Example sentences of "[vb past] leave [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's just say I tried to leave with the minimum of fuss . |
| 2 | She left the tow-path where it bore left round the sweep of the river which looked across to the Cathedral 's east end and peddled along the road . |
| 3 | Hebbert joined him and moved left to the obvious beetling crack and groove line he had spotted from below — omitting to pause and wonder why this particular line soared up straight as an arrow , on a route called Curving Crack ! . |
| 4 | He came home to sleep and as soon as he woke after she 'd left for the Clinic , he went out . |
| 5 | So I called back again and the number was engaged , so I called back again and got through and he 'd left for the day |
| 6 | He bent down to his briefcase which he 'd left on the floor , took out a folder , turned back the pages , and handed it to her . |
| 7 | It was then that I saw that the folder I 'd left on the coffee table was gone . |
| 8 | Some said she 'd left with a broken heart . |
| 9 | She told you I 'd left with a bag . |
| 10 | Despite the Second Test trouncing by New Zealand , Murphy says Ireland needed that match , ‘ We 'd have come home with a very mistaken picture of our true form if we 'd left after the first international ’ . |
| 11 | Julie Rose would be there and would return the yellow shoes I 'd left in a dressing room two weeks ago . |
| 12 | A glass I 'd left in the kitchen in the morning was on the bedside table — with a drop of wine in it . |
| 13 | Bannen , whom she 'd left in the Operations Room , supposedly wracked with grief over the abrupt crash of the simularity of his son . |
| 14 | I just assumed you 'd left in the morning . |
| 15 | In a few minutes they 'd left behind the head office of Chester Fabrics , driven past the fire-blackened fabric printing plant and escaped into the lush green countryside on the way back to Armscott Manor , the rambling Cotswold home of the Chesters for three generations . |
| 16 | The men 's eyes automatically swivelled left to the women 's section at a tasteful thirty yards ' distance . |
| 17 | The crew was accused of trespassing and asked to leave by the police , who were called by the vicar when they arrived |
| 18 | She clutched the door handle for support as he manoeuvred past a bus , and then they began to leave behind the slowly rising concrete buildings and the dust and reached the worn hills beyond . |
| 19 | In Parma the Germans and Fascists began to leave in the early hours of the morning . |
| 20 | He hung left to the rails and by the time Willie Carson was able to switch him , Declassified was beyond recall . |
| 21 | Dyson swung left into a main road , looking over his shoulder to watch out for traffic from the right , and drove over the edge of the kerb . |
| 22 | It would have been very painful for Muldoon to have to pass on the bad news , so he decided to leave for the States and let the Detroit executive personnel Director handle Mark 's affairs . |
| 23 | After browsing in the local bookshop and buying a few necessities for the flat , I decided to leave for the course . |
| 24 | The way now worked left across the slabby walls , moving round into the subtle , hidden corners , heading into the sun . |
| 25 | As it was , people felt left in the dark about what the weighty causes of such an unusual step might have been , and remained worried about the seriousness of the situation in the east and that in the Reich itself ‘ something is not right ’ , suggesting conflict in the leading positions within the Wehrmacht and dissatisfaction of the Führer with prominent figures at home , whose life-style did not match the gravity of the times . |
| 26 | She stopped at the crossroads that took her towards her house and , instead of going right , as she normally would , went left towards the outskirts of Grantley . |
| 27 | Women who did not deliberately choose to remain single out of conviction or because they wished to pursue a career , but who nevertheless ‘ got left on the shelf , were often made to feel that they were failures . |
| 28 | ‘ Doctor , ’ Bernice said , standing , ‘ why do n't you come back here and answer some questions while I make sure no bits of my inner ear got left in the transmat . ’ |
| 29 | Rory took the car round the roundabout and slipped left onto the M1 . |
| 30 | and financial circumstances and erm , this was something of course that I had to leave to the people who were working got himself another job . |