Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] leave [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | In the summer months do n't shut your plants in a hot car or leave them in the sun while they are waiting to be loaded . |
| 3 | Piquet 's 200 mph crash nearly took off his legs and left him with a limp for life . |
| 4 | I got on my bike and went back to the house a bit recklessly , shooting through puddles on the path and taking the Jump — a bit on the path where there 's a long downhill on a dune and then a short uphill where it 's easy to leave the ground — at a good forty kilometres per hour , landing with a muddy thump that nearly had me in the whin bushes and left me with a very sore bum , making me want to keep opening my mouth with the feeling of it . |
| 5 | 6 assorted jars of chutney , unused ( I do n't know about you but I seem to accumulate chutney , pickles , lemon curd , etc. , faster than I can demolish it and rather than throw it away when useless , I 'd prefer to give it a good home — the best way of all is to sneak the jars into the National Trust shop at your local Hall or Towers and leave them among the chutneys already there ) |
| 6 | Ian came with us part of the way , so we took two cars and left ours at the finishing point and Ian 's at the entrance to the track . |
| 7 | They then bundled him out of the car and left him on the road . |
| 8 | It was carved into planes of rugged indifference , though the blue eyes that blazed at Charity were filled with cynical censure that left her in no doubt that he had heard almost every word Mandy had uttered about him . |
| 9 | Take it from the liquid , sprinkle it with oil , press it between two plates and leave it until the next day . |
| 10 | Is the Prime Minister aware that in the year since he took office Scottish dole queues have lengthened by a further 28,000 , leaving almost 250,000 Scots without work and leaving him with an even worse record than his predecessor , the former first lady of mass unemployment ? |
| 11 | Tom gave a slow , satisfied nod and left them after a last reassuring pat on Faye 's shoulder . |
| 12 | He took limes from his pyjama pockets and left them on the blankets . |
| 13 | The anxiety about case loads was accompanied by a concern over the provision of ‘ cover ’ together with some concern about the isolation of the development officer 's position , which did not fit into any overall management structure at Age Concern England and left them without a full-time support , supervision and management back-up service . |
| 14 | Ruth Michaelis felt betrayed from the time her mother brought her over to England and left her with the Reverend Stead and his family . |
| 15 | I remember when Mike was a baby and I went home with my shopping and left him at the check-out in Sainsbury 's . |
| 16 | Florence Ames took off her old shoes and left them on the step . |
| 17 | Any action on the part of a religious or other teacher which undermines an individual 's awareness of his personal and family duties and leaves him with the means to claim that a ‘ god ’ will relieve him of them , is an action which is utterly irresponsible . |
| 18 | You will then be visited about every five days by a nurse who collects the milk and leaves you with a fresh supply of bottles . |
| 19 | The King approved of this decision , and indeed Lord Stamfordham wrote a memorandum which revealed that the King had seen Balfour on 8 December and told him that , ‘ If Mr Baldwin wishes to resign , the King will refuse , on the grounds that he is still the head of the largest Party in the House of Commons and for every reason , constitutional and otherwise , it would be right and proper for the Government to meet Parliament and leave it to the representatives of the people to decide whether or not they will support the Government . ’ |
| 20 | So , I pull handfuls of weed and leave it near the water 's edge , giving at least some of the creatures the chance to nip back into the water again . |
| 21 | His concern was solely with effectiveness rather than style ; he rarely spoke with more than brief notes and left it to the occasion to furnish the words . |
| 22 | The right thing is for the two counties to get together and to make a joint decision and , if necessary , to have a public inquiry or to leave it to the Minister to call the scheme in if he is not satisfied . |
| 23 | SOMEONE broke into a garden shed in Wooteys Way , Alton on Monday night , removed a lawn-mower and left it in the middle of the lawn . |
| 24 | The assistant recorder refused to quash the two counts and left them to the jury on the basis that the services that the appellant did provide , in the ordinary meaning of the words , amounted to employment . |
| 25 | To function properly all these facets have to be in tune with each other , yet modern medicine has pulled us to pieces and left us like a dismantled Meccano . |
| 26 | Shoppers fled after a man carried the device into the post office in Castle Street and left it on the counter . |
| 27 | ‘ They trussed me up in a skip and left me under the showers . |
| 28 | I take messages and leave them in a dead letter box . |
| 29 | Put the containers in a warm place and leave them for a week . |
| 30 | Perhaps I should mention now I mean I I I 'm not fill in questionnaire 's but it would it would be helpful if you actually did erm fill in that before you actually leave this evening and leave it on the on the table on the way out if that 's possible I think that , that information which you put on them would be useful . |