Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [coord] leave " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they wrote out a ticket 30-year-old Pere Costa smashed the car 's windows , doused it in petrol and set it on fire before walking home yesterday and leaving the police to deal with the blaze . |
| 2 | It bounced back hard and left the pillar splashed with paint and some of the trim as Carson fishtailed the Mercedes out into the road and away from the house . |
| 3 | She rang a bell to be let out again and left him without a backward glance . |
| 4 | Other selective forces may have operated quite recently and left a strong memory or image in the structure of the population 's genetics . |
| 5 | They also recovered more quickly and left the hospital on the day following the operation . |
| 6 | Henry Erskine once remarked of a Scottish judge and freeholder that ‘ he was first my enemy , when I came into power he was my great friend , when I went out he turned cool again & left off cultivating me , in that state we now remain , but I make no doubts were I in again , I should have him back again' . |
| 7 | Next morning , Dot was surprised when Gloria got up early and left for the Housing Applicant Office the same time as she went to school . |
| 8 | He walked away then and left Artemis trying to puzzle out what her father meant by putting her mother in the past tense . |
| 9 | So he has to go back home and leave her and in telling her of course he breaks her heart . |
| 10 | Jerking the trigger instead of squeezing it with a steady pressure , meant the gun muzzle being pulled slightly down and left for the first shot . |
| 11 | Leeds on the other hand , go all out and leave a lot of space behind them . |
| 12 | He went quickly downstairs and left a note for his mother saying that he could n't sleep and had gone out for an early morning bike ride . |
| 13 | They 've just gone off somewhere and left it behind . |
| 14 | She went out then and left me alone . |
| 15 | When she was here they 'd go out late and leave him then too . |
| 16 | She whirled round then and left the room , banging the door behind her , ignoring his cry of her name . |
| 17 | Whoever used it did so rarely and left few traces . |
| 18 | ‘ But there is no need to make that kind of mistake , ’ he said rather obscurely and left the room with a springy step . |
| 19 | This has the effect of tipping your centre of gravity enough to sidle round the beast and gain the undercut flake that runs tantalisingly up and left before fizzling out in the centre of the slab . |
| 20 | Cotton wool fulfils these criteria ; paper tissues ( which disintegrate more easily and leave " bits " ) do not . |