Example sentences of "leave [pron] [noun] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 … wanted Karen to leave her job at the factory ?
2 ONE of Scottish accountancy 's best-known names is to leave his firm at the end of September .
3 Then Drew decided to leave his job at the factory .
4 Mark took from Sophia the cyclostyled leaflet hardly a ‘ brochure ’ he felt — and read through the rules starting with ‘ Sex ( undoctored … = and Siamese cats can not be accepted ) ’ , going on to invite owners to bring bedding but ‘ no bowls , please ’ , and ending with the injunction ‘ This year we must ask you to leave your cat at the house and not go down to the Cattery .
5 It was hoped that , with more publicity , people would leave their cars at the village hall instead and walk .
6 ‘ Of course I 'll be joining you for Sunday tea , ’ he would say charmingly , then would purposely keep them waiting until , fretful and concerned , David would leave his place at the table to remind his stepfather , only to be told that they should : ‘ Start without me .
7 A four-wheel-drive vehicle will be an essential , of course , and my husband can leave his car at the top on the main road when snow is forecast .
8 Right , if you can leave your handset at the side , you can see that it matures after 75 seconds , brilliant .
9 Remember how nasty it was the last time you were sick ? ’ or ‘ Do n't leave your doll at the top of the stairs , because someone might trip over it and fall to the bottom .
10 It was the summer 1989 when I went down to the golf club with a friend and played around with him after that I borrowed his clubs quite regularly and practised eventually mum & Dad chipped in and I bought myself a set of clubs well to be exact I bought myself a bag of three iron and a putter during the next two years I had saved up and built up my set of clubs until I had a half set of irons and 2 woods during that time I had always left my clubs at the golf club to save me taking the clubs to the course every time I played .
11 After a long day sitting in the coach , I decided to get out at Millcote , leave my luggage at the hotel , and walk across the fields to Thornfield .
12 In the next generation , Odo and Robert followed suit , receiving Charles 's favour in the form of lands that in fact belonged to the church of Rheims ( the see 's continuing vacancy since Ebbo 's second departure in 841 had left its property at the king 's disposal ) .
13 Shortly before five o'clock the sepoy cavalry made an attack near the Cutcherry but fortunately the men had not yet left their positions at the rampart .
14 Mr Peters asks the highly relevant question : why do so many workers leave their talents at the factory gate ?
15 Mr Peters asks the highly relevant question : why do so many workers leave their talents at the factory gate ?
16 I was told that the manager had gone to lunch , and when I asked for him to be bleeped I was told again that he had gone to lunch and that he had left his bleep at the switchboard — all in a tone that suggested that this was standard behaviour .
17 Dutch museum director Rudi Fuchs , fifty , has left his post at the Gemeentemuseum , The Hague , to take on the directorship of the Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam .
18 P. H. One time I came on duty at Rose Hill and left my cape at the bottom of the stairs — on the banister .
19 ‘ I left my trunks at the house . ’
20 I left my sack at the top of Cairn Lochan and scrambled down to the foot of Savage Slit .
21 And then I left my brolly at the chemist 's , and had to go back for it … ’
22 I left my car at the motel .
23 That was the message Molly had received when she had come down the stairs and left her husband at the dinner table .
24 When they left their stalls at the end of Lauds , and approached the night stairs to return to their beds , a slight , habited figure arose from its knees to confront them , stepping into what light there was very gingerly , but with resigned resolution , like one expecting a bleak welcome , but braced to endure and survive it .
25 In Turner ( No. 2 ) the accused left his car at the victim 's garage for repair .
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