Example sentences of "[adv] leave him 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | She would not , could not leave him for this boy ! |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Unexpected , this affected him strongly , indeed left him for the moment in a strange turmoil emotionally . |
| 6 | 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 . |