Example sentences of "[pron] leave [pers pn] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , well did I leave you one of them catalogues with all the good tools ? |
| 2 | My favourite cartoon is of a businessman standing in Wall Street selling boxes of matches and around his neck is a placard which says : ‘ I left it all to expert advice . ’ |
| 3 | I left it all with the guy . " |
| 4 | Were you afraid when I left you alone with Mason ? ’ |
| 5 | I left you twenty out the erm joint account and that 's all really and |
| 6 | Durham revival ended with an 18–12 defeat at home to which left them third from the bottom of Division Four North . |
| 7 | Walter Geikie was born on 9th November 1795 in Edinburgh , the eldest son of Archibald Geikie , a pharmacist by occupation but a philosopher by inclination , and when still only two years old , contracted a ‘ brain fever ’ ( probably meningitis ) which left him deaf for life . |
| 8 | Matthew suffered from Severe Combined Deficiency Syndrome , which left him open to any infection . |
| 9 | In 1922 he left his Worcester parish to run the church of St Edmund King and Martyr in Lombard Street in the City of London , a non-parochial cure , which left him free for his major postwar work as ‘ messenger ’ of the Industrial Christian Fellowship , which had come into being in 1920 as a result of the amalgamation of the Christian Social Union and the Navvy Mission Society . |
| 10 | This ‘ mistake ’ is itself the result of a failure to recognize the ontological status of the novel , i.e. the irreducible indeterminacy which leaves it open to multiple interpretations . |
| 11 | There are in fact several different categories of territorial cleavage to which the term has been applied , but the major development by Hechter on Pizzorno 's line is the increased emphasis on the penetration of the periphery by the centre ; the periphery is seen as dependent in the sense that industrialisation takes place in a manner which leaves it dependent on the centre for investment and management control . |
| 12 | ‘ Ca n't you leave me alone for one stupid minute ? ’ |
| 13 | You use the same kind of glass , you put the same amount of ice in each glass and you leave them both in the same place ( so that they are both at the same temperature ) . |
| 14 | It turns itself off if you leave it untouched for five minutes , a feature sadly lacking on the GameBoy . |
| 15 | You leave it tidy for when you come back . ’ |
| 16 | If it 's worth more than a hundred and fifty thousand pounds between you at the moment and you leave it all to your surviving spouse then when he or she dies in due course and if those figures have n't altered they 'll be inheritance tax to pay . |
| 17 | So she left it all to herself and tried to carry on but it was too much for her . |
| 18 | Although how we were supposed to be able to afford to rebuild , I had no idea , but whenever I queried anything he would just laugh and tell me to leave it all to him . ’ |
| 19 | she does , the works on the men , and we leave it all to Magda . |
| 20 | Cause if we leave it all till the weekend we do n't do it . |
| 21 | We left him two for his supper . |
| 22 | She had sort of expected him to leave it all to herself . |
| 23 | When I got back to the cell the boys were keen to hear everything , but , tactfully , they left me alone to be with my thoughts . |
| 24 | Instead , they left me alone in a small boat in the middle of the ocean , with only enough food for a few days , while they sailed away . |
| 25 | They left him gilded in an anteroom , |
| 26 | She hinted that she could be of more help to them than her brother , provided that they left him alone in his present state of health . |
| 27 | They left her alone with a great heavy belt strapped round her belly pressing her and making green and yellow lights wink on the huge machine by the bed , and she could n't move and her back was aching and they put a tube into her wrist and she could n't move and she began to panic . |
| 28 | ‘ They left her alone after a bit . |
| 29 | They left it all to him . |
| 30 | The laws legalising homosexuality were a typical example of benign British hypocrisy , but they left us unprepared for much of the debate that would follow a then unforeseeable epidemic . |