Sentence examples for lead only for from inspiring English sources

Denver's Danilo Gallinari had a season-high 28 points as the Nuggets opened a 98-83 lead, only for San Antonio to finish strongly.

It was 1-1, too, at Southend, where James Wesolowski gave Oldham the lead only for Ryan Hall to level midway through the second half.

Lee Frecklington had twice given Posh the lead only for a Gabriel Zakuani own-goal and a strike from Benjani Mwaruwari to bring Pompey level.

The 25,470 crowd were stunned early on when a Howard Pritchard header extended Gillingham's lead, only for an Eric Gates double to level proceedings on aggregate.

Despite that, Duka's breakaway goal had given them a half-time lead, only for Henry to seize his moment before setting up Wright-Phillips for his.

A drop goal from the full-back immediately afterwards stretched the lead only for Loki Crichton to respond with a penalty.

Petkovic had improved markedly since the opening set and she broke again for a 5-3 lead only for Keothavong to peg her back straight away.

Jordon Ibe gave them an early lead only for Harry Bunn to capitalise on hesitant defending to draw Hudderfield level 15 minutes later.

4.09pm BST Second set: *Sharapova 5-6 Halep (*denotes server) Halep scoots into a 0-40 lead, only for Sharapova to pull two points back with a pair of huge serves: 30-40.

In a repeat of the first leg, Wycombe dominated the opening stages and opened up a comfortable lead – only for Argyle to leave them sweating later in the contest.

In a frenzied second half, substitute Callum McGregor reduced the deficit before Patrick Roberts levelled to spark a crazy couple of minutes when the Motherwell substitute Lionel Ainsworth restored the hosts' lead only for Stuart Armstrong to equalise again.