Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [adv] leave " in BNC.

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1 He saw her safely checked in and then left her , his last words calculated to wound .
2 She started to think that she had a vocation for taking heroic decisions , but it was really nothing more sustaining than a rabid kind of recklessness that erupted suddenly and then left her feeling bleak and inept .
3 It opens with the eponymous party in progress ; Edward Chamberlayne is the sole host since his wife , Lavinia , has suddenly and unaccountably left him .
4 The building was boarded up and effectively left to decay .
5 And in the morning she would pack up and quietly leave , would never see this disturbing family again .
6 I tossed the cassette to Rickie who , turning away and thus leaving his blind eye facing me , fumbled the catch .
7 A row of houses , which were bought up and then left empty by Robert Maxwell are to be sold again .
8 oh I see so what 's today Thursday , he 's only got today and tomorrow left has n't he for skiing
9 And er , she said I didnae worry you and er he turned round and just leave it there , so I think it he 's coming to get it Saturday .
10 I thought that out of sight was out of mind and put my handbag inside a shopping bag , which I zipped up and then left in my shopping trolley .
11 How typical it is of British government that the barrage dream should be allowed to dribble on and then left to fizzle out .
12 The government view has been that the way towards prosperity is for the state to do less and so leave room for the private sector to expand .
13 The reason is that physically removing a weed , especially a perennial , is quite final , while one hoed out and simply left on the surface can easily root in again , especially in wet weather .
14 The broomstick bounded forward and soon left the rooks behind .
15 As IBM Corp steps up involuntary lay-offs , it is also lowering the ceiling on payments and benefits for employees in the US that are laid off or voluntarily leave the company .
16 Turn right and then left onto a track .
17 She wished they would go away and just leave her alone .
18 If she 's gon na go off and just leave you it 's , it 's all extra responsibility int it ?
19 Emerge into next field , where go forward and slightly left , passing to right of projecting corner of hedge coming down from left to take stile at corner of field into allotments .
20 ‘ Gut für Kinder , ’ he said unconvincingly and hurriedly left the cell .
21 Issuing an imperative ultimatum , which had given her no room for manoeuvre , and with which he must have known she could n't possibly have agreed , he had abruptly and swiftly left the country .
22 After 1/4 mile , leave woods by gate and immediately keep left over gate beside stile as waymarked , bearing ahead and slightly left across open area to waymarked stile into woodland .
23 Having been together for ten years , disbanding twice and then leaving prolific label 4AD , ME went to America to chance it lucky .
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