Example sentences of "leave [pron] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of wooing the only people who should really matter — the fans — soccer often seems to leave them at the bottom of their list of priorities . |
| 2 | He had intended to leave them at the station , but the Left Luggage Office , he had just been reminded , closed at 9.30 . |
| 3 | Newton , who celebrated by clubbing in London 's West End , has played in every position for Chelsea — including goalkeeper for part of a reserve game — and Porterfield must be tempted now to leave him at the front for the next test against Middlesbrough . |
| 4 | Mr Sunderland himself had driven her home in his car , and she had begged him to leave her at the gate so as not to alarm her family . |
| 5 | Daddy has to leave it at the garage . |
| 6 | Erm , and we 've had , I 'm afraid to give protective notice to six members of staff , it 's about er , discussions with the erm , Tech , are not successful , then they will have to leave us at the end of this programme year , which is the thirty-first of March . |
| 7 | Does he agree that it is now essential that he withdraw the Asylum Bill now under consideration and instead institute a proper system of legal appeal that gives automatic rights of appeal to political asylum seekers and does not leave them at the mercy of his erroneous decisions ? |
| 8 | Or I mean I think he 's , she 's bitten him before , if he had any sense he 'd leave them at the gate or something , I mean somebody would go for them . |
| 9 | ‘ I regret I must leave you at the door , Lady Isabel . |
| 10 | But he could n't just leave her at the station . |
| 11 | He was pessimistic about Britain 's economic prospects and felt that a free-trade policy would leave her at the mercy of economic storms like that of 1931 . |
| 12 | This can be placed in your manor chapel and perhaps tomorrow , on our way to Glastonbury , we can leave it at the village church . |
| 13 | Mr John Prescott , the Labour transport spokesman , said BR would lose £3.5 billion of public support by 1993 , which would leave it at the bottom of the international league for support and top for fares . |
| 14 | I 'll leave it at the moment , I know you 've now got a very busy day ahead of you lectures to attend and such things like that but er has anybody got a question or two they 'd like to ask me concerning anything ? |
| 15 | The terms of the transfer could , GMAG members fear , leave them at the beck and call of the parent executive . |
| 16 | And erm my mother used to bake , and we used to take the clothes basket with the tins of dough ready prepared by your mother and we used to take them to the bakehouse at lunchtime , when we were coming back from our from our meal , the midday meal from home , leave them at the bakehouse and so the baker had finished his morning 's baking with his oven of his own bread you see . |
| 17 | He 'd left her at the inn without so much as a word , and here he was , calmly indulging his hobby while she 'd had to trek after him . |
| 18 | Often , after he had left her at the door of her apartment , he would ridicule himself An old man with a Pygmalion fantasy . |
| 19 | To lose her now was going to be ten times worse than when she had left her at the Foundling Hospital , and she was making herself ill with worry . |
| 20 | When he 'd left her at the entrance to Newcastle Place the day Pa died she 'd ached with disappointment that she might never see him again . |
| 21 | What Odysseus hears is without consequence for him ; he is able only to nod his head as a sign to be set free from his bonds ; but it is too late ; his men , who do not listen , know only the song 's danger but nothing of its beauty , and leave him at the mast to save him and themselves . |
| 22 | Just leave it at the moment I 'm trying to here if you ca n't |
| 23 | Well leave it at the moment . |
| 24 | Perhaps it would be best if you left me at the cottage and went back to London . |
| 25 | Nellie had packed the two children 's bags and left them at the door . |
| 26 | Kath left them at the lift , and as the doors closed she caught a glimpse of him crouching down and talking to the little lad , his warm brown eyes kindly and concerned . |
| 27 | She left them at the studio when she called and I have n't her name or address . |
| 28 | Poor Stevie , unsettled by the cameras , fluffed his chip and left himself at the bottom of the slope . |
| 29 | He was glad to let the subject drop and they drove in silence until he left her at the gate of Martyr 's Cottage . |
| 30 | I was called away to the hospital so I left her at the house waiting for Nigel to turn up to collect her . ’ |