Example sentences of "leave [pers pn] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Would you like me to leave you for a while ? ’ |
2 | She decided to leave it for a while . |
3 | There 's too much to be done in the garden to leave it for a week or more . |
4 | I think the best thing there would be to leave it for a week , |
5 | We will stop there on the way and I will leave you for a while to pay your respects . ’ |
6 | I must leave you for a while . |
7 | Let us leave her for the moment and go back to Matilda and her first day in Miss Honey 's class . |
8 | We 'll leave him for a minute or two , then I 'll test his reflexes . ’ |
9 | ‘ I can hardly wait , ’ he said drily , ‘ but perhaps we could leave it for a couple of years ? ’ |
10 | Well no , you have to scarify it and then you have to you have to carry on the work , you ca n't sort of do it and then think , ooh I 'll leave it for a couple of months . |
11 | When it comes to mixing the colours it 's totally different from mixing paints — but at least you can leave it for a while and come back to it later . ’ |
12 | I would leave it for a while Richard |
13 | I would just leave it for a while |
14 | Finishing the script , I would leave it for the typist and go home for a few hours ' nap until rehearsal time at two o'clock . |
15 | Let's just leave it for the moment , let's just leave it for the moment . |
16 | Let's just leave it for the moment , let's just leave it for the moment . |
17 | You add the wine , and mix it with the eggs and cheese , pour the mixture into a flameproof casserole and put it to cook immediately , but you do not leave it for an instant : you stir ceaselessly until you have a homogenous cream , and you serve it sizzling in the recipient in which it has cooked . " |
18 | Leave them for a year , and then go back to find out how they are getting on . |
19 | In case anyone thinks this was unnecessarily drastic , I did in fact leave them for a couple of hours to see if they would come out of their own accord — but they did n't , and I was concerned that they might starve if left to their own devices . |
20 | Put the containers in a warm place and leave them for a week . |
21 | Swan felt very much at a disadvantage , especially when Amaranth told him that she had promised to go to The Times/Sunday Times party with Charles , who had left them for a moment to have a quick word with Peter Riddell of The Times . |
22 | Her father had left them for a woman in France . |
23 | ‘ Leave me for a bit , Billy , ’ she says with her back to me , so I go out and sit on my bed . |
24 | Erm do you mind if I leave you for a second ? |
25 | Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect . |
26 | Just leave it for a while . ’ |
27 | Time is a great healer so , rather than press on with a manoeuvre that is repeatedly failing , leave it for a while and come back to it later . |
28 | At this stage , it is a good idea to cover the picture with glass and leave it for a while . |
29 | Leave it for a while . ’ |
30 | If you leave it for a while , the reeds invade , and there 's no expanse of water at all . |