lead to do
Example Sentences
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The waiting game: waiting for either government or other publishers to take the lead to do something different just was not happening.”
From Scientific American • Feb. 12, 2013
Attorney General Griffin Bell is plainly appalled these days at the monastic life he must lead to do all the work before him.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“Where does that lead to, do you know?” asked the senator’s son.
From Dave Porter on Cave Island A Schoolboy's Mysterious Mission by Stratemeyer, Edward
"Alas!" said she, softly, "'t is hard to be received so, and me come all the way from Lancashire, with a heart like lead, to do my duty, God willing."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 by Various