Example sentences of "leave [pron] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | to leave them in the cleaners ? |
| 2 | Unfortunately I 'm going to be busy for most of today lecturing to a group of Japanese businessmen , so I 'll have to leave you in the hands of my assistant . |
| 3 | It was better to leave everything to the police , who with superior training and equipment must stand a greater chance of uncovering crime . |
| 4 | Unable to find anyone to care for Beru while they were in hospital , they asked a tradesman to leave her in the mountains ‘ to die naturally ’ . |
| 5 | He was asked politely not to bring the rifle to lectures in future — or at least to leave it with the umbrellas in a corner of the room . |
| 6 | Nobody had wanted to be regularly policed as people were abroad , preferring to leave it to the magistrates to swear in special constables as they 'd always done in times of civil disturbance , or use the troops . |
| 7 | The Home Secretary had previously informed the Cabinet that he would have included a provision to this effect in the Bill if he had not thought it preferable to leave it to the Lords to take the initiative . |
| 8 | She wanted to say , ‘ I 'd be more than happy to leave it to the experts . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But I already have an assault charge hanging over me , so in the end I had to leave it to the stewards . |
| 10 | They ought to leave it to the markets . |
| 11 | High technology can also be used to provide the operator with flexibility in the allocation of functions , he can make his own decision about when to control manually and when to leave it to the mechanisms . |
| 12 | I stopped him , I said do n't do that leave them in the envelopes and mark them as they are , so what |
| 13 | If , on the other hand , having read this you 're left with the feeling ‘ so what ’ then let me leave you with the words of two teenagers who frequent similar established alcohol — free projects in England |
| 14 | ‘ Well , we ca n't leave you to the wolves . |
| 15 | She can not afford to make a mistake so she must leave herself to the administrations of Lady G , June 's of Hamilton or Gina Smart in Ayr . |
| 16 | For the crew it 's the end of three hard days and nights , but at least they can now sit back and leave it to the performers . |
| 17 | I just thought I 'd leave it to the experts . |
| 18 | Is removal straight forward , or should I leave it to the professionals ? |
| 19 | If you 're keeping your spouse because you have the assets and he or she does n't , there 's no good leaving nothing to the spouse , unless that spouse is rich in his or her own right Rich in comparative terms , then there may be good reasons not to live him or her anything because you 'd rather leave it to the children . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's right , do n't leave it for the rats , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke called . |
| 21 | Er if we find that we get a , a , a no answer from the employer in terms of paid release , er the first reserve date will be Saturday the tenth and we 'll switch it to Saturday if we if we can leave it in the hands of the three officers to get together on that without calling another meeting of the group , I think might be better . |
| 22 | small room , you could n't leave anything on the walls so it would all be a come down at night , back up in the morning |
| 23 | Despite the size of the factory , there were no nursery facilities and mothers were sometimes forced to bring in their young children and leave them in the cloakrooms all day . |
| 24 | In a democratic society , this means that the public needs to have a basic understanding of science , so that it can make informed decisions and not leave them in the hands of experts . |
| 25 | 6 assorted jars of chutney , unused ( I do n't know about you but I seem to accumulate chutney , pickles , lemon curd , etc. , faster than I can demolish it and rather than throw it away when useless , I 'd prefer to give it a good home — the best way of all is to sneak the jars into the National Trust shop at your local Hall or Towers and leave them among the chutneys already there ) |
| 26 | and er building trade work , both of these things had left me with the qualifications for be abl be able to do it . |
| 27 | And of course that was why Hardy had taken against him , why he had left him on the sidelines any time he picked a team for some action , why he had now given him a job that he knew anyone else in the unit would have balked at . |
| 28 | Leave 'em to the scientists ! ’ |
| 29 | We leave it to the Boys , |
| 30 | So they leave it to the ones who do n't recognise degradation when they see it — I 've been a social worker , I know about these people — women too stupid and disorganised to — ‘ |