Example sentences of "was leave [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first step was to leave Salamanca . |
| 2 | The result was to leave London without an elected representative body for the first time in a hundred years , and all the metropolitan areas without an authority responsible for producing an overall strategic plan . |
| 3 | The idea was to leave FRCN with the responsibility for national and international broadcasting : the Nigerian government would speak with one voice to its people and to the outside world . |
| 4 | At the time there were compelling strategic reasons for making this decision , but its long-term effect — as we shall see , a rather momentous one — was to leave de Gaulle a symbolic leader rather than the head of a partisan movement . |
| 5 | Her sister was leaving London with a married man of whom Claudia had never heard . |
| 6 | She could not have packed a more unsuitable set of garments for tonight 's escapade , but then no such prospect had even crossed her mind when she was leaving London . |
| 7 | Now Richard was leaving Oxford , it might be hard , at first , for us to manage on his salary . |
| 8 | He tried once more to see the Queen but her fat , pompous chamberlain rudely announced that Lady Yolande was leaving Scotland and had no wish to discuss anything with anyone . |
| 9 | My Treatise on the Novel , with a long essay on Ivy 's novels , appeared just as I was leaving England , and she wrote her gratitude to me in Egypt . |
| 10 | But Sir John French , already disheartened by the news that the French Government was leaving Paris for new headquarters at Bordeaux , was thinking of retreat to the Channel ports . |
| 11 | Yes , I was leaving Paris . |
| 12 | On one occasion , Du Camp records , ‘ Flaubert was leaving Paris for Rouen when she entered the waiting-room of the station and went through such tragic scenes that the railway officials were obliged to interfere . |
| 13 | ft informed us that he was leaving Salamanca for England on his motor bike , via Cherbourg , and that we could expect him in Bath on a certain day . |
| 14 | Hatch & Hodges was leaving Sweetmary partly because there was n't enough business from here south ; partly because the railroad was taking too much business other places . |
| 15 | Last month , Moscow Mafia chieftain Valery Dlugach , nicknamed Globus , was leaving LIS 'S at 3 am when he was shot dead with a Simonov sniper rifle from a rooftop opposite . |
| 16 | And then she heard a gunshot and the sound of a horn , and looking back she saw , high on Ballymacadoyle Hill , her own father and brothers and a crowd of others too , and they were waving and shouting — and suddenly she understood exactly what was happening : they were giving her their last farewell ; she was leaving Ireland , and might never return . |
| 17 | Chalmers has been at the centre of speculation this week , one report suggesting he was leaving Melrose to join Newcastle Gosforth . |
| 18 | Reportedly , the victim 's car had been stopped at the post as it was leaving Lithuania , and an exchange of shots had followed , although reports from Lithuania and Byelorussia offered conflicting versions of events . |
| 19 | He informed Attlee ( 13 May ) that independence must be attained ‘ early in 1948 ’ ( Attlee had already announced that Britain was leaving India before June 1948 ) . |
| 20 | But ships are too valuable to lie idle for very long , and Robert barely had a month in which to re-acquaint himself with his new wife and pat his young infants on the head before he was leaving John Street and Stepney again — through Limehouse into Poplar and aboard the Orynthia in West India Dock . |
| 21 | Clearly it was done at Oliver 's invitation and Rain would normally have welcomed company ; but in her glum mood she expected Oliver would flirt with Linda , and Linda would be amused at Rain 's expense , and it would be quite impossible to spoil their fun by mentioning that Oliver was leaving Kington Square . |
| 22 | One night , a Wednesday , I was told that I was leaving Holloway the next day to go up to Risley remand centre because my judge was at Sheffield . |
| 23 | Nevil caught up with Maggie as she was leaving Templeton 's . |
| 24 | ‘ I was leaving God out , ’ said Edward . |
| 25 | Rabbi Shmuel Zehavi was leaving Miles Engado 's quarters as Piper arrived . |