Example sentences of "leave the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Leave the parents to me ; I 'll do any necessary explaining , ’ said Jennifer , then paused as a loudspeaker announcement suddenly echoed across the field .
2 No , but all they do , they leave the orange in the skin .
3 Once you leave the bosom of Mother India , she points out , you always find a disturbing ignorance as to the proper preparation of dal and rice as well as an infuriating lack of gurdwaras in which to say your morning prayers .
4 I whispered feverishly , glancing up to see Father 's shadow leave the wall on the floor above .
5 Leave the village along the road going north .
6 He joked : ‘ In England , if you were sent to a rugby league match at Batley on a night you had to park your car on the touch line and leave the headlights on and hope the players would run into the beam of light so you could get a picture .
7 We can conveniently neglect the question of what happens to all the assertive little boys and cooperative little girls when they leave the arena of childhood play and enter the adult world .
8 ‘ Bryn Pritchard can collect it after I leave the keys with him . ’
9 leave the keys in the car door last night ?
10 ‘ Please , Ray , ’ said Dorothy , ‘ leave the mess to Agnes and me .
11 They leave the skin on ?
12 If they are unavailable , leave the message on their chair .
13 Leave the brush in the oil for several hours , or longer , and then remove it and squeeze out the oil and work the brush backwards and forwards over plain brown paper or the side of a clean carton .
14 Leave the dough in a warm place to rise for a further 20min , then brush with melted butter and place in the oven .
15 Leave the dough in a warm place to rise for 30 minutes .
16 If preparing this in advance of the party , leave the dip in a bowl in the refrigerator .
17 Indeed it has been seen in ( 212 ) above that allow can even evoke the existence of permission as a present state and leave the realization of the action permitted in the hypothetical future .
18 To prevent such financial losses being made on the payment of relocation allowances , some employers make relocation payments in the form of a loan , which employees have to repay if they leave the organisation within a fixed number of years ( often one or two years ) of the date of the move .
19 When you have reached the lees , leave the pot on the table with the lid overturned or tilted to one side .
20 Leave the pot in a warm , dark place for a few weeks — the airing cupboard is best .
21 Take as little as possible with you in the Lecfile and leave the Shelfolds in your room .
22 No , leave the cheese on your plate just now .
23 Blanche asked if she had seen Jim Lancaster leave the boardroom at any time .
24 Flocks leave the roost in waves .
25 One solution put forward this time was to abandon the building remove the roof and leave the church as a ruin .
26 You may come there by the alley from the town wall , and leave the church on your right .
27 Even the grocery man would go in , leave the goods on the table , take his money and leave the change .
28 Just leave the talking to me .
29 There is enough to worry about already without having to worry about the feet so , as in the short board carve gybe , leave the feet in the straps until after the rig change .
30 ‘ Maybe I leave the top off the toothpaste ! ’
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