Example sentences of "[adv] leave [pers pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's just leave it for the moment , let's just leave it for the moment . |
| 2 | Let's just leave it for the moment , let's just leave it for the moment . |
| 3 | ( When he finally left us for the United States , he took these gifts back from me , with the excuse that as he had bought them in Berlin he wanted to show them to the dancer . |
| 4 | They scarcely left it for the next two weeks , their passion putting her dreams to shame . |
| 5 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
| 6 | Unexpected , this affected him strongly , indeed left him for the moment in a strange turmoil emotionally . |
| 7 | He pushed his bicycle up the hill from Wheatley station in the company of another new student who had a strangely similar background : of nonconformist origins , with his father an official of a nonconformist Church ; a young man who postponed his own confirmation into the Church of England because his parents might be hurt ; and who swung at the university from his very Protestant background into a sense of the devotional stature in Anglo-Catholicism , and into convictions which never left him for the rest of his life ; a graduate of Balliol College , by name Austin Farrer . |