Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] leave " in BNC.
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| 1 | Misson , in his commentary on the English funeral , tells us what happened next , and why : ‘ They let it [ the corpse ] lye three of four Days … which Time they allow , as well to give the dead Person an Opportunity of Coming to Life again , if his Soul has not quite left his Body , as to prepare Mourning , and the Ceremonies of the Funeral . ’ |
| 2 | They let it lye three or four days in this Condition ; which Time they allowe , as well to give the dead Person an Opportunity of Coming to Life again , if his Soul has not quite left his Body , as to prepare Mourning , and the Ceremonies of the Funerall . |
| 3 | They did not even leave the building . |
| 4 | Sean 's dad did not even leave his seat because he was unprepared to do anything about this problem , but he knew that he should do something about it . |
| 5 | In the end , the mini-LP initially catalogued as Reception Records ' REC 010 , did not actually leave Red Rhino 's York warehouse , except for a few copies . |
| 6 | Given the reluctance of some courts to convict on forensic evidence and the fact that terrorists do not usually leave a signed visiting card at the scene of the crime , will it not become more and more difficult to obtain convictions ? |
| 7 | ‘ That 's what I keep asking myself — because she did n't just leave . |
| 8 | I 'm quite sure that when she said that , come see a man that told me everything I did , she did n't just leave it there , but she 'd have put such words as and he did n't condemn me he did n't berate me he did n't point a judgemental finger at me , but he loved me ! |
| 9 | do n't be silly did n't really leave you you were just being stubborn were n't you ? , still are . |
| 10 | ‘ She did n't actually leave anything , but she had a parcel with her . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If there 's any problems we do n't just leave it to one member of staff , we try to sort it out together . |
| 12 | Do n't just leave this to youth workers , but get involved yourself if you can . |
| 13 | Do n't just leave it to the media and politicians to protest — get up and do it yourself . |
| 14 | Do n't just leave it to the marketing people . |
| 15 | they do n't just leave it , they 'll go and do it , you know ? |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , Ross — p-please do n't … do n't ever leave me again ! ’ |
| 17 | Er y you do n't actually leave go of the cord straight away . |
| 18 | He has a wife and children and most men do n't usually leave their wives , do they ? ’ |
| 19 | Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement . |
| 20 | That was confidence — the first man to carry his own food and water across the Sahara , and I had not even left the main road yet . |
| 21 | Eliot had not altogether left behind his earlier anthropological interests . |
| 22 | He suddenly felt horribly drunk , but his wits had not altogether left him and he had a nasty inkling that his speech was not to the point . |
| 23 | It was half past ten in the morning , twenty-four hours after arriving in Reggane and I had not yet left . |
| 24 | Shortly before five o'clock the sepoy cavalry made an attack near the Cutcherry but fortunately the men had not yet left their positions at the rampart . |
| 25 | Peacock , who had not yet left the palace after dining with the King , noticed that the Prime Minister had gone into the King 's room like a shattered man-'scared and unbalanced' was Wigram 's phrase- and emerged with head erect and confidence restored . |
| 26 | He himself had not long left his rooms in Courtfield Gardens , chez the Vicar , Father Eric Cheetham , and settled with John Hayward in Carlyle Mansions , Chelsea . |
| 27 | Start by increasing power until the model becomes very light on the floats but does not quite leave the ground . |
| 28 | This does not perhaps leave the section totally without point , in that by directing the board to consider the employees it might expand the cognitive basis of decision making and so might on occasion lead to a superior accommodation of employee interests within the traditional framework of shareholder supremacy . |
| 29 | Thrift does not often leave her side . |
| 30 | A coronary thrombosis does n't exactly leave a guy feeling perky ! ’ |