Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] to leave the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it does not get its way , the Democratic Platform has threatened to leave the party , abandoning it to conservatives like Mr Yegor Ligachev , who has renewed his strident criticism of Mr Gorbachev . |
| 2 | Norway has threatened to leave the IWC , as Iceland has already done , if the commission opposes its plans to resume whaling . |
| 3 | Norway has threatened to leave the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) unless it is allowed to hunt minke whales in the north-east Atlantic and the six-year ban on commercial whaling is lifted . |
| 4 | Judy Robinson has decided to leave the Grey Horse , on Bank Top , as her rent will double from £13,000 to £25,000 a year under a new 20-year lease . |
| 5 | The Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy apologised to me earlier for the fact that he has had to leave the Chamber because he is due to make a speech on clean coal technology elsewhere in London . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a wicked shame that the poor old thing has got to leave the cottage she 's lived in most of her life , ’ continued Mrs. Grant . |
| 7 | So far the US , like the European Community , has preferred to leave the Central American leaders to work out their own solutions . |
| 8 | So far the US , like the European Community , has preferred to leave the Central American leaders to work out their own solutions . |
| 9 | But that 's only because he has learned to leave the jokes in the dressing room . |
| 10 | And here we learn something new , for though the sculptor has chosen to leave the left hand exposed he gives us an indication as to how shrouds were placed once the body had been encoffined : the right sleeve has been pulled down over its hands and gently tucked under the fingers . |
| 11 | I 'd decided to leave the ‘ coo' de grass until the morning when I would feel more up to it . |
| 12 | at Warwick Business School in September , having decided to leave the publishing industry after ten years . |
| 13 | If you had not so stupidly bade me keep quiet , I should have done the trick long since , and you would not have had to leave the place at all . |
| 14 | She decided the time had come to leave the bordello , and seek lodgings somewhere in the vicinity of the Pont du Sevres . |
| 15 | You know we 've decided to leave the car possibly . |
| 16 | A possible scenario is that he had turned to leave the church when he was attacked from behind . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It was later reported that the family had decided to leave the area . |
| 18 | Disused , ramshackle , and whistling with draughts , both its windows had been boarded up , and to obtain some light Denis had had to leave the door open after persuading Joshua Cohen in by pressing the gun firmly into the small of his back . |
| 19 | Repeatedly we are told that if its characters fail to resist the Shadow , they will be taken over , but if they do resist they may get killed ; similarly if they reject the vagaries of chance ( if Frodo for instance had refused to leave the Shire with the Ring ) , it 's likely something highly unpleasant will happen , but if they accept and obey things could grow even worse . |
| 20 | An unrevealed number of other salesmen had also gone , including David Basset , the one who had refused to leave the Redcar man without a sale . |
| 21 | He only hoped Jane had remembered to leave the window open — otherwise he was rightly stuck . |
| 22 | Inspired probably by the continuing ill-feeling towards himself , Gurney had attempted to leave the Grammar School by applying for the Mastership of Wellington College early in 1855 , but the Goldsmiths declined to supply a testimonial of his conduct until he had given up his post , and his application therefore lapsed . |
| 23 | Distressed relatives were soon telling the local press tales of how their depressed loved ones had managed to leave the unit just hours before their deaths . |
| 24 | Er some wo n't wear it at all erm erm have had to leave the Fire Service because of that . |
| 25 | In Brussels , European Community farm ministers have agreed to leave the milk production quotas of most member states unchanged for the next 12 months pending a review next month . |
| 26 | That twice this term she 's had to leave the classroom because she was sick ? ’ |
| 27 | Both in the Grand Slam game against England last season and in their recent match against Wales , French players have appeared to leave the field on a tactical basis rather than an injured basis . |