Example sentences of "leave [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | just enough to leave me with a strange sense |
| 2 | But I suspect a lot of you would want to leave them with a matt finish , it 's entirely up to you Anyway when you paint , like I say , it 's just it 's because it 's porous it sucks the colour off the brush and er it immediately dries , so you can see , straight away , the colour it 's gon na be when you then put the varnish on you use a sort of matt varnish and so it brings the colour up but it wo n't be shiny or a shine , which you 're gon na choose like you might wan na matt varnish with this and shiny for the shell which ca it really brings the colour up , we wo n't get round to varnishing today erm and the other thing you can do , if you want erm a sort of a mottled effect you do pink in a base colour say Mikila wanted all greeny , bluey colours on that |
| 3 | Those responsible for initial teacher training , for example , were apparently relieved that the Polytechnic , upon its merger with the Lady Spencer Churchill College of Education in 1975 , was not intending to leave them as a monotechnic island in the interdisciplinary sea of the Polytechnic , particularly when it remained possible ( as confirmed by subsequent experience elsewhere ) that isolation would mean a low ranking in whatever prioritization exercises the Polytechnic might be forced to undertake . |
| 4 | I do not therefore mind leaving these matters in the safe hands of the Germans , just as many nations before 1914 were content to leave them in the safe hands of the British . |
| 5 | As I am drawing to a close , as I can find no further connections or criticisms of these two books however obvious or unobvious they may be , I would like to leave you with an appropriate quote from one of my books . |
| 6 | When he and Johnson got back to their inn , Boswell ‘ begged permission to leave him for a little while , that I might run about and pay some short visits to several good people of Inverness ’ . |
| 7 | Of course the Palace ca n't afford to leave her as a loose cannon . |
| 8 | Elfyn Llwyd , Plaid Cymru MP for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy , protested : ‘ To leave it to a mayoral fund is pathetic . ’ |
| 9 | To leave it to a free vote of the House might be taken as an indication that the Government had not made up its mind and would be an invitation to the House of Lords to delete from the Bill the clause abolishing the death penalty . |
| 10 | Well WE 'RE not … were going to leave it to the strong men … something different too … the first ever weightlifting world cup for the disabled . |
| 11 | To leave it to the transforming imagination . |
| 12 | There is still a feeling , and rightly so , that every firm owes some responsibility to its members and their dependants in this respect and that it is not enough to leave it to the individual partner to make his own arrangements . |
| 13 | Would you leave him/her with a complete stranger ? |
| 14 | RAIL commuters have protested at timetable changes they claim will leave them with a long wait or walk . |
| 15 | Even if we were to obtain substantial concessions and eliminate all our strategic nuclear weapons , we could not eliminate all theirs , so we would merely leave them with a residual capability which would be overwhelming and a continual menace to ourselves . |
| 16 | Your attitude of reserved dignity will not be resented ; when all arrangements have been completed , the client 's contact will leave them with the respectful regard for your integrity . |
| 17 | Do n't leave them in a warm care for three or four hours . |
| 18 | After his energetic verse Cade 's prose shows that medium at its most laboured and puffy : ‘ Has my sword therefore broke through London gates , that you should leave me at the white Hart in Southwark ? ’ |
| 19 | So you 're gon na leave me with the dear stool then are you ? |
| 20 | This month , I 'll leave you with a super-hairy Steve Vai guitar lick , broken down into rhythmic notation : ie. no notes . |
| 21 | Even if you do n't normally wear make-up , you will probably need some on your wedding day as white or even ivory reflects on the skin and could leave you with a washed-out look . |
| 22 | I can leave you with an easy mind . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Well , Doctor , ’ said Julie , ‘ I 'll leave you to the tender mercies of these ladies . ’ |
| 24 | So brace yourself for events which may seem puzzling at times , but which will eventually straighten themselves out , although they may leave you in an exhausted state . |
| 25 | As she is only three you will need a lot of patience and persistence to get the message across , but do keep trying , otherwise her bossiness could leave her on the wrong side of the fence from her friends . |
| 26 | Costs were high because injuries to a male can easily be crippling or fatal , whereas serious injuries to his companion can leave him without an essential partner in combating rival coalitions . |
| 27 | I 'll leave it to the young men , like yourself . |
| 28 | Sometimes one school will have a set policy and even a policy statement on homework while another will leave it to the individual whim of the teacher . |
| 29 | Nor on present evidence can you leave it to the internecine politics of the county councils around London , with occasional injections of national politics . |
| 30 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |