland on their short tour of France , led them to an unexpected victory over a French XV and keeps the job now but age and waning powers put a question-mark over his selection for the team at all . |
| 3 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 4 | It was precisely their erudition , their cultivation , their financial security , their disdain for the mediocre that led them to the gas chambers . |
| 5 | At the top of the staircase various Chamberlains , dressed in gold embroidered jackets , welcomed the guests and led them to the Grand Master of Ceremonies . |
| 6 | Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two . |
| 7 | Again , the would-be reformers ' interpretation of the 1980s led them to this conclusion . |
| 8 | Rough was lucky to miss out on one of Scottish football 's most infamous scandals , when he missed the taxi that whisked five if his international team-mates to the notorious bender in Copenhagen which led them to being banned for life . |
| 9 | The choice of Natal is strange as captain Craig Jamieson , the man who led them to the Cup in 1990 , is still very much involved in rugby . |
| 10 | One of the crooks was picked up half-a-mile away and he led them to the tot who was sitting unhurt on a pedestrian walkway . |
| 11 | They had a vaporised block that led them to an idée fixe about test-tube fusion being real . |
| 12 | The ad led them to Jennifer Vettel , who told the magazine that when her husband objected to her bike , she sold it . |
| 13 | Talbot led them to the wardroom and gestured them to their seats . |
| 14 | Myeloski led them to the room where the girl had been found . |
| 15 | It was one of the magnetic forces that drew them overseas , and led them to disappointment quite as often as to wealth . |
| 16 | Captaining Jamaica for the second successive season , he not only led them to Red Stripe Cup triumph ( their third in five years ) , but , with the ball , he broke the tournament record with 36 wickets at 11.30 . |
| 17 | Philpott led them to a pale-blue door at the end of the passage . |
| 18 | Clearly , parents generally must welcome the news that cuddling is not only nice but necessary ; perhaps , however , we should spare a compassionate thought once more for the intellectual mothers of the thirties , whose sufferings as they tried to be ‘ good ’ mothers are now repeated in the knowledge that all their efforts only led them to be ‘ bad ’ mothers : as one of our correspondents added , ‘ Here is Bowlby , still out to make us feel guilty — about our rejection of the children we loved but were not allowed to love . ’ |
| 19 | The employers " interests led them to be " nationalist " , arguing that to safeguard their share of the market and to maintain the Scottish capital as a printing centre , they had to keep down costs , or go out of business . |
| 20 | Their search for a new revolutionary perspective led them to Marxism and over the next decade Plekhanov , Axelrod and their ‘ Emancipation of Labour group ’ established in Switzerland a centre for the dissemination of Marxist ideas among Russian revolutionaries . |
| 21 | The junior led them to a trooper lying plastron up some distance from the others . |
| 22 | He led them to within thirty yards of the unsuspecting deer , then motioned for Joseph to sit down on the ground at the edge of the plain . |
| 23 | He led them to a dugout canoe half a mile downstream , and they poled slowly across to the other bank . |
| 24 | He gestured towards the table with an amiable smile and led them to the gate . |
| 25 | The TV producer led them to one of the last suites on the left and a young man in pullover and jeans swung round on his chair . |
| 26 | At noon , the exhausted Pack gathered together and Brown Owl led them to a shady area . |
| 27 | So , the desire for a yacht which would take him and his wife on a worldwide cruise , comfortably and quickly , led them to Warwick Collins after they had seen one of his previous yachts , called Fondue , a 38-footer ( 11.5m ) . |
| 28 | Working the 2 Step programme becomes progressively more relevant on a daily basis in the recognition that it provides such a superb philosophy of life than many recovering people come to consider that they were fortunate to have addictive disease because it led them to the 12 Step Programme . |
| 29 | Illness led them to France but in 1883 the family returned to Ireland . |
| 30 | Cross and Bevan 's interest in the chemistry of cellulose led them to the study of the viscose solutions produced by treating cellulose with a strong solution of caustic soda and then carbon disulphide vapour . |