Example sentences of "leave him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This world would not leave him alone , it seemed . |
| 32 | I must leave him alone with Enid at the gate . |
| 33 | Sometimes he had to admit , he wished they would just leave him alone and let him live out this petty , pointless . |
| 34 | " I said why do n't you leave him alone . " |
| 35 | One fellow even bought Albie a pint because he said his wife might leave him alone now she knew there was somebody more miserable than him . |
| 36 | At night see he ca n't leave him alone he sits there and he goes or something like that and jumps on him and gives him a I ca n't keep my hands off that dog ! |
| 37 | Oh you have to , oh you ca n't leave him alone one second . |
| 38 | I ca n't just leave him high and dry either . |
| 39 | It will leave him heir-apparent to the Lonrho empire . |
| 40 | His back and neck injuries , for instance , have left him three-quarters of an inch shorter than he was at 21 . |
| 41 | He had not been able to deal so skilfully with his own wife , however , that relationship needing more of himself than he could spare from the animals , and she had left him many years ago . |
| 42 | The snare had left him weak and overwrought . |
| 43 | The journey from Philadelphia was a fraught one , Boyd says , principally because Johnson — an uncompromisingly direct ladies ' man whose prolonged career as a plongeur had left him unused to the excitements of the open road — offered robust salutations to every woman pedestrian they passed en route . |
| 44 | The road accident that had left him lame had also worn him down . |
| 45 | Hans had never really recovered from a near fatal case of tuberculosis as a child which had subsequently left him susceptible to infection . |
| 46 | He had left him asleep in the cottage , an act of merry . |
| 47 | One which would have left him rich and me in possession of Sleet . |
| 48 | The abortive kidnapping had left him drained — too exhausted even to contemplate the consequences of his failure . |
| 49 | He had woken from his brief sleep , emerging out of nightmares that had left him drained and sickened . |
| 50 | He reappeared in the following year 's repeat win over Aberavon , but by the time Swansea were beaten in 1976 his knee had left him idle again . |
| 51 | He says his pay-off has left him comfortable , although he will eventually want to find a new career , possibly even returning to journalism . |
| 52 | Sylvie had left him these two . |
| 53 | The last minute had left him naked in a desert of infinite horror . |
| 54 | Enforced bachelorhood had left him unkempt and ill-groomed . |
| 55 | But the accusations of shoplifting completely devastated the player and his family and have left him bitter about the way Scottish newspapers pursue the private lives of football 's master race . |
| 56 | Yet not only had she not said anything but as far as he 'd been able to ascertain she had n't left him any lunch . |
| 57 | The illness and its treatment had left him bald and so weak that he could hardly stand , but throughout the spring and summer he gradually regained his fitness . |
| 58 | Whereas for the other his faulty picture may go back to badly tangled family relationships which have left him unable to see any authority as good or loving . |
| 59 | The truth was , Froebe 's almost entirely military life had left him unable to cope with anyone who was n't either a bloodthirsty volunteer , or a conscript to be whipped into shape . |
| 60 | His father had left him 20 acres called ‘ Margarettes Stacyes land ’ in North Marston which , with common rights added , must have been equivalent to something like 30 . |