Example sentences of "led him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shelford was in Wales last October to watch Neath beat Toulouse , a result which has led him to a conclusion similar to Wyllie 's : ‘ From the performance Neath put on that night , Welsh rugby is in pretty healthy hands . ’ |
| 2 | It could and should have led him to great opportunities . |
| 3 | Bewildering doubts and dissatisfied creativity had led him to the hills in search of a poetic subject ‘ that should give equal room and freedom for description , incident , and impassioned reflections on men , nature , and society ’ . |
| 4 | This passion for haute cuisine has led him to an involvement with the restaurant industry itself . |
| 5 | Had it also led him to his death ? |
| 6 | This first stage did come on reading Thomas Malthus 's ( 1766 — 1834 ) Essay on the Principle of Population , on 28 September 1838 ; after a generational conjecture — that higher animal foetuses are initially hermaphrodite — had led him to Adolphe Quetelet 's findings on the sex ratio at birth and so , it seems , to Malthus as an author linked by a reviewer with the Belgian social statistician ( Schweber , 1977 ) . |
| 7 | Kitson was a prolific inventor whose own difficulties in financing and manufacturing his patents had led him to a radical critique of the banking system . |
| 8 | His emphasis on the " common style " suggests that he is no longer interested in talking to himself but to others , and Four Quartets is at one level an oratorical performance : it would not be too much to say that all of his previous work has led him to this point , where poetry is married with public exhortation . |
| 9 | The crucial importance of the stabilising influence of Rirette in Nizan 's personal development can not be overstated , and there are certainly grounds for drawing a parallel between , on the one hand , the blossoming at a distance of Nizan 's love and affection for Rirette , with the consequent calming of personal anxieties , and on the other , the burgeoning at a distance of his hatred and hostility for those political , social and cultural forces in French society which he considered to have led him to the brink of suicide and despair . |
| 10 | My father felt that his lack of poise and connections had led him to being passed over in favor of people of less ability but more social graces . |
| 11 | The path had led him to the edge of a cliff ! |
| 12 | Gotti , whose sartorial taste had led him to be widely known as the " Dapper Don " , was charged by federal prosecutors with five murders , extortion , illegal gambling and obstruction of justice . |
| 13 | After an initial hesitation in December that lasted no more than forty-eight hours , the King 's sense of fair play had led him to the same conclusion . |
| 14 | Quick wit and cleverness at school had shifted him quickly from his roots in the Belfast underclass , and his natural proclivities had led him to the theatre set , a wee bit of acting and extra-work from time to time , usually as a gunman or a thug and once , memorably , as a rather well-fed hungerstriker . |
| 15 | It is necessary to turn back to Ezra 's childhood to find a key to that dire impatience which has led him into so strange a spiritual home as Fascist Italy . |
| 16 | But Dr Jones 's involvement with industry has led him into difficulties — which lend a critical edge to the parable . |
| 17 | Perhaps no player has ever been quite as competitive as Botham , and if his combativeness has led him into trouble off the field it has generally worked in his favour on it — except when he has refused to part with the ball despite not bowling well , or when he has holed out in the deep when a more circumspect approach was required . |
| 18 | At the evening service on 29 December 1991 David Meikle shared with us his calling and the way the Lord had led him into missionary endeavour . |
| 19 | If politicians were normally able to manipulate freeholders and councillors by judicious use of their patronage powers , it is equally clear that they were on occasion themselves manipulated , and for all David Scott 's obvious embarrassment over the Robinson affair , it is evident that he felt unable to show much resentment towards the man who had led him into that predicament . |
| 20 | A kid had led him into trouble . |
| 21 | For one thing , his obsession with tactics has led him into an absurd devaluation of the merits and achievements of Peter Beardsley . |
| 22 | The upshot is that Marx never even concerns himself with questions such as the relation between individual perceptions to objects or the texture of feelings , sensations and thoughts , which might have led him towards a theory of where individuality occurs . |
| 23 | His own inclination would have led him towards this first interview three or four days earlier . |
| 24 | When de Man subjects the metaphor of the fountain to " Proust 's own injunction " to submit the image to the " test of truth " , he apparently loses sight of the way that his own conception of metaphor as " intratextual complementarity " of inside and outside has led him towards the aporia . |
| 25 | An administrative career , and after 1848 his Bonapartist background , had led him in 1852 to the important prefectorate of Bordeaux , where he had hosted the famous reception in November of that year at which Louis-Napoleon in the course of his official speech had virtually inaugurated the Empire . |
| 26 | It was this challenge which seems to have led him in 1896 to call a meeting in Bride Street , London , of a few carefully chosen colleagues which resulted in the establishment of the International Federation of Ship , Dock and River Workers which was renamed in 1898 the International Transport Workers ' Federation . |
| 27 | It has led him from the brooding atmosphere of his early novels to the limpid clarity of his last . |
| 28 | And Jon Swain , whose incurable romanticism had led him before Vietnam to enlist in the Foreign Legion , when asked to summarise his feelings said , ‘ It 's another woman , is n't it ? ’ |