Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] leave " in BNC.

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1 Now how long has she left that sitting there ?
2 So let me leave you with a few wise words .
3 Apart from anything else you 're seconded to our team now so asking you to leave is n't entirely up to IMP any more . ’
4 He was so miffed he left without leaving his name .
5 So do you leave it switched on even when nobody 's talking ?
6 Well I did leave the other one how long do you leave it ?
7 He says how long do you leave it dad ?
8 So it 's how quickly is it using electricity and how long did you leave it on for ?
9 ’ Aye , weel , ’ he considered , ’ there 's no much i' it left , is there ?
10 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 .
11 And all she could think of , as she rose to her feet and politely accompanied him to the front door , was that , suddenly , she did not want him to leave .
12 But the teacher of this lesson wisely does not want it left as ‘ slack ’ as that : she qualified the listener 's contribution by suggesting she should be in role as a friend , colleague or relation .
13 We just asked them to leave and told them we would explain later .
14 No sooner has he left than Edmund moves up to verse to show that he is semper idem : Edmund shares Goneril and Regan 's contempt for old age , but he goes beyond them even , in betraying his own father , knowing that the penalty for helping Lear may be death .
15 I just want you to leave it in .
16 Kathie is all Nell has got , we 've been told this several times ; he appeals to Nell as the mother of their only child , not to cause her to leave home .
17 But his wife was always his chief protector — he did not like her to leave his side for more than a day .
18 Morris is due a benefit before too long and , despite fears in some Celtic quarters , I can not see him leaving Glamorgan .
19 She did not see him leave .
20 In one case an immigrant who was present in Britain was denied judicial review of a decision not to give him leave to enter the country because of the existence of a right of appeal which could only be exercised if the immigrant left Britain .
21 He is to stop the ship , speak to Queen Yolande and not allow her to leave the Firth of Forth until Corbett has satisfactory answers to questions which intrigue even me .
22 The English could not cross it leaving behind them unconquered French outposts , of which Orléans was one .
23 The effect on arboreal animals is largely to force them to leave logged forest and , as forests diminish , to promote their overcrowding .
24 ‘ I do not require you to leave , ’ he said .
25 The parents would not let me leave home without them . ’
26 No matter what it cost her , she could not let him leave without trying to speak to him .
27 Even after the king is killed and Macbeth is named king his ambition will not let him leave it at that .
28 I knew the master would not let her leave the safety of the Grange to go so far , especially as the road to the hills passed close to Wuthering Heights .
29 He knew the Headmaster would not allow him to leave the school , not even in his good mood .
30 ‘ General Fakrid , I can not allow you to leave the command vehicle , ’ he stuttered reluctantly .
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