Example sentences of "leave [pron] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would you like me to leave you for a while ? ’ |
| 2 | She decided to leave it for a while . |
| 3 | There 's too much to be done in the garden to leave it for a week or more . |
| 4 | I think the best thing there would be to leave it for a week , |
| 5 | We will stop there on the way and I will leave you for a while to pay your respects . ’ |
| 6 | I must leave you for a while . |
| 7 | We 'll leave him for a minute or two , then I 'll test his reflexes . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I can hardly wait , ’ he said drily , ‘ but perhaps we could leave it for a couple of years ? ’ |
| 9 | Well no , you have to scarify it and then you have to you have to carry on the work , you ca n't sort of do it and then think , ooh I 'll leave it for a couple of months . |
| 10 | When it comes to mixing the colours it 's totally different from mixing paints — but at least you can leave it for a while and come back to it later . ’ |
| 11 | I would leave it for a while Richard |
| 12 | I would just leave it for a while |
| 13 | You add the wine , and mix it with the eggs and cheese , pour the mixture into a flameproof casserole and put it to cook immediately , but you do not leave it for an instant : you stir ceaselessly until you have a homogenous cream , and you serve it sizzling in the recipient in which it has cooked . " |
| 14 | Leave them for a year , and then go back to find out how they are getting on . |
| 15 | In case anyone thinks this was unnecessarily drastic , I did in fact leave them for a couple of hours to see if they would come out of their own accord — but they did n't , and I was concerned that they might starve if left to their own devices . |
| 16 | Put the containers in a warm place and leave them for a week . |
| 17 | Swan felt very much at a disadvantage , especially when Amaranth told him that she had promised to go to The Times/Sunday Times party with Charles , who had left them for a moment to have a quick word with Peter Riddell of The Times . |
| 18 | Her father had left them for a woman in France . |
| 19 | ‘ Leave me for a bit , Billy , ’ she says with her back to me , so I go out and sit on my bed . |
| 20 | Erm do you mind if I leave you for a second ? |
| 21 | Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect . |
| 22 | Just leave it for a while . ’ |
| 23 | Time is a great healer so , rather than press on with a manoeuvre that is repeatedly failing , leave it for a while and come back to it later . |
| 24 | At this stage , it is a good idea to cover the picture with glass and leave it for a while . |
| 25 | Leave it for a while . ’ |
| 26 | If you leave it for a while , the reeds invade , and there 's no expanse of water at all . |
| 27 | Leave it for a minute or two . |
| 28 | Leave it for a year , and you 'll have established a pattern which will be hard to break . |
| 29 | And then when I get to school , I do , I have to pour all the water into the tank , and leave it for a couple of hours and at break time put the fish into the into the mix water |
| 30 | All you do is add water and leave it for a month . |