Example sentences of "leaving [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dick wrote : " He has a happy personality and puts people at their ease , leaving them with a pleasant impression … |
| 2 | She had found a retired garda sergeant and his wife , whose family had grown and scattered , leaving them with a large house and room to spare . |
| 3 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |
| 4 | He went out , leaving them in a bitter silence . |
| 5 | And so it proved for Paula , whose father died when she was 29 ‘ leaving me with no senior protector and no-one to love me unconditionally . |
| 6 | ‘ She just dropped dead of a brain tumour at the age of thirty , leaving me with a ten-year-old girl . |
| 7 | Look out for models that are freestanding when folded and which can be collapsed using one hand only , leaving you with a spare arm to hold the baby . |
| 8 | An employee was made redundant and handed a letter saying that the cheque for £1000 which accompanied it constituted a ‘ lump sum payment for severance ( including redundancy payment ) , the acceptance of which is final settlement leaving you with no outstanding claim against the Council ’ . |
| 9 | Six or seven has the same effect if you land right , leaving you with an aching crotch and bruised joints if you 're lucky . |
| 10 | Antiques they may be , but one good reason for choosing a record deck so late in the day is that , unlike CD , the technology is tried and tested and not susceptible to the great leap forward , leaving you with an obsolete model . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Amex 's chairman , James Robinson , took an $800,000 cut in pay last year because of poor profits , leaving him with a miserly $1,798,077 . |
| 12 | Blissett , 28 , had been accused of ‘ cynically and deliberately ’ thrusting his elbow into Uzzell 's face in a mid-air duel , leaving him with a fractured cheek bone and eye socket . |
| 13 | Klima 's girl disappears into the Prague bars , leaving him with an imaginary address . |
| 14 | It also provides the context in which to consider both the claim that for the later Foucault knowledge is absolutely determined , leaving him in the impossible situation of requiring something outside this for any prospect of critique , as well as the question of exactly how power and resistance are interdependent and to what extent they are separable . |
| 15 | But , leaving her for a brief while , he went to instruct Ivo to drive her back to her hotel , and then escorted her out through the front door . |
| 16 | A court was told that Rebecca Frak punched the old lady in the face , leaving her with a bruised eye . |
| 17 | He strode away without giving her a chance to speak , leaving her with the distinct impression that she had just been steamrollered . |
| 18 | Worst of all , her self-image was low with the best years of her life fast disappearing , taking her previous good health with it and leaving her with the excess baggage . |
| 19 | He looked at her doubtfully , as troubled at leaving her with the distressed child as Edna had been at leaving Liza with Celia a short time before . |
| 20 | Even as she watched they disappeared over the edge , leaving her in a watery isolation . |
| 21 | They even put him in the coffin and shipped him home instead of leaving it to a local undertaker . |
| 22 | It is said that the most the justices should do if they think that contact should not take place is to say that there should be no order as to contact , leaving it to the local authority and the parent by agreement to make any other provisions they wish . |
| 23 | Gold has been stripped of the magical investment properties once ascribed to the metal , leaving it to the merciless forces of physical supply and physical demand . |
| 24 | So the Old Parsonage remained until the American Mr Stucley bought it from the church in the 1930s , thereafter leaving it to the National Trust . |
| 25 | Police are searching for people who attacked a pony , leaving it with a gaping wound six inches long in its leg . |
| 26 | An alternative would therefore be to use a UK-resident Newco for the share/debenture exchange and , to circumvent the capital gains tax disadvantage of this , it could soon after the acquisition transfer its stake in Target to the partnership by way of a capital distribution , leaving it with the loan-note obligations to the vendor shareholders and the cash to meet such obligations . |
| 27 | If it has the Zenith then , if you are leaving it for a long period , try pulling out the choke after it has stopped . |
| 28 | However , jailing Shields for three months , Sheriff William Fulton told him : ‘ It is not so much a case of stealing from this house as plundering it , ransacking it and leaving it in an awful mess . |
| 29 | Such surveys are , of course , confidential leaving us with a cold set of statistics and meaningless fractions such as . |
| 30 | Now sad to say all the little businesses have gone , leaving us with the beautiful church and small post office . |