Example sentences of "[verb] leave them [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sanding floors : Where old floorboards are very uneven , or you want to leave them exposed and they are badly stained and marked , hire a floor sanding machine . |
| 2 | I told you I 'd left them handy . |
| 3 | Tomorrow , when I have to tell them how close the Whistler is getting , I may not like to leave them alone after dark . |
| 4 | I have two girls aged six and two and I do n't like leaving them one bit . |
| 5 | If the family want to go abroad again , I should n't mind leaving them another year ; but I could n't the very first time . |
| 6 | And then adding all these up , well there 's none of them that add up that we can just add in to any of the others , so we 'll have to leave them all like that , so the answer is just a , a thousand , plus a hundred Y plus ten X , plus X Y. Now if we wanted to multiply , let's say we want to multiply a hundred and three by seventeen , that just means that X is seven , sorry X is three and Y is seven . |
| 7 | ‘ We could n't have left them alive . ’ |
| 8 | People and dogs came from as far away as Oxford to take part in this event which must have left them all fitter and leaner at the end of the day . |
| 9 | Make sure that they have everything they need and that they have been thoroughly briefed , but do leave them alone to do their job . |
| 10 | The implication of her words was obvious , but it would have been wiser of her to have left them unspoken . |
| 11 | By night he kept himself from the usual evenings with Henry and Betty , thinking to leave them some space for a time , and he would often take a sleeping pill at eight , before dinner , because sleep had grown difficult . |
| 12 | He had left them two small crates , and yesterday Ruth had helped Gran pack up her lovely old china — fragile blue-and-white majolica ware , Staffordshire teapots and Bristol figures , mostly chipped or cracked , but still beautiful . |
| 13 | For earlier , the grandma , who had left them some time ago , had pulled out a drawer from a deal tallboy , and put a noxious blanket in it , ready for the baby 's birth . |
| 14 | It had left them some time to take stock of their lives . |
| 15 | That so far the outlaws had left them alone and kept out of sight troubled them all , this was so unexpected that it increased their fears rather than diminished them . |
| 16 | Both before , and for long after Maman had left them alone with each other , the useful and interesting occupations Aunt Tossie found , or invented , for her , were always in unhappy contrast with both love and its cold aftermath . |
| 17 | Leaving Hong Kong had not just removed her from the battlefield ; it had left them alone in it together for the first time in their lives . |
| 18 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said tightly , aware that her father had left them alone deliberately . |
| 19 | For example , Clive and Rose Greenacre 's early blueprints had left them both distrusting dependency and the reliability of others , but they handled this problem in complementary ways . |
| 20 | On the one hand the last of the apostles had passed on ; the last of those authorised interpreters of the person and work of Jesus had left them bereft . |
| 21 | The business at Spanish Fork had left them dead or gone . |
| 22 | She slammed the door behind her , then instantly regretted that she had left them shut in alone together . |
| 23 | ‘ We are fast approaching the point when the risk of attempting a rescue — and there is the risk that we could force them to beach — will be less than simply leaving leaving them alone , ’ Dr Martin added . |
| 24 | We need to leave them some to swim in before we catch them . |
| 25 | Perhaps they 've had some sort of trouble that 's left them sad . " |
| 26 | About a hundred people work here now and the months in the hands of the administrators have left them fearful |
| 27 | Nineteenth Century operations have left them deep and dangerous . |
| 28 | The good years have left them wealthy men . |
| 29 | The latest changes have taken children further and further away from the values of a good British education and have left them ill-equipped to cope in a real world where success or failure mattered , he said . |