Example sentences of "leave [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | To leave it to the transforming imagination . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? ’ |
| 7 | So you 're gon na leave me with the dear stool then are you ? |
| 8 | ‘ Well , Doctor , ’ said Julie , ‘ I 'll leave you to the tender mercies of these ladies . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'll leave it to the young men , like yourself . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Nor on present evidence can you leave it to the internecine politics of the county councils around London , with occasional injections of national politics . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | In the meanwhile , if we 're going to use the B/R grant pretty soon , can I just leave it in the current account ? |
| 15 | I 'll leave it in the other room for you . |
| 16 | However , this does leave us with the unanswered question of the extent to which schools reflect social practices and the extent to which they shape them . |
| 17 | Odd-Knut — whose English was good enough to know that he did not want us to call him ‘ Odd ’ — suggested that he could leave us near the Finnish border and we could ski or walk the last bit . |
| 18 | The leaders of the main parties and the Darlington candidates have left me with the following impressions . |
| 19 | And it came to him , with a cold steely horror chilling the bloodstream as if from a lethal injection — he had left them in the stolen mini . |
| 20 | ‘ Would you have preferred I leave you to the tender mercies of your American admirer ? ’ |
| 21 | Other States , in the interests of speed , leave it to the competent authority to return the documents , or to inform the requesting authority that the Letter of Request has not been executed . |
| 22 | The council may then recommend one name for approval to a general meeting of the association , or it may put forward more than one name and leave it to the general meeting to decide . |
| 23 | However , the Government leave it to the financial operations of others , and meanwhile the economy is run on the basis that one might be able to regulate but not to promote . |
| 24 | If we leave it to the following week of the November , you 've got , there 's ice coming up . |
| 25 | ‘ The onus is on line managers to develop the people who report to them and not leave it to the human resources professional , or anybody else . |
| 26 | Within a few months of its publication the government had launched a huge inquiry into pensions which was to produce a series of changes — including the right of employees changing jobs to either take a pension with them , or leave it with the previous employer and have it uprated in line with the retail price index up to a maximum of 5 per cent . |
| 27 | And you had best be grateful to me , for if you had left it to the little men of law he could buy better and shiftier than you , and you would never have got your money at all . ’ |
| 28 | Apart from the light from Craig 's torch , still propped where he had left it against the main power conduits , the chamber was dark and empty . |
| 29 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |
| 30 | Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined . |