Example sentences of "[pron] leave [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt there are other ways to criticize the legal opera ; these I leave to other critics . |
| 2 | This controversial book was widely discussed but whether it was read by artists I leave to further research . |
| 3 | ‘ I leave with great regret . |
| 4 | Also when I leave on 4th Feb , I have a 12 hour wait at Rio de Janeiro , so I hope I can look round the city . |
| 5 | This is how my mind works : If I leave at 10.30 that gives me an hour before I go to sleep to stuff myself . |
| 6 | You built a little plan , that if I leave at ten past eight , I miss that traffic , or I , whatever it is that you do n't often plan till the holidays , but after a while it stopped being a decision making process . |
| 7 | But now , in the circumstances , I left without any heart-searching or serious regret . |
| 8 | As a matter of fact , before I left on that Friday evening I bought a painting from her — The Blind Gypsy — for my mother 's birthday . ’ |
| 9 | When I left at two o'clock , Tally and I were addressing each other by first names ( ‘ Elliot ’ was strange to him and we settled for ‘ Ellix ’ ) and I was able to address the two waitresses by their first names without feeling uncomfortable . |
| 10 | I left at fourteen . |
| 11 | I left at twenty to eight . |
| 12 | I left at ten to two . |
| 13 | and then there 's me , tell me when it gets to eleven and like I had to go and get a shower and put the dinner all out and all before I left at half four . |
| 14 | Actually , he 'd started on that before six and I think he 'd finished when I left at six-fifteen . |
| 15 | I left with some enchanting images , from the old woman by her fireside in Cregneish Folk Village , quietly treading her wheel while speckled hens strutted back and forth across her threshold , to the lone figure in the rain on Douglas beach digging for clams . |
| 16 | I left about one o'clock in the morning , more sober , and awash with tea . |
| 17 | I left about ten to seven to go and get the seven o'clock bus |
| 18 | I left about three feet of bench between me and him . |
| 19 | I left after that . |
| 20 | The result is so infantile , feeble and unfunny that I left after 50 minutes — and you should see some of the rubbish I 've endured to the end . |
| 21 | I joined a flower arranging society thinking ‘ Well I quite like flowers and it 's a good way to meet people ’ , but I found it so boring that I left after three months . |
| 22 | As I left in early afternoon to catch the London train , I reflected that here was as large number of small businessmen who were likely to see some radical changes in the way they operated . |
| 23 | A very fine thing , and you know until er until the day I left in nineteen forty two they always referred to these chaps in the forties like say I was , er a as being er , Ooh he 's a man . |
| 24 | Er well when I left in nineteen seventy six . |
| 25 | Er I do n't know , nineteen fifty , right until the day I left in nineteen seventy six . |
| 26 | The result was that Hawker Siddeley soon stopped making robots altogether and , disenchanted , I left in 1972 to work for Pye Dynamics in Bushey , Hertfordshire , part of the Philips group . |
| 27 | ‘ I left in 1940 to join the RAF , which I stayed with until November 1945 , and then I went to Hacker Rubens & Co which has now become Hacker Young . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It has been officially reckoned by educationalists that school-leavers of yesteryear ( even at 14 ) were far more advanced in the three R's and the sciences than their counterparts of the present day who leave at 16 . |
| 30 | The women who leave Seascale in 1950 will produce approximately a×b×27 children , as will those who leave in 1951 , and so on for 14 years . |