Example sentences of "leave [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why did you have to leave me all alone down here ? ’ |
| 2 | " You certainly gave him your version of how your aunt came to leave me this property , " Matthew said bitterly . |
| 3 | ‘ Monsieur Tollet at the sports centre had to leave me several times to deal with queries . ’ |
| 4 | When we arrived … you ask me how I felt , sister … bad , I felt bad — to leave them all , everyone back in the village . |
| 5 | And then adding all these up , well there 's none of them that add up that we can just add in to any of the others , so we 'll have to leave them all like that , so the answer is just a , a thousand , plus a hundred Y plus ten X , plus X Y. Now if we wanted to multiply , let's say we want to multiply a hundred and three by seventeen , that just means that X is seven , sorry X is three and Y is seven . |
| 6 | By night he kept himself from the usual evenings with Henry and Betty , thinking to leave them some space for a time , and he would often take a sleeping pill at eight , before dinner , because sleep had grown difficult . |
| 7 | We need to leave them some to swim in before we catch them . |
| 8 | It was why I had to leave you this morning . ’ |
| 9 | They all had a wonderful time at Sergeant 's garden party , and when it came time to leave they all promised to visit again very , very soon . |
| 10 | When he had learnt that Miss Alicia Lockwood , whom he considered one of the most charming and fascinating old dears he had ever met , had been mad enough to leave him half her beautiful and fantastic house , for one wild and quixotic moment Matthew had thought of refusing the legacy . |
| 11 | He 's got a daughter from a previous relationship and he used to have her at weekends and he used to leave her all the time so he could go and play football and go out drinking . |
| 12 | But he was still haunted by the scene the girl had conjured up : the old man in that bright little kitchen with its ramshackle fittings and earthenware sink : holding her , kissing her lips and her hair ; then sitting at the table , questioning her , promising to leave her some money , and finally , as a parting shot , telling her casually that her father and her aunt had both been illegitimate … |
| 13 | ‘ If that 's the way you take it , ’ Arty said , ‘ I 'll just have to leave it all to the ould fellow . ’ |
| 14 | Had to leave it all behind t other side , d you see ? |
| 15 | We decided to leave it all before the Lord and relax , and we planned a visit down to the base in June . |
| 16 | Although how we were supposed to be able to afford to rebuild , I had no idea , but whenever I queried anything he would just laugh and tell me to leave it all to him . ’ |
| 17 | She had sort of expected him to leave it all to herself . |
| 18 | Seb had always had an instinct for whether or not something was likely to make money , but now he was required to record farm profit and expenditure for Christian it was not enough to leave it all to Carrie . |
| 19 | Mr. Justice Taylor 's report following his inquiry into the Hillsborough stadium disaster commented on the cost of policing and stated : ’ The temptation to the clubs to leave it all to the police is stronger if they are not required to make a realistic payment for police services . ’ |
| 20 | There can be no complete falling out , because too many Americans care too much about Israel to leave it all alone in a cold world . |
| 21 | Part of the moulding-power of the modern world is its ability to leave us all blasé . |
| 22 | She said they did everything in teams , for the honour , and what was the good of that , when she could leave them all standing with one arm tied behind her back ? |
| 23 | They were trying to wear him down , but they would fail ; he would find the Key , he would find the Way Out and escape from this joke , this awful solitary confinement for Heroes ; he would leave them all behind and take his rightful place in the greater reality again . |
| 24 | So they could n't leave them all standing outside . |
| 25 | But do n't leave them all out . |
| 26 | or you can leave them both till bedtime . |
| 27 | She could n't leave them any money because all she had was an annuity that would come to an end when she died , but Mister Johnny 's got a little bit that his parents left him and Hepzibah makes some from the poultry , so they should have just enough . |
| 28 | Other transaction processing monitor vendors — NCR Corp and Unix System Labs Inc — have also licensed parts of the Retix software , but are doing their own integration work , which will leave them some six months behind Transarc , says Retix . |
| 29 | Would n't leave me all through the following night as I worked on the glass . |
| 30 | ‘ How could he do this to me , how could he leave me all alone to manage , he promised me he would never leave me alone to cope by myself . ’ |