Example sentences of "was leave the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided that the best thing to do was to leave the porch just in case anyone came along , and to kill the time I needed to kill somewhere else . |
| 2 | To open the door and step inside was to leave the atmosphere of a hospital . |
| 3 | But , sad as I was to leave the arena of Ultra , for me there was no choice . |
| 4 | ( The previous method was to leave the pieces slightly large , and then to ease them by plane or chisel until they fitted into the mortises , etc . ) |
| 5 | The effect was to leave the peasant in a vicious circle of poverty . |
| 6 | The easiest course was to leave the car , which they did by the end doors , and they were still walking in single file through the train when it came into Hammersmith . |
| 7 | In Vienna , of course … my only conclusive recourse was to leave the city , which could not be arranged as quickly as I would have liked since I had army business there which demanded my attendance . |
| 8 | Her first step was to leave the kitchen exactly as he left it ; if he thought she had any intention of clearing his mess up behind him , then Luther was very much mistaken . |
| 9 | The Gang of Four were all keenly pro-Europe : Labour policy was to leave the EEC . |
| 10 | How happy I was to leave the island ! |
| 11 | But all he did was to leave the shore and head fast for another part of the lagoon , where the moulds and fungi overhand the water . |
| 12 | One option for holders , of course , was to leave the dollars on deposit with a US bank but this was discouraged by US banking regulations which prevented interest from being paid on deposits of less than thirty days and limited the rate payable on longer deposits to less than that obtaining elsewhere . |
| 13 | Some such cars were held up and trapped for up to six hours , for those who could the best option was to leave the car and complete the journey on foot . |
| 14 | The peasant 's ultimate weapon was to leave the manor , and the example of Forncett in Norfolk shows that between 1400 and 1575 , 126 serfs were recorded as withdrawing to 64 different places . |
| 15 | She was vaguely aware of being guided expertly away from the crowded floor , and it was n't until they stepped out into the cooler night air that she realised how much of a relief it was to leave the noise behind . |
| 16 | My stepfather died at the end of November 1991 and under his will my mother was left the life interest in the income arising from the sum of £60,000 with the remainder to my stepbrother . |
| 17 | Liz , 36 , was left the single parent of Amy , now five . |
| 18 | The Roman Research Trust , which was left the manor in Mrs Barrie Brown 's will says the cost of conversion in line with her wishes was too high . |
| 19 | Before I knew where I was , I had been wagered a great deal of money that I could not do it , and shortly before midnight I was leaving the hallowed portals of Ronnie Scott 's Club . |
| 20 | As I was leaving the house Pat shouted after me , ‘ Piper , your friend Taff who shares the trench with you in the orchard has been transferred to one of the Commando units around the village . |
| 21 | As I was leaving the front of the house two jeeps arrived with wounded aboard , one of whom I recognised straight away . |
| 22 | She said goodbye to Maggie and then , just as she was leaving the kitchen , she looked directly at Phoebe and added , |
| 23 | Then in September , Sue announced that she was leaving the BBC after 20 years to join Granada Television which , she said , was fully prepared to give her the freedom necessary to put together the type of programme she truly wanted to make . |
| 24 | At the same time the press had been tipped off that the Health Minister was leaving the country on holiday from Heathrow and half a dozen photographers had literally chased on to the runway to photograph him . |
| 25 | Back at Reckweilerhof in time for dinner , an old man was leaving the restaurant with a couple who were probably his son and daughter-in-law . |
| 26 | It suddenly seemed terrible that Marcus was leaving the flat . |
| 27 | They put their cases in the boot and within ten minutes he was leaving the outskirts of Brussels , heading east for Liège — the opposite direction to Bruges . |
| 28 | The odd balance of power within the city was almost destroyed entirely when on 12 November 1933 Adolf Hitler announced that Germany was leaving the League of Nations . |
| 29 | Delaney was leaving the cover of a vent pipe when it happened . |
| 30 | One Sunday afternoon , as Nathan was leaving the house , he came across Donald and the boy in the yard . |