Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] leave [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |
| 2 | Ian came with us part of the way , so we took two cars and left ours at the finishing point and Ian 's at the entrance to the track . |
| 3 | Take it from the liquid , sprinkle it with oil , press it between two plates and leave it until the next day . |
| 4 | He took limes from his pyjama pockets and left them on the blankets . |
| 5 | Florence Ames took off her old shoes and left them on the step . |
| 6 | Any action on the part of a religious or other teacher which undermines an individual 's awareness of his personal and family duties and leaves him with the means to claim that a ‘ god ’ will relieve him of them , is an action which is utterly irresponsible . |
| 7 | His concern was solely with effectiveness rather than style ; he rarely spoke with more than brief notes and left it to the occasion to furnish the words . |
| 8 | The assistant recorder refused to quash the two counts and left them to the jury on the basis that the services that the appellant did provide , in the ordinary meaning of the words , amounted to employment . |
| 9 | We have closed our ears to his cries and left him in the shadows while we walked in the light . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Pounds , ’ I replied as I wrote out my name and address on the back of the particulars and left it on the counter . |
| 11 | He cleared the breakfast things and left him with the small addressed postcard that he had been provided with to write a message on for his mother . |
| 12 | Common usage has sifted these terms and left us with the most expressive . |
| 13 | ( Dr Kavanagh is inclined to scatter quotations and leave them to the imgination . ) |
| 14 | Nellie had packed the two children 's bags and left them at the door . |
| 15 | Despite the size of the factory , there were no nursery facilities and mothers were sometimes forced to bring in their young children and leave them in the cloakrooms all day . |
| 16 | He did not label the boxes to go to particular destinations but left it to the rail company to allot the appropriate number of boxes to the various destinations . |
| 17 | In her child 's understanding it seemed that it was her own liberation that was the cause of the celebration , and the arrival of the princess , the flags which appeared on all the buildings and the succession of functions for which her mother and Denzil put on their beautiful evening clothes and left her with the maid . |
| 18 | After this he was a little unlucky with injuries and left us at the end of 1935–36 , having served honourably and well . |