Example sentences of "was leave the " in BNC.
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| 31 | But that day I was leaving the school gates with a group of boys when I saw Helen . |
| 32 | And when , ten minutes later , Alice was leaving the cathedral she had glimpsed him again . |
| 33 | Hansen was leaving the gym , guitar in hand , when a young man came over and said , ‘ Who do you think you are , Jimi Hendrix ? ’ |
| 34 | ‘ Shee-it , ’ I said , and felt guilty that I was leaving the island without sharing the chicken dinner that Sarah Straker was doubtless cooking for me at that very moment . |
| 35 | Shortly after he spoke , the first of what could become a flood of disgruntled clergy announced he was leaving the Church of England . |
| 36 | Just as I was leaving the studio , I was summoned back . |
| 37 | She … she knew I was leaving the room . ’ |
| 38 | The cat 's owner was leaving the area and could not keep the animal , and she wanted it to have a nice home . |
| 39 | On the fifty-ninth minute of the twenty-third hour , as I was leaving the country , I finally achieved the contract . |
| 40 | But as Christine was leaving the orphanage to take the blood sample to Bucharest , she heard a child screaming . |
| 41 | The lifeboat was struck by a large sea as she was leaving the harbour and Coxswain Wight had difficulty in manoeuvring clear of the narrow channel , before pausing to take stock of the conditions at sea and pressing on to clear off-lying rocks . |
| 42 | In 1931 Scrutton LJ said that , ‘ in many commercial matters the English law and the practice of commercial men are getting wider apart ’ , and noted that as a result commercial business was leaving the courts for arbitration . |
| 43 | Just as he was leaving the roof there was a crack which stung his eardrums and the flagpole , struck near the base by a round shot , came down on top of him dealing him a painful blow on the shoulder . |
| 44 | Chaca had even spray painted his tag ‘ Chaca ’ on the inside of the lift as he was leaving the criminal court building after being convicted of defacing public property . |
| 45 | I spoke to him like a mother but he was determined to put an end to her life , so on 11 January 1987 , when Paulette was leaving the home of her friends on the way to her own home , [ the defendant ] stopped her and shot her and then placed a call to my home to inform me of the murder . |
| 46 | ‘ But we did n't know she was leaving the child on her own , ’ cried Lily . |
| 47 | She , too , was leaving the house that day . |
| 48 | I was leaving the Star Zoo for the second time . |
| 49 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 50 | She was leaving the party . |
| 51 | The Secretary , Liz Tildesley , was leaving the club as a result of work commitments ; and the Treasurer , Alan Pedley , would not be standing again after having been in the post for six years . |
| 52 | He then waited for his new prime minister , Sharpour Bakhtiar , who had been imprisoned several times during his reign , and in whose hands he now was leaving the country . |
| 53 | ‘ You wrote that you caught him at his flat just at the time he was leaving the country . ’ |
| 54 | After that I forgot about seeing Tavett and did n't remember until I was leaving the building . |
| 55 | As I was leaving the room , however , he entered . |
| 56 | If the ship was leaving the port the boatmen have got ta be there to let go of the ropes . |
| 57 | As he was leaving the room , Holmes said : ‘ One more question , Dr Mortimer . |
| 58 | ‘ I saw him when I was leaving the market . |
| 59 | ‘ What happened was this : a dog ran out in front of me as I was leaving the car park , and I had to swerve in order to avoid it . |
| 60 | I wanted to make certain I was leaving the jeep with Kaptan — I wanted to establish my connection with the family , give a hint of trouble I could solve ( without making it look like a threat ) , and put myself into the frame without a hint of asserting myself . |