Example sentences of "leave them [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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
2 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 .
3 Please do n't leave them to the last minute .
4 Please do n't leave them to the last minute .
5 Please do n't leave them to the last minute .
6 Please do n't leave them to the last minute .
7 Please do n't leave them to the last minute .
8 RAIL commuters have protested at timetable changes they claim will leave them with a long wait or walk .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 ( 4 ) You may use the premises for the sole purpose of … ( 5 ) You will keep the premises clean and tidy and will leave them in no worse condition than that in which they are at the date of this letter and free from rubbish .
12 Do n't leave them in a warm care for three or four hours .
13 That would leave them in a worse position than they began , because all the T'ang can offer them is money .
14 I 'll call you a Pakistani , they wear three t-shirts , I said do you go to bed in them and then just leave them on the next morning put your school shirt on top ?
15 I take messages and leave them in a dead letter box .
16 It 's left them with a 5-year nightmare .
17 As described earlier , they include those who lack other supportive relationships , or whose previous relationship with the deceased has left them with an overwhelming sense of guilt , leading to self-punitive grief .
18 But then City , who have not won a League match at Old Trafford since condemning United to relegation in 1973 , reverted to the sort of form that has left them without an away win since November .
19 It 's left them at a loose end at home .
20 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 .
21 Dick wrote : " He has a happy personality and puts people at their ease , leaving them with a pleasant impression
22 She had found a retired garda sergeant and his wife , whose family had grown and scattered , leaving them with a large house and room to spare .
23 He went out , leaving them in a bitter silence .
24 It makes sense , therefore , if you are going to be a hero and dig a plot two spits deep , to know whether to ‘ double dig ’ ( reverse the spits ) or to ‘ bastard trench ’ ( leaving them in the same position ) .
25 Instead of the sunset raging a fire in them as Fernando had obviously intended , it had had the reverse effect — doused away a good deal of bitterness and left them with a certain sadness .
26 193 for the fourth wicket , with Lamb equalling Colin Cowdrey 's record of six Test centuries against West Indies , ensured a reasonable score , and 358 all out left them with a fair chance of saving the match .
27 After their winning match against Crewe Alexandra , the Shots polished performance improved their league position by four places , and left them with an outside chance of going up into Division III .
28 The anxiety about case loads was accompanied by a concern over the provision of ‘ cover ’ together with some concern about the isolation of the development officer 's position , which did not fit into any overall management structure at Age Concern England and left them without a full-time support , supervision and management back-up service .
29 He left them in a panelled solar beyond the hall , and went to inform his master that he had unexpected guests ; and no more than five minutes later the door of the room opened upon the lord of half Leicestershire , a good slice of Warwickshire and Northampton , and a large honour in Normandy brought to him by his marriage with the heiress of Breteuil .
30 ‘ Why do you think your father left them in the first place ? ’
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