Example sentences of "do [adv] leave " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd have done better to leave him alone . ’ |
| 2 | The advice from police is : If you have valuables do n't leave them in the car . |
| 3 | It is bad business to ignore the older consumer , and doing so leaves everyone the poorer . |
| 4 | Liverpool continued to power forward , but in doing so left too much room at the back — a foolish thing to do when they know just how Beardsley can exploit space . |
| 5 | If you are not sure of what you are doing then leave alone to entrust to someone who does as ‘ mixing ’ brake components can have dire consequences . |
| 6 | We were the second crew on the scene and we did not leave the crash site all day . ’ |
| 7 | He noted that the last MPs did not leave Grenada until 18 months after the 1983 invasion . |
| 8 | If the electron did not leave behind enough energy to give the neutrino its mass , then that extra type of decay involving fat neutrinos would not happen . |
| 9 | ‘ She did not leave them to me , so nobody shall have them . ’ |
| 10 | Conversely , when Woosnam was taken ill so badly during the Johnnie Walker tournament in Bangkok earlier this year that on completion of his round he had to be rushed to hospital suffering from dehydration , he did not leave until he had first dealt with the hovering group of reporters . |
| 11 | To ensure he did not leave before the police came — some 20 minutes after being called — I was able to block the lane by sitting in a garden chair . |
| 12 | Appalled by the loss of his native town , Garibaldi left the army of Piedmont , but did not leave behind the cause of unification , sailing to Sicily with his famous ‘ Thousand ’ . |
| 13 | Most grandparents known only through visiting did not leave a strong emotional mark . |
| 14 | In fact , too , he was still in London when Sea Change was first given there on 28 September ; the other company did not leave until five days after that . |
| 15 | Their campaign , while never likely to overhaul the incumbent , was affected by the withdrawal of Richard Denton-White — the new candidate was only chosen in February and this , the party felt , did not leave her enough time to build up a significant level of ‘ voter-familiarity ’ . |
| 16 | We would need to do this anyway because one ought to have one 's ideas in some kind of order , even if the rough convergence that we have did not leave plenty of clashes remaining which , of course , it does . |
| 17 | The Prime Minister told the Head of the Civil Service ( who was still nominally in charge of the Cabinet Office , too , to avoid a conflict of status between Brook and General Sir Hastings Ismay , who had been Military Secretary to the Cabinet throughout the war and did not leave Whitehall till 1947 ) what he wanted as the ingredients of reform : |
| 18 | From each standard the rays of twenty powerful lamps were thrown across the pitch at different angles , and as they intersected and spread they did not leave a dark or even a dull patch … |
| 19 | Our connection for the prison camp did not leave until 11 o'clock and the Feldwebel was wondering what to do for the next two hours when the air raid siren blew . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She did not leave the hospital without the cello she played in a London symphony orchestra . |
| 22 | Terry Long joined Crystal Palace on 12 May 1955 from Wycombe Wanderers — and did not leave until the autumn of 1973 , some 18 years later . |
| 23 | We travelled back and forth between England and India until I was seven when , because of the First World War , we did not leave India for five idyllic years from 1915 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | James had to take what comfort he could from such events , for with the failure of ‘ The Fifteen ’ his prestige in Europe had been greatly diminished , and the Duke of Orleans even threatened to arrest him if he did not leave France . |
| 26 | Its show combined adventure , innovation and fun with the important wearability factor , and only the blinkered did not leave impressed . |
| 27 | Mr Bérégovoy did not leave a suicide note , so his true motives remain unknown . |
| 28 | Leaders of the Vlaams Blok say they approve of the exhibition , for Jordaens did not leave Flanders to work abroad , as did Rubens and Van Dyck . |
| 29 | Under the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 , only married women and widows already exercising their option to rely on their husbands ' contribution could continue to do so , provided they did not leave the labour market for two or more years . |
| 30 | He did not leave London until 25 August , and he was back in Paris by 18 September for the only attempt which he ever made , as head of government , to negotiate direct with a foreign statesman . |