Example sentences of "leave him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Welshman Ian Woosnam only managed a second round 70 to leave him nine shots behind price on 141 after the two rounds . |
| 2 | ‘ HARLEY HOT IN PURSUIT OF COOL SWEDE ’ read the headline , and the first sentence ran : ‘ Brian Harley , the golfer who was on the scrapheap a year ago , continued his early season bid for glory yesterday with a brave round of sixty-eight to leave him one shot behind the cold-eyed Swedish ace , Bjorn Carlssen . ’ |
| 3 | He was not an easy guest ; he arrived in an obvious abstraction of wretchedness and his grandmother , being aware of his growing tendency to argue with the family 's general insistence that out-door exercise was good for whatever ailed one , at first decided to leave him alone to recover . |
| 4 | Our customers were mostly quiet , farming people ; the captain frightened them and they soon learned to leave him alone . |
| 5 | Memet , however , was somewhat out of their experience , and they were wise enough to leave him alone . |
| 6 | ‘ He wants you to leave him alone . ’ |
| 7 | Soon Gabrielle learned to leave him alone in his despair , and he spent more time playing darts and billiards at a Battersea pub . |
| 8 | ‘ When he was in a reflective or depressive mood , you knew to leave him alone although his manners were such that if anyone came to him to talk , he would stand up to talk to them . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 'd have done better to leave him alone . ’ |
| 10 | You should n't do this , this is unfair reporting why ca n't you realize to leave him alone mate . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Such colour as there was in Tutilo 's weary face slowly drained away to leave him grey and mute . |
| 13 | Deeply suspicious of his motives , she treated him with all the most obvious display of distrust of which she was capable , but her efforts seemed to leave him cold , so she decided there was only one course left open to her . |
| 14 | He felt it would leave him little time for his writing for one thing . |
| 15 | That would leave him little time to blend in with his new team-mates before they take on Luxembourg 's Spora in the opening round of the UEFA Cup . |
| 16 | Often she would leave him unkissed at the Rectory gate and forget to wave when she went inside the house . |
| 17 | The reason why a release to one debtor releases all jointly liable is , because , unless it was held to do so , the co-debtor , after paying the debt , might sue him who was released for contribution , and so in effect he would not be released ; but that reason does not apply where the debtor released agrees to such a qualification of the release as will leave him liable to any rights of the co-debtor . |
| 18 | He was a strange , rather lonely man with a lonely job that was highly pressured and did n't leave him any time to make friends or indulge in theatre gossip . |
| 19 | She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead . |
| 20 | His fits , which happened mainly in the evening or at night , would leave him disorientated and make his balance poor again . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Can you ever remember your husband asking you to go out and leave him alone with anyone ? ’ |
| 23 | They wo n't leave him alone . |
| 24 | Perhaps the child that he was when these events had occurred , had wished the adults would go away and leave him alone . |
| 25 | But they would not leave him alone . |
| 26 | John and Joan Waters had hoped that , once they realised that Derek had the support of other members of his family , they would leave him alone . |
| 27 | There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down . |
| 28 | Now he just wished she would leave him alone . |
| 29 | I knew I must leave him alone . |
| 30 | We 'll leave him alone tonight . ’ |