Example sentences of "leave [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | just enough to leave me with a strange sense |
| 2 | But I suspect a lot of you would want to leave them with a matt finish , it 's entirely up to you Anyway when you paint , like I say , it 's just it 's because it 's porous it sucks the colour off the brush and er it immediately dries , so you can see , straight away , the colour it 's gon na be when you then put the varnish on you use a sort of matt varnish and so it brings the colour up but it wo n't be shiny or a shine , which you 're gon na choose like you might wan na matt varnish with this and shiny for the shell which ca it really brings the colour up , we wo n't get round to varnishing today erm and the other thing you can do , if you want erm a sort of a mottled effect you do pink in a base colour say Mikila wanted all greeny , bluey colours on that |
| 3 | The question is whether the institutions will adopt the same rather altruistic attitude that they did then now that their income from even the best-performing companies will shrink permanently unless action is taken by the companies to leave them with the same net effect . |
| 4 | Those responsible for initial teacher training , for example , were apparently relieved that the Polytechnic , upon its merger with the Lady Spencer Churchill College of Education in 1975 , was not intending to leave them as a monotechnic island in the interdisciplinary sea of the Polytechnic , particularly when it remained possible ( as confirmed by subsequent experience elsewhere ) that isolation would mean a low ranking in whatever prioritization exercises the Polytechnic might be forced to undertake . |
| 5 | I do not therefore mind leaving these matters in the safe hands of the Germans , just as many nations before 1914 were content to leave them in the safe hands of the British . |
| 6 | Woolf argues for improvements in prisons , not for their own sake , but because ‘ to treat prisoners in a way which is likely to leave them in an embittered and disaffected state on their release ’ will naturally lead to ‘ a deterioration in the ability of the prisoner to operate effectively and lawfully in society ’ . |
| 7 | As I am drawing to a close , as I can find no further connections or criticisms of these two books however obvious or unobvious they may be , I would like to leave you with an appropriate quote from one of my books . |
| 8 | When he and Johnson got back to their inn , Boswell ‘ begged permission to leave him for a little while , that I might run about and pay some short visits to several good people of Inverness ’ . |
| 9 | Of course the Palace ca n't afford to leave her as a loose cannon . |
| 10 | Elfyn Llwyd , Plaid Cymru MP for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy , protested : ‘ To leave it to a mayoral fund is pathetic . ’ |
| 11 | To leave it to a free vote of the House might be taken as an indication that the Government had not made up its mind and would be an invitation to the House of Lords to delete from the Bill the clause abolishing the death penalty . |
| 12 | Well WE 'RE not … were going to leave it to the strong men … something different too … the first ever weightlifting world cup for the disabled . |
| 13 | To leave it to the transforming imagination . |
| 14 | There is still a feeling , and rightly so , that every firm owes some responsibility to its members and their dependants in this respect and that it is not enough to leave it to the individual partner to make his own arrangements . |
| 15 | They reckon they 've had enough and theywant to leave it to the younger ones.0 |
| 16 | If you want to leave it to the last minute you can also bring your items to the Community Centre on the morning . |
| 17 | But I do n't want to leave it to the last game of the season . |
| 18 | In 1973 the Ladies ' Committee concerned itself with this seat reporting ‘ It was a pity to leave it in the wet even if only there for the time being ’ . |
| 19 | Sometimes there might be the temptation to leave it until the next day if the weather is bad or your car will not start . |
| 20 | Only we I do n't , I do n't know about you but I do n't want to leave it until the last minute |
| 21 | One of the great regrets , I am sure , of all hon. Members is that because the hon. Gentleman has chosen to leave us at the next election he will never have the opportunity to be a junior Minister . |
| 22 | Would you leave him/her with a complete stranger ? |
| 23 | And you shall not strip your vineyard bare , neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard ; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner : I am the Lord your God ’ ( Lev . |
| 24 | Please do n't leave them to the last minute . |
| 25 | Please do n't leave them to the last minute . |
| 26 | Please do n't leave them to the last minute . |
| 27 | Please do n't leave them to the last minute . |
| 28 | Please do n't leave them to the last minute . |
| 29 | RAIL commuters have protested at timetable changes they claim will leave them with a long wait or walk . |
| 30 | Even if we were to obtain substantial concessions and eliminate all our strategic nuclear weapons , we could not eliminate all theirs , so we would merely leave them with a residual capability which would be overwhelming and a continual menace to ourselves . |