Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] leave " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let's make somewhere to leave them . ’ |
| 2 | Go straight uphill in second field , initially with right edge and the barn 100 yds away ; the route finally veers right to leave field by far right-hand corner . |
| 3 | In the home computer market speech synthesis is generally used to enhance games ; scores are read out and warnings of enemy attack can be given verbally leaving the player free to concentrate on the tactics of the game . |
| 4 | Farmers given right to leave collective farms with allotment of land and equipment . |
| 5 | WHW turns right to leave river after 500 yds ( waymark ) , turning left 300 yds later at T-junction ( waymarked ) . |
| 6 | Brigadier Smithson , who was apparently due to go on leave the next day , rang Southern Command and managed to arrange that he should go straight to London by train after the conference . |
| 7 | At the inquiry , called by the stewards after Willie Carson had driven Iywaan home along the rail , Eddery explained that Alhamad had been hanging badly left throughout the last half-mile . |
| 8 | Against this decision the applicant sought and obtained leave to appeal to Her Majesty in Council , but since there was an issue both as to the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal to hear the appeal from Barnett J. , and as to the power of that court to grant onward leave , the applicant also applied to Barnett J. himself for leave to appeal direct . |
| 9 | In other words , Sergeant Wilson ( who has since left the force ) agreed to compromise to enhance his career opportunities rather than present any challenge to the system . |
| 10 | To put the implementation entirely at the door of Mr Tomalin , who has since left Tokyo to take a key position in our head office , is nonsense . |
| 11 | Snapped up instantaneously by sister channel MTV , the show has since left Americans drooling in anticipation of a forthcoming full-length series of gross acting characters undergoing all manner of grotesque facial distortions and transmutations . |
| 12 | Only in School G was there evidence of study skills genuinely permeating the lower-school curriculum , though again this initiative was very much identified with a dynamic coordinator of IS who has since left the school . |
| 13 | In a press statement , visiting Capital House Chief Executive Norman Riddell — who has since left to join Invesco Europe as Chief Executive — and the Manx subsidiary 's Managing Director Bob Straskiewicz said that Capital House was a truly world-wide operation . |
| 14 | These laws may have originally been decreed by God , but it appears that he has since left the universe to evolve according to them and does not now intervene in it . |
| 15 | He has since left BP to sign up for an American company in Oklahoma . |
| 16 | But Mr Loughran 's misfortunes have not finished there his fiancee has since left him . |
| 17 | It takes little thought to see that someone who is physically crippled and confined to a wheelchair may still lead a very full life if his mental and higher faculties are in good order whereas a physically fit but totally demented person has little left to give and little capacity to receive except for physical care and a little love . |
| 18 | A party seeking to enforce the clause which has been attacked as being an unreasonable restraint of trade will usually argue in the first place that the restriction as a whole is reasonable and secondly that any part which is unreasonable can be severed thereby leaving only the reasonable part which should be enforced . |
| 19 | You need n't be a ‘ saint ’ to face it , just brave enough to leave behind ‘ all our yesterdays ’ . |
| 20 | The barge carrying the body springs a leak , his ceremonial uniform is soaked as he frantically bales , he worries about the expensive watch which he has inadvertently left on the coffin , the ceremony leaves him with a bad cold which he tries , not altogether successfully , to hide when he is presented to the King . |
| 21 | I 'm just trying to keep his feet on the ground and try to make up the yardage , but Lee hits out of the bunker and thinks it has all left him . |
| 22 | The real world has long left behind the age when old so-and-so could decide ‘ I rather like this slogan ’ or ‘ My constituents think we ought to do such and such ’ without that ‘ feeling ’ being backed up by professional research and experience . |
| 23 | Unusually in a debate of this kind , the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) has sat down leaving me with only 22 minutes in which to reply . |
| 24 | Mr Jackson , a well established trader , has apparently left without trace and his shop was stripped of its goods . |
| 25 | ‘ Mike Leander has basically left the music business , Jeff Wayne was busy with ‘ Spartacus ’ and Visconti wanted an astronomical fee . |
| 26 | Magnet 's finance director Albert King has suddenly left the company , it was disclosed last night . |
| 27 | … off the pitch Oxford may have a new chairman this week while Swindon are still refusing to say why their Chief Executive , Peter Day has suddenly left the club … as Erika Barnes now reports . |
| 28 | That her novels are not better known is due largely to her extreme modesty about her literary abilities ; but there is no doubt that her concise , deceptively light prose style , reliance on dialogue to carry the plot , and delight in satirical exaggeration influenced both Firbank and Evelyn Waugh [ q.v. ] , and that she has thus left her mark on the development of the twentieth-century novel . |
| 29 | The commander of UN troops in Bosnia , General Philippe Morillon , has been holed up in the town for the past week vowing not to leave until the safety of the inhabitants is assured . |
| 30 | Of many cup-painters the greatest , perhaps , with Onesimos , is one who worked regularly with a potter Brygos but has not left his own name , so the Brygos Painter . |