Example sentences of "[conj] they leave [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want an Italian restaurant where the waiters bring you menus instead of shouting at you , where they leave the lights on instead of turning them off every twenty minutes , and where they make you get up and dance before they 'll turn them on again , then do n't try the Vecchio Reccione , however convenient it is for Stringfellows . |
| 2 | They said that they left a message with my solicitor and I just cracked . |
| 3 | One man told me that they left a rough sort of ramp at one side of the corn , and the horse slid down this on to the middlestead . |
| 4 | It may be that they left the gate open when they went , and Joe just trotted out . ’ |
| 5 | Adam insisted that they left the AmTrak Crescent at its penultimate stop in New Jersey . |
| 6 | Even Jews who had been released from concentration camps on strict condition that they left the Fatherland immediately were obliged to pay for the round trip . |
| 7 | Has the Liberal party broken a convention , or was it merely a display of bad manners that they left the Chamber immediately after their spokesman had finished ? |
| 8 | On a Formica table it was so patently stupid that they left the shaking and washing and ironing of it to her in contempt . |
| 9 | And as often happens , United were so committed to attack , that they left the drawbridge down at the back and Lemon scored another in the last minute to make it Hereford 1 ; Chesterfield 3 . |
| 10 | And I remember that they left the key in the house and , and they locked , locked , locked the |
| 11 | One of the penalties of keeping immaculate accounts is that they leave no room for hope — there were no errors in Nora 's books to offer the firm a surprise salvation . |
| 12 | However , their big advantage is that they leave the purchaser with unlimited upside potential in the event of a favourable exchange rate movement . |
| 13 | Speaking of Tynagh he said the company had failed to fulfil the only planning obligation required of them : that they leave the place as near as possible to how they found it . |
| 14 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 15 | Those who during the week at Lake Nona took the opportunity to ask questions about the running of America 's LPGA circuit , are convinced that it is to the players ' advantage that they leave the running of the association to its staff while they themselves concentrate on their golf . |
| 16 | No one seemed to be around , but nobody was willing to take any chances , and so they left the road and approached cautiously across country . |
| 17 | For as they left England so they left the English language behind . |
| 18 | He still felt extremely nervous about what might happen once they left the warren and had decided that the best way to avoid trouble would be to keep close to Hazel and do exactly what he said . |
| 19 | Blanche opened a road atlas once they left the motorway and navigated with the diligence of a woman who did not have a natural sense of direction . |
| 20 | They had arrived at a point opposite one corner of the house , but once they left the trees there was no more cover until they reached the broad belt of shrubbery which ran parallel to the side of the house . |
| 21 | The ground was still hard , despite the thaw , and they left no traces . |
| 22 | And they left the room . |
| 23 | She nodded and they left the house hand in hand and walked across the springy turf . |
| 24 | When the train had gone and they left the station Sarah seemed quiet and thoughtful and Anne thought that she was more upset by Terry 's leaving than she had shown while he was there . |
| 25 | He laughed back at her and they left the pub hand in hand . |
| 26 | The idea was not taken up , and half an hour later Richard signed the bill and they left the Relais together . |
| 27 | He summoned the waiter and , with the speed she was getting used to , paid the bill , and they left the restaurant , his hand on her arm . |
| 28 | She took the arm he offered her , and they left the café together . |
| 29 | Maxim bypassed the village completely map-reading George up a third road above the farm and they left the car there with perhaps a quarter-mile walk down into the valley and up again to the cottage . |
| 30 | He laughed , linking his arm in hers , and they left the dining-room . |