Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] leave the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so , for the second time in his life , Lawrence Beesley found himself leaving the Titanic just before it was due to go down . |
| 2 | He let her leave the room before going across to Aggie , who was standing now looking down into the fire , and he patted the back of her shoulder , saying , ‘ You 're doin' the best thing , Aggie , the only thing . |
| 3 | ‘ He told them to leave the house immediately and it would appear that they did not take him seriously but laughed when he said this . |
| 4 | He told me to leave the track . |
| 5 | Therefore , next time they spawned I left the eggs where they were until I had a new tank prepared for the adults . |
| 6 | He had been an army officer once and there had been trouble that caused him to leave the army . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , his position as high sheriff of Hull prevented his leaving the town and the expedition was abandoned . |
| 8 | As the light faded she left the office and returned to her room , where she changed into a more attractive dress and attended to her make-up . |
| 9 | Trovoada , a 54-year-old lawyer ( whose name was previously given as Trouvoada ) , served as Prime Minister from 1975 to 1979 , but was imprisoned for 21 months after a quarrel with Pinto da Costa , who subsequently allowed him to leave the country in 1981 . |
| 10 | We further agreed that we would make no promises and twist no arms , and having decided on this general strategy , my friends urged me to leave the campaign to them . |
| 11 | He watched her leave the room . |
| 12 | I nodded , and nervously watched him leave the room . |
| 13 | Christina watched him leave the house and walk towards the beach before she went inside and dressed slowly , thinking about his reaction to her refusal to make love . |
| 14 | She watched him leave the room , her heart heavy , as though she had run a long way uphill , and had not the strength for the return journey . |
| 15 | She watched him leave the kitchen , sighed furiously and then stared blankly into space . |
| 16 | Disconcerted , she said goodbye , and watched him leave the room . |
| 17 | He expected her to leave the company without questioning his decision , but he was wrong . |
| 18 | Election Comment : Never forget the damage Labour did Ambrose Evans-Pritchard recalls the chaos of the 1970s that led him to leave the country |
| 19 | Certainly both the account in the Office of his later career and the remarks he let drop in his own writings point to a friction in his situation which ultimately led him to leave the Daltons to seek a quiet place elsewhere . |
| 20 | He was ordained deacon in 1870 , and priest in 1872 , but in his first curacy he fell foul of both his vicar and his bishop for his heterodox beliefs ; the former asked him to leave the parish and the latter delayed his ordination . |
| 21 | Now I thought I left the list in the restaurant because the blokes . |
| 22 | As the weather eased she left the fire off . |
| 23 | But nor had she been allowed to use the telephone or leave the office , except for one visit to the toilet down the corridor accompanied by a sour-faced secretary who weighed at least twelve stone and insisted she leave the door ajar . |
| 24 | When the young King was dying , probably of tuberculosis , the protector , Northumberland , persuaded him to leave the throne in his Will to his Protestant cousin Lady Jane Grey , Northumberland 's daughter-in-law , instead of to his Catholic half-sister Mary , as prescribed in the Act of Succession of Henry VIII 's reign . |
| 25 | They saw him leave the room where they were sitting and begin to walk across a bar which lay between it and the entrance to the building . |
| 26 | ‘ Yours truly saw him leaving the Olympus Theatre in Gloucester on Wednesday evening . |
| 27 | Joyce 's services to the cause were recognised by a paid appointment as West London Area Administrative Officer of the BUF , which enabled him to leave the Victoria Tutorial College and abandon his PhD thesis at King 's . |
| 28 | When he died he left the land to the Drapers Company — a charitable institution for residents of East London . |
| 29 | I saw myself leaving the room , packing a suitcase , writing a note . |
| 30 | The Council did not discuss the morality of methods of contraception because Pope Paul asked it to leave the matter to his own special commission . |