Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [pers pn] leave " in BNC.
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1 | If they are knitting successfully I leave them alone ; if they do n't knit successfully I select them manually to the holding position ( with the holding levers set to knit ) to help them knit . |
2 | His sally at Descartes when he remarks that there has never been a complete sceptic goes to the heart of the issue and it was David Hume , arch sceptic , who wondered aloud why it was that his scepticism vanished whenever he left his study . |
3 | On the Last thursday , fryday & Saturday of this moneth , as follows : — The People of Kildaltan to work where they Left off Last year . " |
4 | On the Last thursday , fryday & Saturday of this moneth , as follows : — The People of Kildaltan to work where they Left off Last year . " |
5 | Do you know when she left on that trip she left behind a list of about 28 things I was to do . |
6 | I do n't know why they left me there alive . ’ |
7 | Simon do n't know why she left . |
8 | I do n't know why I left , but on a sunny morning I decided to brave Bolivia . |
9 | And do you know why I left her ? |
10 | Mike , a Cambridge undergraduate who is working on a kibbutz is talking to the Jewish girl Gila and explaining why he left university to end up in Israel . |
11 | ‘ I want to know why you left Gloucester , ’ stated fitzAlan . |
12 | ‘ When she goes away she leaves it tidy . ’ |
13 | Erm the premises was by now secured so I left the premises . |
14 | BOYFRIEND David Harper choked back tears yesterday as he told how he left his lover and her twin sister to die in a midnight barn blaze . |
15 | BROOKSIDE 'S sexy Jackie Corkhill , played by Sue Jenkins , has revealed why she left the Channel 4 soap . |
16 | When all this was going on I left my job as a bank clerk to work as a messenger . |
17 | Oddly , though he could never bear to be out of her sight and cried whenever she left him , as soon as his eldest sister , the faithful Cis , got him to her own home he ceased to cry . |
18 | I ca n't understand why they left it till the last moment ? |
19 | When he went back to play again he left his door ajar and I could see him in there naked to the waist , head bent . |
20 | no , if Maureen 's the same at , at home as she is at work then you can see why she left home |
21 | Initial goals should be reached at the end of the fifth year ( 16+ ) but the Compact entitlement stays with students permanently and can be redeemed whenever they leave full-time education . |
22 | I see the sign saying Welcome to Inverness just as I remember where I left the car and where I left from this morning and just before I turn and stamp to the nearest desk and demand in my highest dudgeon to be taken to Edinburgh on a charted Lear if necessary or limoed immediately to the highest-starred hotel within a reasonable radius for a free overnight dinner , bed and breakfast and unlimited bar tab . |
23 | You know when he leaves here go off and |
24 | I remember when I left Central School in 1966 they said the average life for a woman in the theatre was three years and seven for a man before giving it up . |
25 | ‘ You remember why I left the Met , Mr Dalgliesh . ’ |
26 | Yes , I remember why you left the Met . ’ |
27 | When the tide goes out it leaves mud that the mangroves are trying to colonise . |
28 | When he stalked out he left her with a motley crew mostly of accountants and lawyers . |
29 | Such bombs often smash into other bigger , stationary boulders at the base of the cone , shattering into smithereens , but in doing so they leave their own mark on the boulder . |
30 | Philip was so tightly wedged that when he was pulled out he left his pyjamas behind and emerged stark naked , although not seriously harmed . |