Example sentences of "[noun] as [pers pn] leave the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Connon had enough of himself left to give Jenny a sardonically accusing glance as he left the room with the doctor . |
| 2 | She followed them meekly , avoiding Ling 's watchful eyes as she left the room , although she was well aware of his wide grin . |
| 3 | William insisted on accompanying Hari as she left the house and made her way towards the docks . |
| 4 | Lord Justice Higgins ' widow , Bridget , daughters , Mary , Lucy and Cait , and sons John and Matthew , led the cortege as it left the church for burial at Milltown Cemetery in Magherafelt . |
| 5 | Theda gave it up , calling to Hector as she left the room . |
| 6 | The company has devised a system of recording non-copyright material , like discordant brass band music or language tuition , on the bulk rolls of tape as they leave the magnetic coating bath . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're done , ’ Thomas exclaimed in disgust as he left the Cabinet room . |
| 8 | She realised that he had n't ever responded to her first mildly scolding words as they left the Hamiltons ' . |
| 9 | Ward took the wheel as we left the hotel , but instead of heading south , he turned north , and when Iris Sunderby remonstrated with him , all he said was , ‘ Chanchán . |
| 10 | Bellamy exchanged wild shots with MacLane as we left the captain in the middle of the road . |
| 11 | He rested his arm lightly along her shoulders as they left the restaurant , and she forced herself to wait a decent interval before ducking lightly away from him , hating the insidious way his touch seemed to affect her . |
| 12 | An 81-year-old woman who collapsed two hours after a robber grabbed her handbag as she left the British Legion Club in Clapham , south London , was on a life-support machine at St Thomas 's Hospital yesterday with a suspected blood clot on the brain . |
| 13 | Which means , Brother Athelstan , that our final remark to Sir Richard as we left the Springall house hit home . |
| 14 | I join the column as it leaves the wooded area and the Commandos continue the advance in file on both sides of a narrow road . |
| 15 | that a simple explanation for the explosion probably lies in the condenser , which cooled evaporating xylene as it left the reaction and was specially designed to accommodate up to 50 kg of deposited tetrachlorobenzene , without blocking . |
| 16 | It is of little use to remember the answer to an examination question as you leave the room , or to say later with head in hands , " But I knew it so well " , surprised at your ability to remember it now but your inability to recall it at the time when you most needed it . |
| 17 | The entrance to the Craigforth ice-house is half-way down the steps to the right as you leave the lower end of the tunnel from Craigforth House . |
| 18 | Stan 's voice came over the loudspeaker as we left the quay and headed sea wards . |
| 19 | It changed as the Dornier accelerated away from them , and took on a rhythmic throbbing as it left the ground . |
| 20 | In any case , if the bat is to receive any reasonable echo at all from a distant target , the out-going squeak as it leaves the bat must be very loud indeed , and the instrument that detects the echo , the ear , must be highly sensitive to very quiet sounds — the echoes . |
| 21 | He whooped for joy as he left the phone cubicle . |
| 22 | A parting sniff as she left the room gave the gentleman to understand that he had disappointed her . |
| 23 | The fellow was drunk and released the dogs as you left the palace . |
| 24 | DENIS EVANS , the Welsh Rugby Union secretary , has condemned the supporter who tried to trip David Campese as he left the pitch on Saturday . |
| 25 | It 's dark , cold and pouring with rain as I leave the office of E. and B. Productions where I 've been discussing the pantomime orchestra with Paul , the company musical director . |
| 26 | Irate fathers departed as meekly as doves tearful mothers raised a smile as they left the building . " |
| 27 | Rather than dropping his company 's commission bearing charge completely , he would have preferred to have reduced it and moved it from the front to the back end of his unit trusts — that is , charging investors as they leave the fund rather than as they enter . |
| 28 | Newall was flanked by two officers armed with semi-automatic rifles as he left the Moorish castle that serves as the Rock 's jail for the opening of extradition proceedings . |
| 29 | I was lucky in meeting a cab as I left the bank , and I went back to my anonymous room in Peel Square . |
| 30 | ‘ Each leaves for water as it leaves the nest , ’ Clare wrote of moorhen chicks . |