Example sentences of "leaves [pron] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their Citizen 's Charter spokesman Brian Wilson said : ‘ Ofwat 's failure to deal firmly with the greed of the privatised water companies leaves them with little credibility when alleging a need for huge further increases . |
| 2 | Right you should have that bugger back , that leaves me with four |
| 3 | I have discovered for example that the acute stress of being interviewed makes me sweat a lot , an afternoon of difficult telephone calls leaves me with lower back pain , while the run-down-at-the-end-of-a-long-hard-term kind of stress makes me irritable and forgetful . |
| 4 | He strokes it with care , removing a little fleck of dust from the scratchplate and leaves me with one of those great Suede quotes . |
| 5 | Leaves me with this . |
| 6 | At 30 , McEnroe is beginning to incline towards nostalgia , even though he leaves himself with little time to indulge in the luxury . |
| 7 | Sometimes a piece of outdoor clothing comes on the market and leaves you with such mixed feelings it 's hard to know where to start a review . |
| 8 | You 've got four plus numbers , you got two minus numbers which leaves you with two plus numbers . |
| 9 | The eye-level grill with captive locking device leaves you with both hands free to turn hot food safely . |
| 10 | D. B. Sweeney plays Doug Dorsey , a working class lad whose bright future in the National Hockey League is ended by a playing accident that leaves him with permanent eye damage . |
| 11 | Brought down to prose by Falstaff for a few lines of word-play , Hal leaves him with another line of verse , marking the difference of ethos between them . |
| 12 | This will not be enough , either , if by " syntax " we agree to mean mere syntactic cohesion ; by itself , this leaves us with simple facts about grouping and nothing more . |
| 13 | Some of the 15 year olds might well have been helping underground , but ignoring this , it leaves us with 174 adult underground workers . |
| 14 | That leaves us with three uncertainties . |
| 15 | My one reservation is that Mr Alexander denies himself expressive use of light and sound to convey atmosphere and leaves us with few memorable images . |
| 16 | John Betjeman leaves us with this vignette : |