Example sentences of "not leave him " in BNC.

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1 The worst of being in a job which the world regarded as not the right place for him was that the world would not leave him alone .
2 At Bethel , the place of the vision of the stairway to heaven , God promised him that he would be with him , that he would keep him wherever he went , that he would bring him back to the Land , and would not leave him .
3 Ironically , Gallacher 's capacity for tragedy did not leave him for long ; at the end of the game he was told his sister-in-law had died in Scotland , and as the tartan army led a ragtime jazz-band through the streets of London , Hughie Gallacher was on his way to the funeral .
4 The sense of urgency , of anger , of relentless pursuit , did not leave him but he felt once more the bitterness of inadequacy , the realisation that the task he had undertaken was beyond his personal power .
5 But they would not leave him alone .
6 But the image of Dinah would not leave him , and was strengthened by the times he visited the theatre and saw her in the flesh .
7 He 's mad , he 's mad , Ruth thought ; but she dared not leave him .
8 She would not , could not leave him for this boy !
9 He recalled he had suffered a terrible nightmare ; so vivid that even when his eyes were open and he was screaming for his mammy , the nightmare would not leave him .
10 I could not leave him now .
11 This world would not leave him alone , it seemed .
12 Their nerve was a match for his ; they had most of them served him several years , for his men did not leave him .
13 He had not , however , lost sight of the Church 's Christian mission to evangelize and declare the faith and his early pre-occupation with pastoral duties and the care of souls did not leave him .
14 Ooh better not leave him in the kitchen or the dogs 'll eat him
15 Dostoevsky 's own attempt to suggest how he disposes his reader in relation to these events goes as follows : ‘ Narration by the author , a sort of invisible but omniscient being who nevertheless does n't leave him [ meaning ‘ his hero'$ for a moment …
16 ‘ You ca n't leave him up there all on his own . ’
17 Paralysed in its grip , she kept telling herself , over and over again , that she must n't leave him to drown : whatever Bella had said to her , however much she herself hated him , there was no point in pretending to herself that she could abandon anyone , not even him , to die .
18 They wo n't leave him alone .
19 ‘ You ca n't leave him in the dark like that , ’ Tina exploded indignantly .
20 He was right , but she could n't leave him like this .
21 But I could n't leave him like that , his back and legs bare .
22 Alice had said : ‘ It 's a pity your husband did n't leave him to drown and save himself , but I suppose that on the spur of the moment he did n't weigh up the relative value of a useful teaching career and pimpled stupidity . ’
23 ‘ We ca n't leave him . ’
24 IF your husband or boy-friend forgets your birthday do n't leave him … it may be biological .
25 ‘ No , we would n't leave him in some Beirut jail .
26 ‘ I could n't leave him , Belle .
27 ‘ I ca n't leave him now .
28 I ca n't leave him , David . ’
29 ‘ He 's lucky we did n't leave him in the car . ’
30 ‘ You ca n't leave him behind .
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