Example sentences of "him to leave " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salim states that he was having a rough time , and was tired and suspicious of Yvette : he does not say that a tribal god commanded him to leave her . |
| 2 | The modes which he adopted were such as to licence elisions and lacunae , to enable him to leave out bits of his life — a procedure which would seem to be connected with his scepticism about what can be known about people by biographers . |
| 3 | It was a further example of Peking 's present heavy-handed approach towards Hong Kong , and stemmed from the colonial government 's decision not to return swimmer Yang Yang to China last week , but to allow him to leave for asylum in the United States . |
| 4 | He had been an army officer once and there had been trouble that caused him to leave the army . |
| 5 | In the case of Professor Fang Lizhi , the dissident leader who is still holed up in the US embassy in Beijing , Mr Bush has been unable to say when or whether the Chinese may allow him to leave for a third country , as reportedly urged by Mr Scowcroft . |
| 6 | The fear of a ‘ few stern five minutes ’ with his father , who wanted him to leave Battersea Grammar School for the neighbouring public school St. Paul 's , and had arranged for him to have special lessons in Latin verse and in Greek , kept him steadily at school work , although he knew he ‘ could do better at lessons if I wished ’ . |
| 7 | Mr Sunderland himself had driven her home in his car , and she had begged him to leave her at the gate so as not to alarm her family . |
| 8 | Election Comment : Never forget the damage Labour did Ambrose Evans-Pritchard recalls the chaos of the 1970s that led him to leave the country |
| 9 | Soon the day came for him to leave for school . |
| 10 | He knew the Headmaster would not allow him to leave the school , not even in his good mood . |
| 11 | I hope you wo n't catch cold , ’ she said , encouraging him to leave . |
| 12 | Of course being nervous he often drank a little too much , so that when he finally looked up at the end of the night it would be with something like desperation , a fear that no one was going to ask him to leave with them ; but the way he looked at you also meant that you knew he would never say no , if you did ask . |
| 13 | Herbert was more politically conscious than John , and is said to have urged him to leave South Africa because he foresaw trouble in future . |
| 14 | I felt responsible because I encouraged him to be in the group in the first place , I persuaded him to stay when he wanted to go and yet in the end we asked him to leave , ’ says Gedge . |
| 15 | My father , by his own efforts , got into the commissioned classes , but lack of a private income forced him to leave his chosen regiment and find a less fashionable , less expensive one . |
| 16 | It was time for him to leave as well . |
| 17 | When he again tried to speak to her at her friend 's home where she was staying , Mary called the police and they persuaded him to leave . |
| 18 | When he did , with a flustered Lady Agnes in tow , Corbett abruptly told him to leave and asked Agnes to sit on the crude bench opposite him . |
| 19 | At Weston-super-Mare the stall proprietor asked him to leave because he was winning too much . |
| 20 | And I did n't want him to leave , because I loved him so much . |
| 21 | Brian Hillier , former chairman of Swindon Town , had his 12-month sentence halved , allowing him to leave prison immediately . |
| 22 | The violent scene ended with his father telling him to leave the house , ‘ so decidedly that I actually left the same day . ’ |
| 23 | Recently he had begun to suspect they would like him to leave and , if they could have been sure of finding a substitute fourth , would have asked him to do so . |
| 24 | There would be no more hinting now that they would like him to leave . |
| 25 | I was so offended I asked him to leave me alone . |
| 26 | Masklin thought : if Dorcas were here , we 'd never get him to leave . |
| 27 | Angalo 's here somewhere , and we want him to leave . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The more likely explanation is that she was pressurising him to leave your daughter to marry her . |
| 30 | Hari looked down at Craig 's bowed shoulders , she could n't ask him to leave not now . |