Example sentences of "[pers pn] to leave [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your neighbour really likes the tree and wants to know how much it would take to compensate you to leave the tree at its current size . |
| 2 | ‘ General Fakrid , I can not allow you to leave the command vehicle , ’ he stuttered reluctantly . |
| 3 | I would like you to leave the light on . ’ |
| 4 | If you do live in the same house as your landlord and he or she wants you to leave the property then he or she must still give you at least four weeks Notice to Quit on a special form . |
| 5 | " I think lad , " Dan Brady said seriously , " it 's time for you to leave the house . |
| 6 | I 've also asked them to leave a Beretta there for you . |
| 7 | The four soldiers , who are now all stationed in Germany but were then in Bordon , each said in evidence that it was this incident which had persuaded them to leave the pub . |
| 8 | On the other hand , two other cases involving individuals seeking asylum in foreign embassies were resolved by the authorities allowing them to leave the country . |
| 9 | ‘ He told them to leave the house immediately and it would appear that they did not take him seriously but laughed when he said this . |
| 10 | This nest set up on the flat lands beyond the power stations on the south east coast will provide the evidence to Bill and his bird watching colleagues It 's not only the owls that fly at night , waders will feed at any time , but the rising tide will force them to leave the mud flats day or night |
| 11 | Did you honestly expect me to leave a job half done ? |
| 12 | There he was , trying to blackmail me to leave the company or face a false charge of fraud , and I knew so much about his underhand behaviour . |
| 13 | He really wanted me to leave the Order earlier , but I said I had to go on helping . |
| 14 | I said I 'm going back now do you want me to leave the kitchen light on ? |
| 15 | He wanted me to leave the deck , that was clear , but why ? |
| 16 | We further agreed that we would make no promises and twist no arms , and having decided on this general strategy , my friends urged me to leave the campaign to them . |
| 17 | He told me to leave the track . |
| 18 | Politely he asked him to leave a quote so he could discuss it with his wife . |
| 19 | When the young King was dying , probably of tuberculosis , the protector , Northumberland , persuaded him to leave the throne in his Will to his Protestant cousin Lady Jane Grey , Northumberland 's daughter-in-law , instead of to his Catholic half-sister Mary , as prescribed in the Act of Succession of Henry VIII 's reign . |
| 20 | He knew the Headmaster would not allow him to leave the school , not even in his good mood . |
| 21 | He thought that he had heard the house door close : McAllister must have left for a stroll , or perhaps even a visit up West , and it would be safe for him to leave the surgery where he had been reading Mr H. G. Wells 's scientific romance The Time Machine , and return to the comfort of his armchair . |
| 22 | Election Comment : Never forget the damage Labour did Ambrose Evans-Pritchard recalls the chaos of the 1970s that led him to leave the country |
| 23 | Mary was outraged by these measures , and resisted Pole 's recall by forbidding him to leave the country , and refusing to receive either the papal nuncio bearing the letters of revocation or any replacement for the cardinal . |
| 24 | The Foreign Ministry announced on March 28 , 1990 , that it had accused a member of the Soviet trade mission of industrial espionage and had ordered him to leave the country . |
| 25 | Trovoada , a 54-year-old lawyer ( whose name was previously given as Trouvoada ) , served as Prime Minister from 1975 to 1979 , but was imprisoned for 21 months after a quarrel with Pinto da Costa , who subsequently allowed him to leave the country in 1981 . |
| 26 | The ambassadors of Canada , France , the United States and Venezuela then successfully intervened and persuaded the coup leaders not to kill Aristide but to allow him to leave the country , in order to prevent widespread bloodshed . |
| 27 | He had been an army officer once and there had been trouble that caused him to leave the army . |
| 28 | In 1914 ill health forced him to leave the railway works , and he took up market gardening . |
| 29 | He was ordained deacon in 1870 , and priest in 1872 , but in his first curacy he fell foul of both his vicar and his bishop for his heterodox beliefs ; the former asked him to leave the parish and the latter delayed his ordination . |
| 30 | Another may come along for advice and you 'd tell him to leave the horse alone : ‘ But he looks all right ! |