Example sentences of "leave [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But in any case , you had no right to leave me at that pub all night . |
| 2 | NEWSPAPERS , radio and television have commissioned an orgy of more than 100 polls during this election campaign but the five main pollsters — MORI , Gallup , Harris , ICM and NOP — have embarked on a price war likely to leave them with little profit . |
| 3 | But it was the piercing electromagnetic field forces and the solar wind that blew away most of the atmospheres consisting of the very lightest gases from the planets nearest to the sun , to leave them with dense cores of rock and metal , the outer gaseous planets being less affected in this way ( now we can see why the innermost planets of the solar system are solid , metallic and rocky , while the outer ones are icy and gaseous ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I brought them over yesterday and George let me have a couple of boxes for the night but I do n't want to leave them over another night if I can help it . |
| 5 | I 'm going to leave you with four grooves that include some of the triplet applications we 've been taking about . |
| 6 | I know we 've had that debate at length in connection with the housing issue but I would just like to leave you with that point again . |
| 7 | I 'm going to leave you with some rhythm combinations of the 8th note triplet and 16th note triplet subdivisions . |
| 8 | And now I 'd like to leave you with this thought " Do you have to make many speeches in the course of your work ? " |
| 9 | Er and I can think of erm nothing better than to leave you with this slide er which I think sums up where we 're coming from today and what we 'd like you to take away from today . |
| 10 | ‘ Hate to leave you with this bunch of weirdos . |
| 11 | So I would like to leave you with this suggestion that art , better than a scientifically-constructed computer , is a useful analogy for the brain , and that the more that can be found out about the workings of memory , the more usefully shall we be able to understand the links between them . |
| 12 | ‘ Now Jane , ’ turning to me , ‘ I 'll have to leave you in this room with Mason while I fetch the doctor . |
| 13 | The lovely Polish mezzo Stefania Toczyska , who had three arias of her own , as well as joining Carreras in duets from Cavalleria Rusticana , Il Trovatore and Carmen , was also permitted a single encore before she quietly disappeared to leave him in sole charge . |
| 14 | But you have to leave it for like months . |
| 15 | Like many people , however , I decided to leave it for another day . |
| 16 | Once you have completed your design , you must ensure that you cover it with a sheet of glass should you have to leave it at any time . |
| 17 | For some reason I had put off starting on it and had even begun to convince myself that it would be better to leave it until next winter . |
| 18 | This is the some the th one of the things I was going to suggest about I was going to leave it till next meeting , is that we we try and organize ourselves so that we are not su Last year I found myself sitting there frantically writing names on raffle tickets , knowing I was going out to play in about ten minutes , but there was nobody there to take over . |
| 19 | Reform was ‘ a flash of lightning illuminating us for one moment only , to leave us in greater darkness ’ . |
| 20 | It is often part of an author 's technique to leave us in some doubt as to what precisely is going on in the fictional world , as Katherine Mansfield does here . |
| 21 | ‘ I think that either Floy could n't leave them for some reason , or — ’ |
| 22 | If necessary , you can leave them for several months and the beetles will continue to feed and reproduce . |
| 23 | And er , then I should go to the bobbin shop and ask them if they could get these done today and er , well we got this on , I said no but I , we want it if you could leave them on one side and erm I used to er I , I became , if I might say so and I 'm not boasting or bragging or anything , Michael , I 'm trying to tell you the situation as it was and er I was a very important man to and er they er got me er at one time to er figure out , they , they used to make what was called Woolworths locks . |
| 24 | Why ca n't we leave them in that water ? |
| 25 | You could n't leave them in those days because there was no social security . |
| 26 | Let's say then , I just , I used to have to work on eleven appointments a week because if I had eleven appointments a week , two people would perhaps blow me out , change their minds , two people would rearrange , two people would say no thank you , and another two would say , yes , but I need to do it next month , which might leave me with two sales . |
| 27 | Does n't leave me with much time . |
| 28 | Maybe they 'll elope to Gretna Green if they ca n't find a vacant Martello tower , then it will leave me with more time for my Roman friend and dear Boudicca not to mention Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals of which I have perused the first paragraph six times yet can not seem to recall it to mind . |
| 29 | ‘ If I pose for a photograph will you all go away and leave me to some peace and quiet ? ’ |
| 30 | He — he would n't leave me in meaningless dark forever . |