Example sentences of "leave the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no outside view of any sort and the only time they leave the cell is for weekend visits from relatives , bi-daily showers or for 45 minutes ' daily exercise . |
| 2 | Boil for ten minutes and then leave the pan to cool . |
| 3 | To dry beans , leave the mature pods on the plants as long as possible , then pull them up by the roots and hang them in the sun to complete drying . |
| 4 | I leave the weed in the pool untouched until the frogs have departed . |
| 5 | Use any damaged roots immediately and leave the rest to dry . |
| 6 | Too many pilots allow their glider to zoom up too steeply as they leave the ground . |
| 7 | Take off the coloured belt after you leave the area so that you wo n't have stewards chasing after you for it ! |
| 8 | These have only one centimetre of padding and leave the thumb free to fold in safely . |
| 9 | For this exercise you bend the elbows until your chin touches the floor , then shoot them out straight so that your upper body flies up and your hands leave the floor . |
| 10 | When it rains they huddle against the building , leave the objects on blankets or broken up cardboard boxes , only to return to selling when the rain stops . |
| 11 | Leave the instrument in a greenhouse containing well-watered plants on a sunny day for a few hours to get an idea of maximum deflection . |
| 12 | Hence the great cry has gone up : ‘ Leave the environment alone ! ’ |
| 13 | Teak oils leave the wood with a slight sheen ; Danish oil with a natural low lustre . |
| 14 | Leave the brush in the oil for several hours , or longer , and then remove it and squeeze out the oil and work the brush backwards and forwards over plain brown paper or the side of a clean carton . |
| 15 | Stavrogin s prodigal scattering of reasons does more than leave the question open . |
| 16 | My present feeling is that any one who can not feel the beauty of their melody had better confine his criticism to prose and leave the discussion of verse to those who understand something about it … . |
| 17 | When you have reached the lees , leave the pot on the table with the lid overturned or tilted to one side . |
| 18 | They ended with lines which leave the reader in no doubt as to her view of the condition : That wretch , if such a wretch there be Who hopes for happiness from thee , May search successfully as well For truth in whores and ease in hell . |
| 19 | ALL OF the options being considered for block vote reform leave the trade unions with either a majority or a veto . |
| 20 | Without border checks , traders may be tempted to claim exemption from VAT on goods ostensibly destined for export but which , in fact , never leave the country or are reimported . |
| 21 | Last night , he told Hungarian television , that he would go with the majority of party members , and leave the party if the majority so decided . |
| 22 | The paper admits that employment is the destination of ‘ only a minority ’ of those who leave the unemployment register after two years . |
| 23 | Despite his airforce fatigues ( he has a pilot 's licence ) and handlebar moustache ( he is a cult on the military base circuit ) his feet never leave the ground : but close your eyes and you 'd never know it . |
| 24 | If a net 1,400-1,500 underwriting members leave the market , Lloyd 's total membership will be reduced from its record high point of 33,532 at the beginning of last year to just over 30,000 . |
| 25 | A useful rule of documentaries is that re-creations of scenes which occurred before filming always leave the viewer feeling cheated . |
| 26 | And now I leave the scene . |
| 27 | But we can buttonhole anyone we please as they leave the chamber : a privilege akin to the London correspondents of Pravda or Izvestia being able to accost cabinet ministers in the members ' lobby of the Commons . |
| 28 | LABOUR 'S new arms policy was condemned by Tom King yesterday as ‘ an appalling shambles ’ which would cripple Britain 's conventional forces , scrub nuclear weapons and leave the country well and truly defenceless . |
| 29 | If you can not find wooden boxes , use large polythene bags for storage , but leave the bag tops open . |
| 30 | The big pitfall is the prospect of a currency loss if sterling declines still further , which can wipe out the benefit of interest rate savings and leave the borrower owing more debt than he borrowed in the first place . |