Example sentences of "[vb -s] [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 | That twice this term she 's had to leave the classroom because she was sick ? ’ |