Example sentences of "[conj] leave [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right thing is for the two counties to get together and to make a joint decision and , if necessary , to have a public inquiry or to leave it to the Minister to call the scheme in if he is not satisfied . |
| 2 | But at home you might put an open packet on a bench in the greenhouse or spill some seeds , or leave them on the grass while you run to answer the phone . |
| 3 | In the summer months do n't shut your plants in a hot car or leave them in the sun while they are waiting to be loaded . |
| 4 | Or leave them in the trolley . |
| 5 | Within a few months of its publication the government had launched a huge inquiry into pensions which was to produce a series of changes — including the right of employees changing jobs to either take a pension with them , or leave it with the previous employer and have it uprated in line with the retail price index up to a maximum of 5 per cent . |
| 6 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |
| 7 | Everything goes fine until , having chosen the number of blend steps ( or leaving it at the default number ) , I click on OK . |
| 8 | Not only is he generally responsible for the system but he also receives all appeals from refusals of permission , and has the power to call in any application for decision by himself rather than leave it with the district council . |
| 9 | Although it may be beneficial to address this point at this stage rather than leave it to the flotation , the alternative argument is that such matters can only be decided at the time of flotation when the parties are better able to assess what is commercially necessary to achieve an optimum result . |
| 10 | Again she heard the boys ' warm approving voices , voices that left her outside the heat of that dangerous moment . |
| 11 | The challengers have also all adopted a slightly different approach to PageMaker in that they have provided many of the creation tools within the desktop publishing program rather than leaving them to the more specialised stand-alone products . |
| 12 | I keep everything loose in glass jars ( you can wash and save any that you buy ) , which prolongs their life , rather than leaving them in the packets . |
| 13 | Worried that leaving it in the basket might suggest that she had been up to no good , the girl ran downstairs starkers with her boyfriend in hot pursuit , playfully offering to help . |
| 14 | For the crew it 's the end of three hard days and nights , but at least they can now sit back and leave it to the performers . |
| 15 | If you go out and switch her light off and leave her in the room . |
| 16 | What Odysseus hears is without consequence for him ; he is able only to nod his head as a sign to be set free from his bonds ; but it is too late ; his men , who do not listen , know only the song 's danger but nothing of its beauty , and leave him at the mast to save him and themselves . |
| 17 | ( Dr Kavanagh is inclined to scatter quotations and leave them to the imgination . ) |
| 18 | And leave them on the front . |
| 19 | and leave them on the rack and |
| 20 | I just do all my glasses first , and leave them on the draining board |
| 21 | 6 assorted jars of chutney , unused ( I do n't know about you but I seem to accumulate chutney , pickles , lemon curd , etc. , faster than I can demolish it and rather than throw it away when useless , I 'd prefer to give it a good home — the best way of all is to sneak the jars into the National Trust shop at your local Hall or Towers and leave them among the chutneys already there ) |
| 22 | Despite the size of the factory , there were no nursery facilities and mothers were sometimes forced to bring in their young children and leave them in the cloakrooms all day . |
| 23 | Remove the pan from the heat and leave them in the water for about 15 minutes . |
| 24 | This can clear the air and leave everyone with the determination to cope . |
| 25 | He 'd just rob us and tie us up and leave us for the wolves , I expect . ’ |
| 26 | You can not turn your back on this issue , and leave us with the responsibility ’ . ’ |
| 27 | As most of us have to work to earn a living , the short winter days limit our riding considerably and leave us with the choice of riding before or after work in the dark or only at weekends , unless you are lucky enough to have access to an indoor school . |
| 28 | It 's not the fat cats we got ta take notice of , who steal the cream and leave us with the sil sour milk even . |
| 29 | Mr. Newman has urged us to treat the Derbyshire County Council as the public authority and leave it to the court in each individual libel action to undertake the balancing exercise of the competing interests . |
| 30 | You only need to type in a close approximation of the word and leave it to the spell-checker to sort out . |