Example sentences of "leave [pers pn] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Signorina , will you be all right if I leave you for a little while ? ’ |
| 4 | Your wife has left you for a continuous period of two years . |
| 5 | My first girlfriend left me for a new man . |
| 6 | you left me for a classical guitarist . |
| 7 | And as your career prospects have changed so dramatically in just a year , I 'd say your girlfriend was probably justified in feeling you left her for no good reason . |
| 8 | But , leaving her for a brief while , he went to instruct Ivo to drive her back to her hotel , and then escorted her out through the front door . |
| 9 | but then you left him for an American carpenter . |
| 10 | If it has the Zenith then , if you are leaving it for a long period , try pulling out the choke after it has stopped . |
| 11 | He left us for a glamorous Frenchwoman and he never even sent me a card in all that time . ’ |