Example sentences of "[was/were] leave the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Foreign Ministry on March 21 announced that International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) operations in Iran were to be frozen and all its 15 staff were to leave the country by March 28 . |
| 2 | And what if she were to leave the shelter of the house ? |
| 3 | Even if someone were to leave the Department , or drop dead-even if you were to , what 's the expression , take out a contract on one of us ’ — he laughs to show that this is a joke , displaying a number of chipped and discoloured teeth , set in his gums at odd angles , like tombstones in a neglected churchyard — ‘ even then , I very much doubt whether we should get a replacement . |
| 4 | If I were to leave the job in 1995 or 1996 I would not want to leave behind a wrecked team because that 's not my style . |
| 5 | Had the tax been implemented at the time it would have noticeably increased the number of tax exiles who were leaving the country , for never mind pop-stars and sportsmen , it would have been even worth the while of middle management to seek a place in the ex-colonial countries , or to learn a new tongue for residence in a foreign land , simply in order to achieve some savings and improve his family life and provide for dependants . |
| 6 | While exploring the question of whether bees can use information about direction gathered on the flight back from the food , we transported foragers caught as they were leaving the hive for natural sources to an artificial feeder in the middle of a large car park hundreds of metres from the hive . |
| 7 | ‘ Jones and Nicky Kai were leaving the building when I arrived this evening , and as Jones seemed to imagine that I was here to call on him I simply explained that you were the object of my presence . ’ |
| 8 | Three ministers announced that they were leaving the Government at their own request : Lord Belstead ( Ulster ) ; Mr Tim Renton ( Arts Minister ) ; and Mr Alan Howarth ( Education ) . |
| 9 | A train from Geneva had just arrived , and the passengers were leaving the station . |
| 10 | In the closing years of the nineteenth century , just as the eastern Germans were leaving the land and deserting the east , at the very time that the Polish population of the border districts was on the rise , the theoretical and practical policies of both the Polenpolitik and the Kulturkampf were hardening around the drive towards industrial and imperial expansion — if not overseas , which was almost impossible — then in the eastern borderlands . |
| 11 | As we were leaving the theatre , we had to wait for Dad to shake hands in the foyer with some dignitaries . |
| 12 | All of these she had wriggled out of , and as they were leaving the cinema he had had the nerve to say , ‘ You know , I really respect you for saying no , Benny . |
| 13 | They were leaving the village , crossing the Avon . |
| 14 | On 24 May the first batch of 1,000 Serbs had been moved from Viktring , and further lorry loads were leaving the camp during McCreery 's visit . |
| 15 | When Mrs Hollidaye had finished her praying and they were leaving the church , she stopped at the back and showed Dot a book with writing in it . |
| 16 | As they were leaving the producer paused and smiled at her . |
| 17 | On the following day the radical mayors of Moscow and Leningrad , respectively Gavriil Popov and Anatoly Sobchak , similarly announced to the congress that they were leaving the party . |
| 18 | And we had put it on fire and it had died down , you could have put it on two or three shovels , when we were leaving the place do you see , and it was all quiet and all all right now , and off we went home . |
| 19 | ‘ The messier the better , ’ she said , as they were leaving the shop . |
| 20 | With it safely in his pocket , they were leaving the foyer , Luce leading the way , when a voice cried , ‘ Well , hello ! |
| 21 | He should recall that in the last two years of the last Labour Government , up to 5,000 police men and women were leaving the police force each year and voting with their feet . |
| 22 | His trouble this time was that masons , carpenters , and other mechanics were leaving the job almost as soon as they started , because of the outrageous rents being demanded by the people with houses bordering the line , especially in Rhyll , where they wanted ten shillings a week just for a room . |
| 23 | The waitress added up the modest sum , and then asked them regretfully if they were leaving the district for good . |
| 24 | that people were leaving the country. , my friend wrote to my niece in One House and asked her if I could live with her until I got fixed up in a home . |
| 25 | Two other men were wounded in the shooting , which happened as three men , one armed with a sawn-off shotgun , were leaving the post office at Tara , Co Meath . |
| 26 | One evening Karen and Susan were leaving the laboratory . |
| 27 | In fact we were slowly falling in love , and when one late afternoon Eric kissed me as we were leaving the garden , I was not surprised . |
| 28 | Furthermore , new teachers were not being trained fast enough to replace the trained teachers who were leaving the profession . |
| 29 | Teachers were leaving the profession in growing numbers because of poor pay and conditions , especially in country areas . |
| 30 | Of the spectator , Dooley said he stood between the man and the referee as the teams were leaving the pitch . |