Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [adv] leave " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an unsigned editorial it tried to explain it by saying that there were too many explicit photographs of homosexual acts in the book ( Mapplethorpe takes pictures of oral sex , of a man pissing in the mouth of his partner and of men buggering each other in various ways , including with a fist ) , and that the authors had therefore not left enough space for his more restful images , such as his ‘ superb studies of people and flowers ’ , which the author of the editorial obviously sees as representing Mapplethorpe 's angelic side . |
| 2 | The term justified means that the text lines up down both left and right margins , just like in a book . |
| 3 | When they returned , having taken in a fair part of Sutherland , they swore that their feet had never once left Ross-shire soil . |
| 4 | Given the reluctance of some courts to convict on forensic evidence and the fact that terrorists do not usually leave a signed visiting card at the scene of the crime , will it not become more and more difficult to obtain convictions ? |
| 5 | This task is an important one because of the enormous amounts of program in the hands of organizations whose original writers have long since left without leaving any description of what they had done . |
| 6 | But with the growing ferocity of the Delhi heat it became increasingly easy to find excuses to put off ever leaving the house at all . |
| 7 | A subsequent ramp built on to a fire exit out of one of the rooms was better , though the aforementioned student had long since left . |
| 8 | Nest-bound birds pedal frantically away leaving their entire existence to the destiny of fate . |
| 9 | Road bends right then left , then passes small pine wood . |
| 10 | The man had plainly not left British shores and London itself was worlds apart from where he came from . |
| 11 | Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement . |
| 12 | It was back to show business , as if the scandal had ever really left it . |
| 13 | Dorigo ran down inside left 30–40 yards unchallenged , hit a through ball which Wallace ran across from right centre onto . |
| 14 | According to Radio Ukraine , 3,500 officers not taking the oath had already voluntarily left the service and settled in Ukraine . |
| 15 | If the kite turns either way left or right , then increase the pull on the opposite side , right for turning to the right and left for a left turn . |
| 16 | He has a wife and children and most men do n't usually leave their wives , do they ? ’ |
| 17 | He suddenly felt horribly drunk , but his wits had not altogether left him and he had a nasty inkling that his speech was not to the point . |
| 18 | Shortly before five o'clock the sepoy cavalry made an attack near the Cutcherry but fortunately the men had not yet left their positions at the rampart . |
| 19 | After two laps Grandon fell back slightly leaving Lyons and Murray to forge ahead with Murray seeming set for his first victory in the province . |
| 20 | Sean 's dad did not even leave his seat because he was unprepared to do anything about this problem , but he knew that he should do something about it . |
| 21 | These ministers had mostly either left the west of Scotland because they could not reconcile their consciences to episcopacy when it was restored there , or had come to Ulster to evangelise and serve the Scots settlers . |
| 22 | Thrift does not often leave her side . |
| 23 | Traders at Goldmans Sachs new London headquarters need no longer leave their desks for a minute thanks to a new system devised by CCG . |
| 24 | Misson , in his commentary on the English funeral , tells us what happened next , and why : ‘ They let it [ the corpse ] lye three of four Days … which Time they allow , as well to give the dead Person an Opportunity of Coming to Life again , if his Soul has not quite left his Body , as to prepare Mourning , and the Ceremonies of the Funeral . ’ |
| 25 | They let it lye three or four days in this Condition ; which Time they allowe , as well to give the dead Person an Opportunity of Coming to Life again , if his Soul has not quite left his Body , as to prepare Mourning , and the Ceremonies of the Funerall . |
| 26 | A coronary thrombosis does n't exactly leave a guy feeling perky ! ’ |
| 27 | Eliot had not altogether left behind his earlier anthropological interests . |