Example sentences of "[adv] leave [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 just enough to leave me with a strange sense
2 She wondered if Ethel would relent and change her back , or whether she might be really wicked enough to leave her as a frog , for ever .
3 Twice he needed to have attention from a doctor on the course but battled on to record a four under par 66 which was good enough to leave him in a tie for 9th place , nine shots behind the winner , Eduardo Romero from the Argentine .
4 There is still a feeling , and rightly so , that every firm owes some responsibility to its members and their dependants in this respect and that it is not enough to leave it to the individual partner to make his own arrangements .
5 Unfortunately , there is no real solution to these difficulties and again we can only leave it to the reader to arrive at his or her own conclusion on the basis of the material presented .
6 We are now hearing that our outlook is so bad that we had better leave it to an independent central bank to decide the important aspects of our future .
7 Even if we were to obtain substantial concessions and eliminate all our strategic nuclear weapons , we could not eliminate all theirs , so we would merely leave them with a residual capability which would be overwhelming and a continual menace to ourselves .
8 ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished .
9 Somebody had obviously left it in the cubicle .
10 ‘ A bit stiff leaving me in the lead bucket . ’
11 Other stories about Dic , Little Dick the Carpenter — how he never got to a rugby match because there were too many pubs on the way , how he was burnt all over in a pit explosion , wrapped in bandages so that only his eyes and nostrils showed through — and bathed slowly back to health by his daughters who poured olive oil over him all the time , how he took his daughter Cecilia ( Cis ) to eisteddfods because he loved to hear her sing but how she pleaded with him ‘ not to stop anywhere and not to leave her in the hall ’ .
12 But he could n't just leave her at the station .
13 ‘ When instinct tells me a dog would be better off with me than people who might just leave it on the motorway , I have to bite my tongue , but I 'm noted for being blunt .
14 I should n't just leave it on the floor look cos we sha n't find it again and then when the hoover tries to pick it up it will have a fit .
15 Do n't just leave it to the media and politicians to protest — get up and do it yourself .
16 Do n't just leave it to the marketing people .
17 I would just leave it for a while
18 Let's just leave it for the moment , let's just leave it for the moment .
19 Let's just leave it for the moment , let's just leave it for the moment .
20 In the meanwhile , if we 're going to use the B/R grant pretty soon , can I just leave it in the current account ?
21 Why did n't you just leave it in the erm inside the front player ?
22 An impromptu performance might just leave you in a heap !
23 Ooh better not leave him in the kitchen or the dogs 'll eat him
24 Does he agree that it is now essential that he withdraw the Asylum Bill now under consideration and instead institute a proper system of legal appeal that gives automatic rights of appeal to political asylum seekers and does not leave them at the mercy of his erroneous decisions ?
25 At £26 or so a square yard , Cottage Collection may not leave you with a lot to spend on lavish celebrations .
26 AT £26 OR SO A SQUARE YARD , COTTAGE COLLECTION MAY NOT LEAVE YOU WITH A LOT TO SPEND ON LAVISH CELEBRATIONS .
27 We would not leave it to the discretion of the doctors but , acting on the best medical advice , set down what drugs could be prescribed and those that could not .
28 We can not leave it to the of individual members , that would produce chaos and could leave to destructive manoeuvring .
29 You add the wine , and mix it with the eggs and cheese , pour the mixture into a flameproof casserole and put it to cook immediately , but you do not leave it for an instant : you stir ceaselessly until you have a homogenous cream , and you serve it sizzling in the recipient in which it has cooked . "
30 Also , the other reason that I did not leave it in the centre of the airfield was that the flares , the gooseneck flares ( a device with paraffin and a sort of rough wick ) , were laid out for night flying .
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