Example sentences of "[noun sg] leave us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The college 's principal , Professor Norman Gower , said he was sad that it had to sell but added : ‘ The cost of preserving Thomas Holloway 's main benefaction left us with no alternative . |
| 2 | ‘ The old girl left us in the dark , ’ said Iris with a jerk of her head towards the empty desk . |
| 3 | ‘ The law leaves us in a very curious condition , ’ former consultant Alan Dixon told the Cox case jury . |
| 4 | The lone C sharp minor Prelude , Op. 45 concludes the final disc leaving us with an example of Cortot 's art at its most fervent and deeply introspective . |
| 5 | The band left us after lunch to play on the esplanade of Stirling Castle . |
| 6 | In Lakatos 's view , a relativist position according to which there is no standard higher than that of the relevant community leaves us with no way of criticizing that standard . |
| 7 | Driving out of town leaves us with nothing , except everything behind us . |
| 8 | SOME SAY Martin Scorsese 's return to the streets of Downtown New York makes heroes of the very villains it hopes to demystify , but GoodFellas ' opening scenario leaves us in no doubt . |
| 9 | SOME SAY Martin Scorsese 's return to the streets of Downtown New York makes heroes of the very villains it hopes to demystify , but GoodFellas ' opening scenario leaves us in no doubt . |
| 10 | It is often part of an author 's technique to leave us in some doubt as to what precisely is going on in the fictional world , as Katherine Mansfield does here . |
| 11 | His departure left us on the not very charismatic score of 69 for 6 . |
| 12 | If we 're asking for somebody to persuade the giant to leave us in peace , ask those whose hands are highest : " What qualities are going to be needed here ? |
| 13 | How can we persuade the Giant to leave us in peace ? |
| 14 | a chivalric Don Quixote figure of absolute non-compromise in matters ( as he sees them ) of virtue and truth , in effect an overspill from The Idiot — which Dostoevsky seems to have recognized , for he abandoned the positive and sublime venture , and hived off the comic material he had accumulated into the drunken buffoon Captain Lebyadkin who grows into a substantial second-rank character in The Possessed ; , and as to Kartuzov , the novelist left us with nothing more than his cappy surname . |
| 15 | The earlier discussion of the various forms of interference theory left us with two main candidates ( above , p. 116 ) and both still remain possible . |
| 16 | Everybody scattered , including the scared young lady with the serious skin condition ; she just vanished out of the back of the café leaving us with smashed bottles and glasses . |
| 17 | Revenue figures necessarily start at a modest level and even 100 per cent growth leaves us with a level only slightly less modest . |
| 18 | The importance of damping down retaliation is dramatized by the following memoir by a British ( as if the first sentence left us in any doubt ) officer : |
| 19 | Colleagues er , the defeat of Wider Democracy last year left us with a bit of a hole in our constitution . |
| 20 | Kuhn 's position leaves us with no way of criticizing the decisions and mode of operating of the scientific community . |
| 21 | Unless carefully monitored , stimulation of the brain leaves us with the problem of not knowing the extent of the area that has been affected by the stimulation . |
| 22 | While the objectors to Foxley Wood — and to Tillingham and Stone Bassett before it — may be rejoicing , the decision leaves us with no solutions to the future growth of population and households in the region . |
| 23 | In the novel , Parkin 's declaration leaves us in no doubt about what he feels and what he wants . |