Example sentences of "[pron] leave for the " in BNC.

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1 I left for the South Coast to join Lord Lovat and the invasion that was to come . ’
2 I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’
3 Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them .
4 He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport .
5 I dropped it when I left for the realm .
6 Then they cry when you leave for the airport .
7 We can see why Michael was to be admired ; but Michael 's son , who left for the town , was forced to do so because his father had to find money in a hurry and would not sell his land .
8 Must ‘ ave been a good nine months back , not that long after you left for the front , come to think of it . ’
9 Finally , she left for the airfield in a pale-green safari suit , which marked her a soldier 's wife but distinguished her from the lesser spouses .
10 She was about to ask if he 'd be back before she left for the night , when the door closed behind him .
11 Do you happen to know whether she was wearing it when she left for the airport ?
12 As she left for the first night party , she just had time to tell us what she thought :
13 It will be dry by the time we leave for the dance . ’
14 We leave for the airport at 6 a.m .
15 We have to talk before we leave for the office . ’
16 Realising it was vital , we left for the mountains immediately .
17 ‘ It 's time we left for the NEC , ’ Myra said , her eyes darting from Claudia to Roman and back again .
18 With puffins still zooming around the landing bay , we left for the mainland having had a marvellous day .
19 They leave for the city of Prejmer on July 2 .
20 Then they left for the 13-mile drive to their luxurious home at Corston , near Bath .
21 Alternatively , he could always have chatted up one of the drivers of Middleton & Co. 's waggon , asking if there was a bit of spare room for an extra body when they left for the King 's Arms in Holborn on a Sunday evening or a Monday morning .
22 It was won by the Cheshire Youth Orchestra , who were in jubilant mood as they left for the journey home .
23 At 3.30am the following day they left for the summit , Wanda climbing slowly by herself while Carlos , who was going well , reached the summit at 5pm .
24 The committee reported in February 1943 in very alarming language that there would be nothing left for the British postwar aircraft industry unless something were done at once .
25 She ate without comment but there was nothing left for the dogs .
26 When the decisions of all market participants dovetail completely , so that each plan correctly assumes the corresponding plans of the other participants and no possibility exists for any altered plans that would be simultaneously preferred by the relevant participants , there is nothing left for the entrepreneur to do .
27 Formed at Munsingen , it left for the front on 16 February 1945 — far too late for Vlasov 's dream to have a chance of fulfillment , and two weeks after the Wehrmacht officially cast KONR adrift as no longer part of the German armed forces .
28 Mr Browning , before he left for the south , complimented her on her handling of his friend .
29 If he had been able to speak to Jo each morning before he left for the Embassy , he probably would n't have been such a pain in the outer office .
30 He said he left for the thrill of a start-up rather than the tedium of maintenance , indicating Silicon Graphics , MIPS new master , did not consider making the MIPS chip a universal standard as much of a priority as Sun does the Sparc .
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