Example sentences of "[verb] to leave [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Sanding floors : Where old floorboards are very uneven , or you want to leave them exposed and they are badly stained and marked , hire a floor sanding machine . |
2 | Then , obviously wanting to leave us alone , our friend said that he had to go to the village of Lalatta for a short time ; he would be back in twenty minutes , by which time I would have to start making my way back to Lagrimone . |
3 | After that , the memory faded but lay there , in the back of her mind , refusing to leave her alone . |
4 | He was not an easy guest ; he arrived in an obvious abstraction of wretchedness and his grandmother , being aware of his growing tendency to argue with the family 's general insistence that out-door exercise was good for whatever ailed one , at first decided to leave him alone to recover . |
5 | " You certainly gave him your version of how your aunt came to leave me this property , " Matthew said bitterly . |
6 | Deeply suspicious of his motives , she treated him with all the most obvious display of distrust of which she was capable , but her efforts seemed to leave him cold , so she decided there was only one course left open to her . |
7 | Tomorrow , when I have to tell them how close the Whistler is getting , I may not like to leave them alone after dark . |
8 | You should n't do this , this is unfair reporting why ca n't you realize to leave him alone mate . |
9 | In fact the contemplation of a Roman brick seems to leave me cold — quite cold . |
10 | We decided to leave it all before the Lord and relax , and we planned a visit down to the base in June . |
11 | Why did you have to leave me all alone down here ? ’ |
12 | And then adding all these up , well there 's none of them that add up that we can just add in to any of the others , so we 'll have to leave them all like that , so the answer is just a , a thousand , plus a hundred Y plus ten X , plus X Y. Now if we wanted to multiply , let's say we want to multiply a hundred and three by seventeen , that just means that X is seven , sorry X is three and Y is seven . |
13 | ‘ If that 's the way you take it , ’ Arty said , ‘ I 'll just have to leave it all to the ould fellow . ’ |
14 | I try to leave it one day , a believe me , it 's no more than you 'd die , like . |
15 | ‘ When he was in a reflective or depressive mood , you knew to leave him alone although his manners were such that if anyone came to him to talk , he would stand up to talk to them . ’ |
16 | As Robyn Penrose is winding up her lecture , and Vic Wilcox is commencing his tour of the machine shop , Philip Swallow returns from a rather tiresome meeting of the Arts Faculty Postgraduate Studies Committee ( which wrangled for two hours about the proposed revision of a clause in the PhD regulations and then voted to leave it unchanged , an expenditure of time that seemed all the more vain since there are scarcely any new candidates for the PhD in arts subjects anyway these days ) to find a rather disturbing message from the Vice-Chancellor 's office . |
17 | Our customers were mostly quiet , farming people ; the captain frightened them and they soon learned to leave him alone . |
18 | Soon Gabrielle learned to leave him alone in his despair , and he spent more time playing darts and billiards at a Battersea pub . |
19 | By night he kept himself from the usual evenings with Henry and Betty , thinking to leave them some space for a time , and he would often take a sleeping pill at eight , before dinner , because sleep had grown difficult . |
20 | Kathy Rooney had to leave me one night when we were dining at the Kensington Hilton , so she took me to the porter to arrange for him to take me upstairs to my room when I was ready . |
21 | ‘ Monsieur Tollet at the sports centre had to leave me several times to deal with queries . ’ |
22 | Had to leave it all behind t other side , d you see ? |
23 | It was why I had to leave you this morning . ’ |
24 | He never decides to leave me one thing . |
25 | I have been advised to leave it alone and see if it gets better . |
26 | We need to leave them some to swim in before we catch them . |