• He led them to the front gate and used the keycard to open the door.
• Brady walked in front of them and led them towards the cabin.
• She led them to the front desk, where an old man with graying hair sat reading an old newspaper.

Synonyms

• In the rest of this article, we discuss the ideas and reasoning that led us to our final decision.
• Omar's reflections on his wife's motives lead him to contemplate his own life.
• When did the idea for the game first arise, and what were the key reasons that led you to decide to go ahead and develop it?

• Exciting results from early small trials led on to several large studies of low dose aspirin.
• The events of that day have led on to a war.
• Anyway, this then led on to a discussion of the hymns - well, songs, really - which we had to sing in primary assembly.

Synonyms

• The session was organised and led by the Community Librarian for Warminster.
• On Saturday morning there was a meditation followed by a session on healing led by a psychotherapist.
• She had led a £100m management buyout just one year previously.

• The musicians were members of the Scottish Symphony Orchestra, led by violinist Robert McFall.
• Hutchinson, a singer and musician who once led the Straight Ahead Jazz ensemble, does vocals on the disc.
• The group has a wide repertoire and is led by Carol Green, a music teacher, choir trainer and flautist.

• Hungary, Poland and Slovenia may well lead an accelerating regional recovery process.
• Even in Japan, the recent recovery was almost entirely led by exports.
• The current phase of recovery has been led by consumption rather than by investments.

• My parents may watch a lot of television, but they don't care for the local news leading off with murders.
• Two weeks ago, Stewart led off with a news story from CNN.
• For a change, we decided this week to lead off with Good News.

Synonyms

• He charged the man on the left, leading with his right fist and smashing it into the man's jaw dropping him to the floor.
• In the middle rounds, Calderon also began to mix a right hook into his offensive game plan, both punctuating combinations and leading with this rediscovered weapon.
• He led with a wild flurry of punches, but they were blocked effortlessly.

• These games also have strong restrictions on the cards that can be led or played to a trick.
• The person to the dealer's left leads a card, and everyone else plays a card, clockwise.
• In fact it is a normal tactic to lead lower spades to try to drive out the queen.

• In pioneering a new sort of scholarly publication the National Trust could lead the world.
• All these considerations indicate clearly why countries like the USA and Japan lead the world in the innovation and exporting of high-technology products.
• Swimming became a popular national exercise in which, for many decades, Britain led the world.

Synonyms

• She said there have been no leads or clues to their whereabouts.
• Officers are looking for new leads and clues as they hunt the sex fiend who assaulted a 17-year-old girl at knifepoint on February 25.
• Detectives searching for a missing Hull woman are following new leads which suggest she may have headed off to see her boyfriend after all.

Synonyms

• Planning an ongoing marketing campaign ensures a steady stream of new business leads.
• The remaining $6 million in sales were brought in by resellers using leads generated from visitors to the site.
• He made it a personal rule to generate at least one business lead for each new contact.

• If it was not the last trick, the lead for the next trick passes to the left.
• The queen may take a trick with more points later or win the lead at a crucial moment.
• The player on the dealer's right has the first lead, and the winner of the trick leads to the next trick.

• The winner of the trick is the last person who played a card of the same rank as the original lead or a wild card.
• If the lead is a trump card all the other players must play trump as well unless they don't have any.
• Most often no one will be able to beat the lead and the led cards will win the trick.

• They now have a four point lead over the Lancashire club and are eight points ahead of Oakworth.
• Going into the final day, Real Madrid had a one-point lead over bitter rivals Barcelona, who had not topped the table all season.
• Ann held a two shot lead over her nearest competitor, Kay Fanning, after the final eighteen holes.

Synonyms

• Luckily, the chemistry between the romantic leads feels real.
• The four leads are not actors that instantly strike me as the master thespians of our age, and yet here they bring unique strengths and gifts to their characters.
• Apart from the two male leads who were professional actors, non-professionals played all the other roles.

• Contemporary music is played by an orchestra that mainly uses European instruments with a lead singer and chorus.
• These three make up the band's trio of lead vocalists and songwriters.
• Four hours before the band was supposed to perform, the lead singer and guitarist was still in New York.

• Again, all the prime minister had to do was call for calm and he was part of the lead news story.
• Both local newspapers published lead editorials calling for the privatization of the system.
• When a story like this is promoted to the lead item on national news bulletins, you know that all perspective has gone out of the window.

• They finally got the break they needed when they found a way over the open water lead after a 15-hour slog through the blizzard.
• The drift-ice fields were forced together with such speed, that Johnsen supposed that in a couple of hours the whole lead would be completely closed.

• My feet were like lead and I was struggling.
• On the odd occasion I spent an extra hour on the training ground, but my legs were like lead the following day during the match.
• My arms and legs felt like lead, and I immediately collapsed to the ground.

• The church was restored by the late Godfrey Allen, who renewed the leads of the roof.

• Deep soundings above 6 fathoms (11 m) were impracticable so the practice then was to sound the depth using a line and lead.
• You'll feel weed fall against the line and the lead get picked up by the swell.