Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adv] leave " in BNC.
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| 1 | A curl broke to my right and almost engulfed me , so I swung even further left and shuffled back on the board to keep from pearling . |
| 2 | It was half past ten in the morning , twenty-four hours after arriving in Reggane and I had not yet left . |
| 3 | That was confidence — the first man to carry his own food and water across the Sahara , and I had not even left the main road yet . |
| 4 | It brought back to me the reality of the life I had so abruptly left behind : I had somehow assumed it would fade out of existence when I wanted , fade back in when convenient , unchanged . |
| 5 | I had very reluctantly to leave Stratford after an idyllic weekend . |
| 6 | This was the moment for me to escape , but I had only just left the sitting-room and reached the hall , when Mr Rochester appeared through another door . |
| 7 | I 've hardly ever left London . |
| 8 | It had all been a dream ; perhaps she 'd never even left it . |
| 9 | She nodded grimly then left the room . |
| 10 | Er y you do n't actually leave go of the cord straight away . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's what I keep asking myself — because she did n't just leave . |
| 12 | I 'm quite sure that when she said that , come see a man that told me everything I did , she did n't just leave it there , but she 'd have put such words as and he did n't condemn me he did n't berate me he did n't point a judgemental finger at me , but he loved me ! |
| 13 | ‘ She did n't actually leave anything , but she had a parcel with her . ’ |
| 14 | Three years ago she had just recently left college , one of thousands of graduates looking for a job . |
| 15 | She had long since left the path and he had been travelling across rough land for some time — there was a high trail of dust behind the vehicle . |
| 16 | His daughter 's latest love — and why she had so precipitately left him , he was about to find out . |
| 17 | You do n't reach Downing Street by pretending you 've travelled the road to Damascus when you have n't even left home . ’ |
| 18 | She added : You do n't reach Downing Street by pretending you 've travelled the road to Damascus when you have n't even left home . ’ |
| 19 | We strolled out together leaving the indignant Sally to pick up her heaps of black silk . |
| 20 | ‘ If there 's any problems we do n't just leave it to one member of staff , we try to sort it out together . |
| 21 | As a family , therefore , we have perfectly happily left what little savings we could scrape together over the last 20 years or so with the Woolwich Building Society , whose efficiency and ethics we have never had any reason to doubt . |
| 22 | They did not even leave the building . |
| 23 | they do n't just leave it , they 'll go and do it , you know ? |
| 24 | I do nt know why they do nt just leave an outside broadcast team with them on a permanent basis . |
| 25 | This once powerful man was so implanted in their lives that they had never really left Great Meadow , in spite of jobs and marriages and children and houses of their own in Dublin and London . |
| 26 | In the sense of their access to political power it was not so much a case that women were ‘ returned ’ to the family since they had never really left it to go out to get power — rather they had traditionally exercised power , if at all , by virtue of their familial positions and as the public and private spheres were separated , women were left behind . |
| 27 | Plans to draw up registers of potentially contaminated land are already being fiercely debated — although they have n't even left the drawing board yet . |
| 28 | Even though they may have worked and set up home separately , they have never quite left the role of dependent daughter . |
| 29 | She is a glamorous 40-year-old , he has only just left school . |
| 30 | His attention returns to literature ( if it had ever really left it ) and to the role of the self in relation to discursive contexts . |