Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] leave the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No pupils refused to participate in the study , and as pupils were not warned about the administration of the survey we assumed that those registered pupils who did not complete the survey were either absent or had left the school . |
| 2 | Under the amended election law the president was provided with the power to appoint new deputies to replace those who had died or had left the Assembly since the last elections in 1972 . |
| 3 | He said Muslim civilians could be evacuated or were free to stay in the enclave and Serb forces would allow the sick and wounded to leave the area . |
| 4 | Between July 9 and 13 nearly 5,000 Albanians — mostly young men aged between 20 and 30 — who had sought refuge in foreign embassies in Tirana were given passports by the Albanian government and allowed to leave the country . |
| 5 | Bronwen ap Bryn said , as she stroked her tattooed scalp thoughtfully and turned to leave the sick-bay . |
| 6 | Half convinced , she shrugged philosophically and turned to leave the apartment 's square entrance hall in which they were standing , aware of Luke following her into the luxuriously appointed lounge , a long elegant room which ended in sliding glass doors opening on to a balcony with a view she had spent part of the afternoon enjoying , pretty green parkland dotted with ornamental ponds linked by a winding , deeply cut stream that was spanned by the occasional arched stone bridge . |
| 7 | After several twists and tilts , the sediment is not only disturbed and encouraged to leave the sides of the bottle , but the bottle finally achieves a fully inverted position ready for dégorgement . |
| 8 | And that kind of thing went on for a long time , until I could stand it no longer and decided to leave the USSR . |
| 9 | Tennyson considered the matter and decided to leave the poem as he had written it : ‘ Six is much better than seven hundred ( as I think ) metrically so keep it . ’ |
| 10 | I 've owned a house on the coast for a year or so , and decided to leave the car in the garage there when I went to the Middle East . ’ |
| 11 | I said they did and offered to leave the door on the latch so he could sneak in for a bit of a warm . |
| 12 | Even if I DID turn both taps fully on and DID leave the plug out I would not allow the bath to get anywhere near overflowing because my Mum would beat me around the head with the back-scrubber . |
| 13 | The loss of William Whitelaw , who suffered a stroke and had to leave the government , was a blow to the Prime Minister . |
| 14 | We were only allowed off the site to go to work , and this is where we shift girls scored as we worked round the clock and had to leave the camp after dark when all the day workers had to stay indoors . |
| 15 | A tooth abscess had built up over 24 hrs and had left the patient without sleep for a night , it was very clearly Belladonna given the nature of the pain and the characteristic worse for lying . |
| 16 | But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way . |
| 17 | She had , apparently , spent little of the money on herself , had been a dependable benefactress of the few eccentric charities of which she approved , had remembered them in her will , but without egregious generosity , and had left the residue of her estate to him without explanation , admonition or peculiar protestations of affection , although he had no doubt that the words ‘ my dearly beloved nephew ’ meant exactly what they said . |
| 18 | Dolly , of course , had played the innocent for the moment and had left the money untouched . |
| 19 | But the dilemma remained and had left the US with the choice of two ghastly courses of action . |
| 20 | He said nothing until they were outside New Scotland Yard and had left the security men far behind , stamping their feet against the cold outside the main door . |
| 21 | At that time , he was not suspicious of any burglars but thought that Sara had been careless and had left the window unlocked . |
| 22 | Fortunately , when I did we maintained a perfect climbing attitude , I completed my mission , during which I spent sometime thinking about the young airman who had done the daily inspection of the instruments , and had left the auto pilot engaged . |
| 23 | To everyone 's surprise , though , she had married at eighteen , and had left the village . |
| 24 | On June 8 the Hungarian Defence Minister Lajos Für announced in Moscow that Hungary would cease to participate in Warsaw Pact military exercises and wished to leave the alliance by the end of 1991 . |
| 25 | He felt the wreck of his face with delicate fingertips , and refused to leave the room . |
| 26 | Rose and Mary were for once showing a united front and refused to leave the kitchen because they did n't quite like the way the young women from the town who had come to be waitresses were poking and prying into their cupboards with their noses in the air . |
| 27 | A spokesman for the band said : ‘ He managed the first number , but had to leave the stage , almost collapsing , halfway through the second song . |
| 28 | They buried the bodies of those who had died on the boat , but had to leave the others where they were for grypesh could be seen prowling on the bank . |
| 29 | A spokesman for the band said : ‘ He managed the first number , but had to leave the stage , almost collapsing , halfway through the second song . |
| 30 | He told them he had bought the car but had left the Manwarings in good health . |