Example sentences of "leave [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you leave him/her with a complete stranger ? |
| 2 | Do n't rush in with the word before he/she has had time to think , but do n't leave him/her struggling . |
| 3 | ’ I 'll not leave thee , thou lone one , to pine on the stem , |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll not leave thee to freeze , ’ she said . |
| 5 | Did you leave them there on the verge ? he asked me . |
| 6 | Within days of arriving they held a press conference , on the understanding that the press would thereafter leave them alone , and it was the most informal such occasion anyone can remember . |
| 7 | Please do n't leave them to the last minute . |
| 8 | Please do n't leave them to the last minute . |
| 9 | Please do n't leave them to the last minute . |
| 10 | Please do n't leave them to the last minute . |
| 11 | Please do n't leave them to the last minute . |
| 12 | This would leave them free to ignore the non-statutory takeover code and Stock Exchange listing rules . |
| 13 | ‘ Charles , we might leave them to it shortly , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 14 | You could leave them behind so much more easily , to get on with the present , if you knew that some day you were going to return . |
| 15 | ‘ She did not leave them to me , so nobody shall have them . ’ |
| 16 | There are few children who do not experience the death of a much-loved grandparent or pet when they are quite young , and yet so often they are excluded from all the changes that go on at the time of a grandparent 's death , as though in some way this will leave them unaffected . |
| 17 | Should we help blues singers to find a wider audience , outside the coloured quarters of Southern towns , or should we leave them where they are , that the blues may thrive ? |
| 18 | They all seemed pleased , as if I belonged ; but I knew I would leave them again before summer , would walk out of the brightly lit play , and go back to the shadows and solitude of fiction . |
| 19 | ‘ So they are bitter about proposals which could leave them without a future . |
| 20 | And that was about Forest 's contribution to an afternoon when they were content to file back and hope that United 's desire to win the trophy with a flourish might leave them vulnerable . |
| 21 | On the north side of the bridge the Canal widens into a beautiful open stretch , lost on the far bank in a dense growth of reeds and sedges , a grand place for anglers and bird watchers — if the motorists and canal travellers would leave them in peace . |
| 22 | Certainly neither the KGB nor the GRU are going to stop spying , for that would leave them as exposed to criticism as if the CIA suddenly stopped spying on Russia . |
| 23 | The rent has been paid until the twentieth of this month ; we shall leave them as they are until then . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You will leave them for longer than that , if I tell you , ’ Bragg said brusquely . |
| 25 | ‘ So why did you leave them ? ’ |
| 26 | She was stuck there with the bags , she could n't leave them to go and pick the child up . |
| 27 | She said they did everything in teams , for the honour , and what was the good of that , when she could leave them all standing with one arm tied behind her back ? |
| 28 | You ca n't just leave them ! ’ |
| 29 | And how do we rescue particular places , or should we leave them to decay ? |
| 30 | Bills would arrive and I 'd just leave them unopened , frightened of what they 'd say . |