Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] leave [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Now how long has she left that sitting there ? |
2 | Morton said it was only the intervention of the Queen which stopped her leaving public life for good . |
3 | In an added postscript , Mr Morton said it was only the intervention of the Queen which stopped her leaving public life for good . |
4 | Has he left that job ? |
5 | Ah , has he left enough room for our ? |
6 | ‘ Did you expect them to leave all that in ? ’ he said . |
7 | Despite the call of duty , and the deep warm affection she had for her cousin 's little girls , every instinct Laura possessed was overwhelmingly urging her to leave this vehicle ; to put as great a distance between herself and Ross as she possibly could . |
8 | I let him leave first . |
9 | He 'd have to judge the force of the blow very carefully and you 'd expect it to leave more than a slight bump . ’ |
10 | The case for loans has been most strongly argued by a group at the London School of Economics whose main criticism of an entirely grant-based approach is that it favours better-off families , and as it is currently operated it leaves many students in poverty . |
11 | However , let us leave that to the experts . |
12 | Let us leave such vexatious matters for the time being . ’ |
13 | ( perhaps one should say that as such a psychological statement it would express my awareness that I have the belief rather than my belief that I have the belief , since belief is not quite the right word in this context , but let us leave such qualifications to be understood . ) |
14 | Come , let us leave this chaos . ’ |
15 | Gioella impatiently removed his hand from her necklace and , standing up , said , ‘ Come , Constance , let us leave these silly men . |
16 | Come , let us leave these fruiting lovely valleys Where we have laboured , to the men who till them And start the journey to our cloud-wreathed home Where you will live with me among the gods In joy on lofty Olympus . |
17 | She had watched him leave all those years ago , he thought . |
18 | Personally , from the point of view of nature conservancy , I 'd rather see it left unspoiled . ’ |
19 | ‘ And tell him to leave Tulagai and Targoutai behind . |
20 | ‘ If that is what you want , Mr Reynolds , then I 'm sure David can be persuaded to leave with his family , ’ Beth told him icily ; though in fact she despaired of ever persuading him to leave this house . |
21 | No cos it , it was straightforward I think and does n't look to be too much wasted , you , you know they leave all that so I 'll just it a quick , a quick , really a very quick hoover but I ca n't get to the bit where the waste carpet is but er yes it looks nice I think . |
22 | Use a large notebook or a pad of lined paper and teach him to leave two or three lines blank between the lines of text for a word-for-word gloss . |
23 | I find I leave these places even more frustrated than I was when I arrived . ’ |
24 | Are you saying she left some of her trappings at Betterhouse when she was with us ? |
25 | ‘ I reckon we leave this one , huh ? ’ |
26 | The candidates themselves may have to commit more time to the interview selection process ; the interviewers will have to ensure they leave enough time for discussion between themselves as well as making their own post-interview notes ; time will have to be set aside for the interviewers to meet and finalize their decision . |
27 | The effect on arboreal animals is largely to force them to leave logged forest and , as forests diminish , to promote their overcrowding . |
28 | Very often , too , when we were travelling round the farms doing repairs ( and many of these were done just before harvest to prevent hold-ups at a busy time ) the Guv'nor would tell us to leave two shillings at a certain farm , half a crown perhaps at another , and at some only a shilling : that would go towards the men 's largesse-spending . ’ |
29 | This is the family home and my mother did n't want it left empty . |
30 | She told him if he could not face her and the baby , he must let them leave this place . |