Example sentences of "[vb past] leave the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he tried to leave the field the ball suddenly dropped at his feet and he attempted a long-range crossfield pass aimed at Gordon Strachan . |
| 2 | Former England spinner Nick Cook clashed with Wasim Akram when the Pakistani all-rounder tried to leave the field during a last-wicket partnership in the tourists ' match against Northants . |
| 3 | Joyce described the scene as he and Mosley tried to leave the pavilion : |
| 4 | He tried to leave the chair and go , but did n't badly enough want to , and carried on with a furious daydream of what the trades-union movement might come to represent again in England , although England was only half his country . |
| 5 | when two men tried to leave the factory in this van which they 'd stolen from the compound . |
| 6 | she pretended to leave the bwca alone one evening , only to creep to his door and eavesdrop on his singing : |
| 7 | Next day , Margaret went down to Midhurst to inform Miss Scrimgeour that they proposed to leave the country . |
| 8 | Opposite Manescu a German , Helmut Ziegler , ex-STASI chief in Leipzig , rose to leave the aircraft . |
| 9 | Clarissa promised to leave the front door on the latch and pointed to the ceiling . |
| 10 | ‘ A thousand acres of good farmland was taken , thirty families evacuated leaving the nine families in Sesslagh and fifteen families of Farnsagh lopped off from the rest of the world . |
| 11 | We prepared to leave the next day . |
| 12 | Wendell Harvey drew a sigh of satisfaction as , together with a number of other older parents , he prepared to leave the party . |
| 13 | So they both prepared to leave the following day . |
| 14 | The special relationship Finniston forged between top management and the work-force at British Steel is epitomised by the fact that he was given farewell parties by each of the seven major steelworks when he came to leave the corporation at the end of ten years . |
| 15 | We have found no documentary evidence at all to explain how such a large body of men came to leave the 5 Corps area , eventually to turn up in northern Italy . |
| 16 | ‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . |
| 17 | No wonder the young bluetits took off like rockets when the time finally came to leave the nest . |
| 18 | He said Muslim civilians could be evacuated or were free to stay in the enclave and Serb forces would allow the sick and wounded to leave the area . |
| 19 | It struck me as a bit odd that it never seemed to leave the ground . |
| 20 | This situation , in which other countries were relying on the United States to provide them with the dollars needed to boost their reserves , seemed to leave the USA in a highly privileged position , for the only way that other countries could accumulate reserves was if the USA provided them , by spending abroad more than it received . |
| 21 | Not for her the summit this day ; she 'd left the others to it . |
| 22 | ‘ The judge agreed to sign a warrant for Thom 's arrest as soon as it was clear he 'd left the country with Eva . ’ |
| 23 | Philip was glad he 'd left the wire and cutters up in the wood . |
| 24 | When I 'd left the horse in the yard and gone in for breakfast I found both Mackie and Sam Yaeger sitting at the table with Tremayne , all of them discussing that day 's racing at Nottingham . |
| 25 | He cut up through the forest to where he 'd left the shotguns and followed the treeline round to the left until he hit a shallow ravine almost opposite the cabin . |
| 26 | Maggie would have left at that point , but as her bed was in the kitchen she could n't get into it until after he 'd left the room . |
| 27 | There was an Audi which passed me soon after I 'd left the pub . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought you 'd left the country for good . ’ |
| 29 | He 'd left the castles and the monuments behind , he was climbing a dune that was featureless , untouched . |
| 30 | In a fit of unshyness she 'd left the shoe shop and was working as a receptionist at a doctor 's practice . |