Sentence examples for was leading for from inspiring English sources

I was leading for a long way but inexperience kicked in.

("The Social Network" was leading for Best Picture, as of Friday morning).

That Giro will have put him under pressure physically – there was something going on every day, and he was leading for a long time.

"Well, I am sometimes," she responded, thinking of a Bible study she was leading for the New York Yankees at the time.

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton was leading for much of the way, until he was clipped by Force India's Nico Hulkenberg in the fifty-fifth lap (of seventy-one) and forced to withdraw because of damage to his front suspension.

Mirko Sarovic, candidate of the Serb Democratic Party, founded by Radovan Karadzic, the indicted war criminal, was leading for president of the Serb Republic with 47percentt of the votes counted.

What has he been leading for the last four years, then?

He had to quit the firm he had been leading for just 15 months.

Veteran negotiator Saeb Erekat is leading for the Palestinians, assisted by Mohammed Shtayyeh.

What makes things so much more favorable for the Democrats, and so much harder for the G.O.P., is that in Michigan and Pennsylvania Obama has been leading for many months.

The detailed questions focusing on Mr. Giuliani, who has been leading for months in most national polls, were not asked about the other candidates.