Example sentences of "leave [pers pn] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | love is kind enough not to leave them there in the first place . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , it hardly seemed right to leave them there in the circumstances . |
| 3 | She would have had to leave her alone in the house , and Nelson Close is n't in the suburbs , is it ? ’ |
| 4 | If he gets to Bernard before we know the details of the hit it 'll leave us totally in the dark . |
| 5 | It had been made in Naples in the fifteenth century , presumably at the court of Beatrice 's father , for it had belonged to her and she had left it behind in the castle at Esztergom when she left Hungary in 1500 . |
| 6 | Sarah had made a pot of tea and left them together in the overcrowded room . |
| 7 | And er but at er there you 'd got to go for the other two years , and some parents were rather wondering whether that left you late in the queue for a job , because jobs were very difficult . |
| 8 | Jitters knew she was doing two people a favour , because Fat Juanita got depressed when the johnny-passing-throughs left her downstairs in the parlour with her knitting and gave all the custom to Gretchen , Connie Calzone , Margaret Running Deer and the Games Mistress . |
| 9 | For Ellen Musialela , Acting Secretary for the SWAPO Women 's Council , this year it will be 21 years since she left her home in the Caprivi Strip to join SWAPO 's armed struggle for liberation . |
| 10 | Patricia was rowed for leaving him behind in the cinema . |
| 11 | Sarah was seized suddenly with rage at Philip for dying , for leaving her behind in the world . |
| 12 | I took him home in triumph and left him overnight in the porch , intending to record his vital statistics before turning him into fish pie . |
| 13 | You could have spoken to him , you could have offered something of yourself , but you left him there in the stinking bloody cold . |