Example sentences of "leave [pron] [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked to leave his address on the answerphone ? |
| 2 | When staying one Long Vacation at a friend 's place , ‘ at Hom Lacey in Herefordshire ’ , he happened to leave his watch on the window-sill of his chamber . |
| 3 | It was a bit silly to leave your bag on the front seat though . |
| 4 | Indeed , in this stereotyped world many of us have a longing to do something which is artistically original , in some way to leave our mark on the musical scene . |
| 5 | Did Jordan leave his dummy on the floor ? |
| 6 | It was just as I was sitting down in the living room with my cup of coffee that I realised I 'd left my bag on the train . |
| 7 | This suspicion of parties has left its mark on the names of the right-wing parties in France : his successors ' party is called ‘ Rassemblement pour la République ’ , the word ‘ rassemblement ’ ( rally ) connecting a wide popular extra-parliamentary movement . |
| 8 | Junod , it will be recalled , proposed that the maternal uncle 's indulgent behaviour was to be explained by an earlier matrilineal ( or ‘ matri-archal ’ ) phase which had left its mark on the now formally patriarchal BaThonga . |
| 9 | So Hackney has left its mark on the history of madness . |
| 10 | He built out of that illusion a political cause which stirred the British electorate as it had not been stirred for decades and which has left its imprint on the Conservative Party and on British trade policy down to the present . |
| 11 | This section will be a brief summary of other influences which have left their mark on the drama education scene . |
| 12 | Roofing , after all , is as much an art as a science and centuries of artistic creativity have left their mark on the tile makers of the continent . |
| 13 | Who 's left their hat on the fire top ? |
| 14 | That her novels are not better known is due largely to her extreme modesty about her literary abilities ; but there is no doubt that her concise , deceptively light prose style , reliance on dialogue to carry the plot , and delight in satirical exaggeration influenced both Firbank and Evelyn Waugh [ q.v. ] , and that she has thus left her mark on the development of the twentieth-century novel . |
| 15 | While she drank her lemonade and ate her biscuits she told the old lady about Brownies and how she had left her bike on the edge of the wood . |
| 16 | She had left her handbag on the chair . |
| 17 | Even Wilbye did not disdain specific Italian models ; his ‘ Lady , your words do spite me ’ takes off from Ferrabosco 's ‘ Donna se voi m'odiate ’ which had appeared in Musica Transalpina as ‘ Lady , if you so spite me ’ : and once more the English monosyllables leave their stamp on the music . |
| 18 | It might be the place where the young of the West come to be seen , but it is the old guard who hold their ground , the poets and writers , pamphleteers and musicians who leave their mark on the atmosphere of this enchanted city . |
| 19 | As he straightened up he seemed to have left his heart on the floor with the empty ice-cream carton . |
| 20 | Mrs Baggley 's evidence provided the first unshakeable facts about Paul 's whereabouts after he had left his home on the evening of his murder . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've left your money on the bedside table . ’ |
| 22 | Where 's Kevin , leave your book on the table then , |
| 23 | Backswing This is what happens if you leave your weight on the left side . |
| 24 | You 've given me my breakfast , left my lunch on the kitchen table , cleaned the house and helped me down the stairs . |
| 25 | ‘ I left my wallet on the roof of the car . ’ |
| 26 | I remember that I left my bag on the table for a few minutes at coffee time in the afternoon . ’ |
| 27 | And even when the ark was abandoned , it still left its mark on the science . |
| 28 | Explain how you would deal with an agitated lady on the telephone who wants to speak to the manager because she thinks she left her watch on the washbasin of her room when she checked out . |
| 29 | She left her mark on the glass |
| 30 | Roman was early ; Claudia left her office on the hour , closing the door with an irrational feeling that by the next time she saw it many things , including herself , would be irrevocably changed . |