Example sentences of "[pron] had leave for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was with deep regret that I had to leave for home later that evening . |
| 2 | I had left for Kingston largely dismissive of the anxieties expressed by family and friends , telling them that , after all , women have babies all over the world . |
| 3 | In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London . |
| 4 | Alice went up to the second floor in the lift , let herself into the flat and read , for the ninth or tenth time , the letter she had left for Mike . |
| 5 | A phone call made just before midnight to St Aldate 's Police Station had been relayed to the murder scene at Parson 's Pleasure : Mrs Marion Kemp , of 6 Cherwell Lodge , had reported that her husband , who had left for London early that morning , had still not arrived back home ; that such an occurrence was quite unprecedented , and that she was beginning ( had long begun ! ) to feel a little ( a whole lot ! ) worried about him . |
| 6 | Police chief Amarjeet Singh Samra said the most wanted people were six brothers who had left for Dubai on Thursday and Friday , just before the explosions . |
| 7 | They had been sent on from Sydney by their nephew Henry , who had left for Australia a few weeks earlier to live with his uncle , Stephen Coxen , at Yarrundi in New South Wales . |
| 8 | At the bar of the Globe Inn talk between the landlord and a Mr Woodhouse of Stowey turned very quickly to the subject of ‘ those Rascalls from Alfoxden ’ and of John Thelwall , who had left for Bristol two weeks earlier . |
| 9 | You had to leave for work at 8.25 . |
| 10 | So , sadly , we had to leave for Siren last November . |
| 11 | Then suddenly we had to leave for London , so I suppose the call-up people did n't know where I was . |
| 12 | When Sir Henry joined us , Holmes told him that we had to leave for London immediately after breakfast . |
| 13 | Boswell employs over a thousand words to describe the Monboddo visit , which began around mid-day , and ended when they had to leave for Aberdeen which they did not reach until late that night . |
| 14 | They had four days together before they had to leave for Estoril and the pre-race qualifying sessions , and by the end of them Kate had to admit that the naïve dreams she 'd had of becoming irresistible to this man were exactly that , and extremely unrealistic into the bargain . |
| 15 | ‘ General Francis and Corporal Wix have been hoping you 'd be back before they had to leave for London . ’ |
| 16 | WIMBLEDON 'S Crazy Gang are returning to Plough Lane , the happy hunting ground they had to leave for safety reasons two years ago . |
| 17 | She thought of the moment a few hours earlier , before they had left for dinner , when he had taken her in his arms . |
| 18 | It worries Thailand that the bombers were carrying air tickets to take them back to Bangkok , which they had left for Manila in December . |
| 19 | Someone sent somebody out to kill two hens ; a local gentleman , knowing the lie of the land , sent his servant to the inn with rum and sugar and an apology for not knowing of their arrival in sufficient time to put them up , and he had to leave for Inverness at the crack of dawn ; Boswell still had some bread despite the amount he had doled out to the Macraes . |
| 20 | I had n't known him when he had left for Britain , but when I saw him I somehow knew that he was my father . |
| 21 | After he had left for work I found it , unmolested , under his coffee cup . |
| 22 | I had felt it for my mother before my father left when she would intercept his post , putting certain violet-scented envelopes into the pocket of her dress and steaming them open in the kitchen after he had left for work . |
| 23 | — Anything unusual about his manner when he had left for work on the morning of the 24th ? — Not that she had noted . |