Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] leave " in BNC.
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| 1 | No pupils refused to participate in the study , and as pupils were not warned about the administration of the survey we assumed that those registered pupils who did not complete the survey were either absent or had left the school . |
| 2 | Many of them , however , were attending , or had left , grammar schools , and thus were entering the middle classes . |
| 3 | Under the amended election law the president was provided with the power to appoint new deputies to replace those who had died or had left the Assembly since the last elections in 1972 . |
| 4 | Character A — or it might have been B again , for he seemed to be a right prune — had left late or had left early travelling at half the speed of the other . |
| 5 | He took down the painting and planned to leave with it , but then he heard Sabine and a man shouting in the lounge . |
| 6 | Miss Hepburn , 63 , who underwent surgery on Sunday , was listed in fair condition and expected to leave hospital within a week . |
| 7 | The crew was accused of trespassing and asked to leave by the police , who were called by the vicar when they arrived |
| 8 | The report from one such course recently was that , during the film , various people were tapped on the shoulder and asked to leave not only the showing , but also the company . |
| 9 | Tired , she got to her feet and made to leave . |
| 10 | Sir John Dacourt gathered his cloak and made to leave . |
| 11 | Benjamin turned and made to leave . |
| 12 | Having done so he folded the sheet of paper again , replaced it in his pocket and made to leave . |
| 13 | After the jury returned the unanimous guilty verdict , Fisher called out ’ Kangeroo Court ’ and made to leave . |
| 14 | ‘ That 'll be lovely , ’ grinned the old man as he drained his mug and rose to leave . |
| 15 | Linda saw the visit had tired her and rose to leave . |
| 16 | Someone ought to talk to Lily Bates , yes , that was what he had said and meant , but it might not have been him if he had n't seen her for himself that afternoon between five and six , the period between Hook Road School closing and Rose leaving her office at Belmodes ; the time Steve would have made his own . |
| 17 | He nodded , as if he could read her thoughts , and moved to leave . |
| 18 | Hebbert joined him and moved left to the obvious beetling crack and groove line he had spotted from below — omitting to pause and wonder why this particular line soared up straight as an arrow , on a route called Curving Crack ! . |
| 19 | In the 1980s , in principle at least , government drew back from collusion with pressure groups and tried to leave economic market conditions to decide policy . |
| 20 | At dinner he was utterly silent and tried to leave as soon as he had eaten sufficient but before the table was cleared . |
| 21 | Although alarms went off , these were initially ignored , and staff inside the ten-storey building had to be found individually and told to leave . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Between July 9 and 13 nearly 5,000 Albanians — mostly young men aged between 20 and 30 — who had sought refuge in foreign embassies in Tirana were given passports by the Albanian government and allowed to leave the country . |
| 24 | Similarly , the two brothers and four sisters of the Popaj family who had taken refuge in the Italian embassy in 1985 ( claiming persecution because of their father 's alleged wartime activities — see also p. 34249 ) were issued with passports and allowed to leave for Italy on May 16 . |
| 25 | He was released on Feb. 1 and allowed to leave for Damascus , Syria . |
| 26 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 27 | Reynard bowed and turned to leave . |
| 28 | Jerry then stood up and turned to leave , but Calman ran to him , grabbed an arm , and said , ‘ You do n't like me , I know . |
| 29 | ‘ You will survive long enough without food and water , ’ the Counsellor said , and turned to leave . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she said , and turned to leave . |