Example sentences of "leaves [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the wicket he is a Roman general , unquestioning of his own ability to defeat the barbarians ; yet because the pride and haughtiness are justified by having repeatedly proved himself to be the best , one can not resent them , especially since he usually leaves them on the field of combat . |
| 2 | She herself paints abstract designs on an L- or U-shaped canvas , and leaves them on the floor or wraps them round a pillar . |
| 3 | His room key and tag feel bulky in his pocket so he leaves them on the table with his newspaper before visiting the well assorted buffet table . |
| 4 | but it 's like you see , he gives them spellings and he puts perhaps three or four wrong in twenty and they 're supposed to come home and check 'em , meanwhile he leaves them on the board for a whole week , which I think I 've told you before |
| 5 | What people are frightened of is buying a property , finding the tenant goes bankrupt and leaves them with the running costs . ’ |
| 6 | but she leaves them with the neighbours or a neighbour , but I mean it 's all different to bringing them up yourself , in n it ? |
| 7 | He leaves them in the open pasture says Jesus , he leaves them in the wilderness and goes after the one which is lost until he finds it . |
| 8 | He leaves them in the open pasture says Jesus , he leaves them in the wilderness and goes after the one which is lost until he finds it . |
| 9 | He does n't bring them safely home and , you know , have them all securely ti er closed in for the night in safety and security , he leaves them in the wilderness . |
| 10 | oh , I 've forgotten , you know my brain leaves me at the most important time , do n't forget to post that will you ? |
| 11 | If I run a company badly , however , the market does not gradually transfer its management to someone else ; it leaves me with the monopoly of corporate control until , at the consummation of a take-over bid , it transfers it abruptly and completely ’ . |
| 12 | So I says only on one condition if your daddy pi leaves you at the door at school and picks you up |
| 13 | The All Blacks are searching for perfection on the pitch and the physical strength and skill of their forwards leaves you with the sense that they are not far from attaining that dream . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When he leaves her for the Gipsy and she dances . |
| 16 | Jones , an interesting newcomer with a simmering , highly charged air , is the daughter of an absentee Italian mother , which does not endear her to the xenophobic locals and an unemployed woodsman father , Seiriol Tomos , who disappears and leaves her in the care of his cold , embittered sister Maggie , Sue Jones-Davies giving everyone very beady looks . |
| 17 | That still leaves it with the human problem of what to do about its many customers , the sizeable backlog of orders they have created and the delays they face . |
| 18 | The path then continues straight , towards the pass and here a less distinct path leaves it to the right . |
| 19 | With open questions the researcher leaves it to the respondents as to how they word their answers . |
| 20 | One of the characteristics of judicial review is that the supervising court does not substitute its decision for that of the public authority ; rather it leaves it to the body to make good its illegal behaviour by making a fresh decision which complies with the requirements of the law . |
| 21 | While he believes in and requires effective administration , he leaves it to the experts , to the people who have a flair for making things happen through systems and computers , and paperwork . |
| 22 | If , in these cases , the creditor leaves it to the debtor to procure the third party to provide the security , it is , in my opinion , almost inconceivable that the approach referred to by Dixon J. would be adopted so as to enable the surety to repudiate liability . |
| 23 | The debtor is not , in general , the agent of the creditor whether or not the creditor leaves it to the debtor to procure the third party security . |
| 24 | A common example of this is where the creditor ‘ leaves it to the debtor ’ to get the surety 's signature to the guarantee . |
| 25 | ‘ Leaves it to the debtor ’ is an expression that occurs frequently in the authorities . |
| 26 | ( 3 ) Where the creditor leaves it to the debtor to obtain the signature of a third party surety on documents of guarantee or on documents charging the surety 's principal or important asset , it exposes itself to the possibility of being restrained under applicable equitable doctrines . |
| 27 | He leaves it to the local man : the local man , whose tremulous reliance on a few patented drugs Hamilton observes with a speechless sneer . |
| 28 | Thus in principle a directive is addressed to the Member State and not to the citizen ; it sets out an object which the Member State is to achieve and leaves it to the Member State to adopt the measures which it considers apt to accomplish that object . |
| 29 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 30 | The Directive prescribes that there should be criminal penalties for its breach , but leaves it to the implementing legislation in each member state to decide what these should be . |