Example sentences of "leave [adv] [prep] a few " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On it , messages left over from a few days before Brian gave up the flat . |
| 5 | Cream conditioners are massaged onto hair , left on for a few minutes , then rinsed off . |
| 6 | But he was reassured by the fact that the Dhah had promised that they were leaving only for a few weeks vacation . |