Example sentences of "him to leave [art] " in BNC.

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1 Politely he asked him to leave a quote so he could discuss it with his wife .
2 He had been an army officer once and there had been trouble that caused him to leave the army .
3 Election Comment : Never forget the damage Labour did Ambrose Evans-Pritchard recalls the chaos of the 1970s that led him to leave the country
4 He knew the Headmaster would not allow him to leave the school , not even in his good mood .
5 The violent scene ended with his father telling him to leave the house , ‘ so decidedly that I actually left the same day . ’
6 When the young King was dying , probably of tuberculosis , the protector , Northumberland , persuaded him to leave the throne in his Will to his Protestant cousin Lady Jane Grey , Northumberland 's daughter-in-law , instead of to his Catholic half-sister Mary , as prescribed in the Act of Succession of Henry VIII 's reign .
7 Mary was outraged by these measures , and resisted Pole 's recall by forbidding him to leave the country , and refusing to receive either the papal nuncio bearing the letters of revocation or any replacement for the cardinal .
8 Joyce 's services to the cause were recognised by a paid appointment as West London Area Administrative Officer of the BUF , which enabled him to leave the Victoria Tutorial College and abandon his PhD thesis at King 's .
9 Another may come along for advice and you 'd tell him to leave the horse alone : ‘ But he looks all right !
10 He was ordained deacon in 1870 , and priest in 1872 , but in his first curacy he fell foul of both his vicar and his bishop for his heterodox beliefs ; the former asked him to leave the parish and the latter delayed his ordination .
11 In 1914 ill health forced him to leave the railway works , and he took up market gardening .
12 She thought suddenly that she had taken Dr Neil for granted , that she had not fully realised either his hard work or his dedication , and for the first time understood the impulse which had caused him to leave the cushioned life of a younger son of a good family and become an East End doctor instead .
13 He thought that he had heard the house door close : McAllister must have left for a stroll , or perhaps even a visit up West , and it would be safe for him to leave the surgery where he had been reading Mr H. G. Wells 's scientific romance The Time Machine , and return to the comfort of his armchair .
14 She then hesitated , waiting for him to leave the office so that she could speak to her father in private , but he made no move to do so .
15 She sent Silas a baleful glare , then , ignoring his question , she brushed past him to leave the room .
16 The Foreign Ministry announced on March 28 , 1990 , that it had accused a member of the Soviet trade mission of industrial espionage and had ordered him to leave the country .
17 Trovoada , a 54-year-old lawyer ( whose name was previously given as Trouvoada ) , served as Prime Minister from 1975 to 1979 , but was imprisoned for 21 months after a quarrel with Pinto da Costa , who subsequently allowed him to leave the country in 1981 .
18 The ambassadors of Canada , France , the United States and Venezuela then successfully intervened and persuaded the coup leaders not to kill Aristide but to allow him to leave the country , in order to prevent widespread bloodshed .
19 Certainly both the account in the Office of his later career and the remarks he let drop in his own writings point to a friction in his situation which ultimately led him to leave the Daltons to seek a quiet place elsewhere .
20 He did n't ask or tell him to leave the Apache alone .
21 My husband was a native New Yorker , and I could never get him to leave the Big Apple even for a holiday .
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