Example sentences of "not leave him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He , previously so detached , was now begging her not to leave him . |
| 2 | Matey had gone out , not to return until late at night , leaving Dr Neil 's tea in the larder on a plate carefully positioned under a fine gauze hood to protect it from the ubiquitous flies ; he had said not to leave him supper , for he might visit the local evening market where prepared food of all kinds was on sale , from oysters to whelks ; he was partial to shellfish , he said . |
| 3 | He was scared and shaking and was begging Mr Davies not to leave him . |
| 4 | He talked about being scared , started shaking and then begged Mr Davies not to leave him . |
| 5 | The worst of being in a job which the world regarded as not the right place for him was that the world would not leave him alone . |
| 6 | At Bethel , the place of the vision of the stairway to heaven , God promised him that he would be with him , that he would keep him wherever he went , that he would bring him back to the Land , and would not leave him . |
| 7 | Ironically , Gallacher 's capacity for tragedy did not leave him for long ; at the end of the game he was told his sister-in-law had died in Scotland , and as the tartan army led a ragtime jazz-band through the streets of London , Hughie Gallacher was on his way to the funeral . |
| 8 | The sense of urgency , of anger , of relentless pursuit , did not leave him but he felt once more the bitterness of inadequacy , the realisation that the task he had undertaken was beyond his personal power . |
| 9 | But they would not leave him alone . |
| 10 | But the image of Dinah would not leave him , and was strengthened by the times he visited the theatre and saw her in the flesh . |
| 11 | He 's mad , he 's mad , Ruth thought ; but she dared not leave him . |
| 12 | She would not , could not leave him for this boy ! |
| 13 | He recalled he had suffered a terrible nightmare ; so vivid that even when his eyes were open and he was screaming for his mammy , the nightmare would not leave him . |
| 14 | I could not leave him now . |
| 15 | This world would not leave him alone , it seemed . |
| 16 | Their nerve was a match for his ; they had most of them served him several years , for his men did not leave him . |
| 17 | He had not , however , lost sight of the Church 's Christian mission to evangelize and declare the faith and his early pre-occupation with pastoral duties and the care of souls did not leave him . |
| 18 | Ooh better not leave him in the kitchen or the dogs 'll eat him |
| 19 | Everyone said that if his daughter had not left him , she could have saved him . |
| 20 | He was thirty-six years old and not yet married , mainly because his trips to Africa — where most of his work had been done — had not left him much time to find a suitable wife , though others in similar positions seemed to have achieved wives and marriages , whether suitable or not . |
| 21 | The experience of war had not left him . |
| 22 | I was terrified — both of leaving him and also of not leaving him , in order to go for help . |
| 23 | ‘ If what you say is true , I 'm not leaving him to drown , ’ she said defensively as Fen looked as though he might object . |
| 24 | Dostoevsky 's own attempt to suggest how he disposes his reader in relation to these events goes as follows : ‘ Narration by the author , a sort of invisible but omniscient being who nevertheless does n't leave him [ meaning ‘ his hero'$ for a moment … |
| 25 | ‘ You ca n't leave him up there all on his own . ’ |
| 26 | Paralysed in its grip , she kept telling herself , over and over again , that she must n't leave him to drown : whatever Bella had said to her , however much she herself hated him , there was no point in pretending to herself that she could abandon anyone , not even him , to die . |
| 27 | They wo n't leave him alone . |
| 28 | ‘ You ca n't leave him in the dark like that , ’ Tina exploded indignantly . |
| 29 | He was right , but she could n't leave him like this . |
| 30 | But I could n't leave him like that , his back and legs bare . |