Example sentences of "leave [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan was for Richard and Philip to meet at Vézelay on 1st April 1190 and then to leave together for the Holy Land . |
| 2 | He would have to leave early on a sick call , he said . |
| 3 | Most mothers , if forced to leave home for a few days , would entrust their children to the pet dog for safekeeping rather than hand them to their lawful father . |
| 4 | Because it is hard to expel asylum-seekers once they have arrived , potential host countries make it difficult for refugees to leave home in the first place . |
| 5 | No wonder the ‘ troops on the ground ’ are cynical , for they know ‘ real work ’ is for young officers and is something to leave behind at the first opportunity ! |
| 6 | I gather you 'll be able to leave here on the 15th . |
| 7 | To ensure good luck , your daughter should leave home by the front door , stepping out with her right foot first . |
| 8 | I hope we shall leave here with a deeper love and , if I dare suggest it , a more confident love . |
| 9 | The car 's headlights picked out a road sign and she swung slowly left on to the narrow lane indicated . |
| 10 | That is to say , if a stress is left on for a long time , wood will gradually run away from the load . |
| 11 | The light will be left on for the whole time . |
| 12 | To ensure you get a full charge , just leave on for a half hour or so longer than normal . |
| 13 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
| 14 | As Young ( 1986 ) has pointed out , we seem to be left only with the practical but extremely narrow focus of the new ‘ administrative ’ criminologists , or the unexamined , taken-for-granted ( and contradictory ) explanations of ‘ left idealism ’ . |
| 15 | Suddenly all the gifts disappeared , and the pair were left only with the humble fisherman 's hut they owned to start with . |
| 16 | Sorry , I run a health spa in Scotland and I see an awful lot of women who obviously come in for some slight improvement but quite frankly it is the stress factor that shows in the face that does n't make them quite so beautiful because their personalities comes across for when their stressed it shows in their face and I notice when they leave only after a few days the stress has gone and their personality shines through and their far more beautiful . |
| 17 | Many objects offer clues that tell us how they were made — an air bubble in a piece of mouth-blown glass , or the tell-tale edge that the join in the mould has left all around a cast-iron object , or the impression of a paw print left by a stray cat on a Roman clay roof tile . |
| 18 | It belonged almost in its entirety to Kenneth Horne , around whom the show was built , but there was enough left over for the supporting players , Betty Marsden , Hugh Paddick , Bill Pertwee and Ken , all of whom built up their own individual following . |
| 19 | We must find some way of ‘ taking out ’ of our calculations that fraction of brain that can be attributed simply to body size , so that we can compare what is left over as the true ‘ braininess ’ of animals . |
| 20 | Right , that looks like the hundred , that 's the sort of left over of the hundred , so it 's just equal to seventy five over a hundred , and you |
| 21 | On it , messages left over from a few days before Brian gave up the flat . |
| 22 | But in some respects he seems to be left over from a previous age . |
| 23 | He says they 're the items left over from a large number of burglaries . |
| 24 | The idea dates from the 1950s , when it looked as if there would be plutonium left over from the fast-breeder reactors that were being planned — reactors which could produce more plutonium than they consumed . |
| 25 | In 1958 the foreign exchange restrictions left over from the immediate post-war period were eased in many countries in Western Europe . |
| 26 | Macmillan , the publisher , had a quantity of ‘ sheets ’ left over from the first printing and shipped them over to Appleton & Co. , the American publishers . |
| 27 | It is still there , and , periodically , repressed material returns to set problems for man which remain unresolved , left over from the first parricide . |
| 28 | It smelled damp , and there was the hint of wood smoke , left over from the illegal fire that Charlie had burned in the open grate . |
| 29 | ‘ We need to face the frustrations left over from the second world war ’ , he says . |
| 30 | Yes I put out an appeal to er my readers to search their attics and their er lofts and their garden sheds for all the things they might have left over from the second World War . |