Example sentences of "[adv] leave [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I think you 'd better leave him for now , " interrupted Mr Jenks , walking down the corridor , " I 'll deal with him later . " |
| 2 | Let's just leave it for the moment , let's just leave it for the moment . |
| 3 | Let's just leave it for the moment , let's just leave it for the moment . |
| 4 | I would just leave it for a while |
| 5 | Ironically , Gallacher 's capacity for tragedy did not leave him for long ; at the end of the game he was told his sister-in-law had died in Scotland , and as the tartan army led a ragtime jazz-band through the streets of London , Hughie Gallacher was on his way to the funeral . |
| 6 | She would not , could not leave him for this boy ! |
| 7 | You add the wine , and mix it with the eggs and cheese , pour the mixture into a flameproof casserole and put it to cook immediately , but you do not leave it for an instant : you stir ceaselessly until you have a homogenous cream , and you serve it sizzling in the recipient in which it has cooked . " |
| 8 | I 'd sooner leave it for now , ’ Liza told her . |
| 9 | Just leave it for a while . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Just leave it for now — OK , Cand ? ’ she said lightly . |
| 11 | ( When he finally left us for the United States , he took these gifts back from me , with the excuse that as he had bought them in Berlin he wanted to show them to the dancer . |
| 12 | They scarcely left it for the next two weeks , their passion putting her dreams to shame . |
| 13 | They had a large box of miscellaneous bit and pieces of sticky tape and straws and wood and drawing pins and all sorts of things , and we essentially just left them for two weeks to do this — and they came up with some superb ideas . |
| 14 | A champion should always leave something for people to remember . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I think that either Floy could n't leave them for some reason , or — ’ |
| 16 | but yesterday morn he was , yesterday morning he started crying did n't he , I did n't leave him for any length of time |
| 17 | ‘ That 's right , do n't leave it for the rats , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke called . |
| 18 | Do n't leave it for you all the time . |
| 19 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
| 20 | We then run it into fermenters , adding yeast , then leave it for 3 days to ferment and rack it off into casks . |
| 21 | Well , you can bi what I tend to is is get a coat on er , first thing in the morning , another coat in the afternoon and then leave it for a week . |
| 22 | Unexpected , this affected him strongly , indeed left him for the moment in a strange turmoil emotionally . |
| 23 | He broke off in mid-sentence , as if suddenly realising who he was talking to , and abruptly left her for Mary Deare . |
| 24 | And from the crown of the final bend it was murder in the Montjuic stadium as Gunnell first eased alongside the American , then left her for dead down the home straight . |
| 25 | And from the crown of the final bend it was murder in the Montjuic stadium as Gunnell first eased alongside the American , then left her for dead down the home straight . |
| 26 | Yorkshireman George Duffield , whose previous St Leger ride was on a pacemaker 12 years ago , said : ‘ She just quickened up alongside them , and then left them for dead . ’ |
| 27 | Sir Alf Ramsey included David as substitute in his England Under 23 side against Wales at Swansea on l November 1967 , but Palace fans of the period will contend that David was worthy of further honours He eventually left us for orient in August 1973 ; his departure was regretted by the fans , who had always held this likeable young man in immense respect and affection . |
| 28 | Transfer the pudding to the refrigerator , where you may safely leave it for several days . |
| 29 | He had only managed to persuade her to join the company because her husband had recently left her for an older woman and she needed to get away from London . |
| 30 | He pushed his bicycle up the hill from Wheatley station in the company of another new student who had a strangely similar background : of nonconformist origins , with his father an official of a nonconformist Church ; a young man who postponed his own confirmation into the Church of England because his parents might be hurt ; and who swung at the university from his very Protestant background into a sense of the devotional stature in Anglo-Catholicism , and into convictions which never left him for the rest of his life ; a graduate of Balliol College , by name Austin Farrer . |