Example sentences of "leave [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it is hard to expel asylum-seekers once they have arrived , potential host countries make it difficult for refugees to leave home in the first place . |
| 2 | No wonder the ‘ troops on the ground ’ are cynical , for they know ‘ real work ’ is for young officers and is something to leave behind at the first opportunity ! |
| 3 | I gather you 'll be able to leave here on the 15th . |
| 4 | ‘ Sadly , it seems that some young people find it difficult to adjust when they leave home for the first time . ’ |
| 5 | God needs his nourishment , his daily fix of souls as by the million every day we drop off the perch , and so Bernard and Apricot — renamed Ellen as a condition of marriage — if they 're to do God 's will , must reproduce till the cows come home , though nowadays of course the cows never leave home in the first place , they 're linked up permanently to milking machines . |
| 6 | And if I had any sense I would never have left there in the first place . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Then it 's left again at the next crossroads and we 're there . ’ |
| 8 | Many entrants to nursing will be leaving home for the first time or changing their location . |
| 9 | And so it was that on a beautiful morning in May , two to three years after her return from Trantridge , Tess Durbeyfield left home for the second time . |
| 10 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |
| 11 | And when I left home for the first time , it suddenly occurred to me that there was no reason why I should n't change it . |
| 12 | The last date was significant ; it was the Monday following the Sunday on which Inez left home for the last time . |
| 13 | It seems he left here on the 2nd July with another Danish man named Jan Petersen . |