Example sentences of "leave [noun prp] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitler 's threats against the Jews , whose hand he of course saw behind the British and American ‘ war-mongerers ’ , were an attempt to retaliate at what he regarded as Jewish-provoked anti-German public opinion and , by depicting Jews in the position of hostages as the certain victims in any new war , to exert pressure on Britain and the USA to leave Germany a free hand in Europe . |
| 2 | The old lady took all her money out of the bank and made plans to leave Sheffield the next day . |
| 3 | Her elation took her into her clothes , back to the kitchen to leave Phoebe a scrawled memo , and out of the front door . |
| 4 | ‘ If you do , ’ Benjamin replied quietly , ‘ you will leave Nottingham a rich man . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Then , Oswald , you will leave Nottingham a dead man ! ’ |
| 6 | If I do n't stop her , he thought , she 'll leave Miriam a nervous wreck . |
| 7 | Louise had gone back to Nîmes now but she had left Sally the white dress as a parting gift and even without the waspie-waisted basque it was by far the nicest thing Sally owned . |
| 8 | The odds on returning at all were fairly poor by the sound of it ; for , according to Ibu , of the ninety prahus which had left Bira the previous year , five had still not returned , and no word had been heard from their crews . |
| 9 | ( Yeltsin had unexpectedly cancelled all engagements for Jan. 27 and left Moscow the following day , missing the opening of the Middle East Peace Conference — see p. 38740 — and a meeting with the Japanese Foreign Minister . ) |
| 10 | If Airbus pulls out , McDonnell-Douglas may still survive , or it too may pull out of the industry , leaving Boeing the sole producer without fear of competition . |
| 11 | He left Cambridge the following year , not having sat the mathematical tripos because of his delicate health , and became a barrister of the Inner Temple . |
| 12 | Three days after leaving Alexandria the whole column met up with Timpson 's LRDG patrol , which was waiting for them . |
| 13 | She was not looking in their direction , her head was turned to say something to whomever she was with , her short hair blown straight up by the wind as they went into the little newsagent 's , leaving McLeish a clear run to get Catherine back to the Yard . |
| 14 | High hopes and summer weather did nothing to encourage circumspection , and by the time Coleridge and Southey left Bath the next morning , with Southey 's dog Rover in attendance , it is likely that some kind of relationship with Sarah was already understood . |
| 15 | This weakness left Egypt an easy prey for the rising Ottoman empire that seized the country in 1517 , making it then a province of Istanbul and that loosely structured empire that was to dominate the Middle East until 1918 . |
| 16 | My father left Kirsty a considerable amount of money to be held in trust until she reaches eighteen … ’ |
| 17 | The pressures of war also diverted Great Power attention away from East Asia , leaving Japan a freer hand to extend her interests there and bringing about a permanent weakening in the ability of Western powers to influence affairs in the area . |
| 18 | Robins interrupted my thoughts by saying , ‘ Sorry about the word ‘ posh ’ , but I 'd heard before we left Sanderstown the last time that a young man had been appointed assistant to Doctor Reid , and I was a bit surprised when I met you . |
| 19 | The electroshock therapy that followed her hospitalization of one unfortunate schoolboy left Marjorie a dull husk of her former self . |
| 20 | ‘ All I know is that I left Freda a jolly-looking woman and when I came back she was altered . |
| 21 | I left Trieste the following morning for Mavhinje and the house of my Aunt Ema , whom I always remembered with real affection . |
| 22 | ‘ I left Plumford a long time ago . ’ |
| 23 | Balboa left Quareca the next day , 25 September . |
| 24 | Useful contributions from the tail swelled the score to 451 , leaving India a distant victory target of 372 . |
| 25 | At the time , Anselm seems not to have been aware of the importance of the words which he heard , for he left Rome the next day without further discussion and returned to Lyons . |
| 26 | On this note the Council broke up , and Anselm left Rome the next day to return to Lyons . |
| 27 | Without time for more discussion , Anselm simply left Rome the next day , to spend the next fifteen months in total inactivity so far as his archbishopric was concerned . |
| 28 | I left Dublin a long time after you … ’ |
| 29 | One night , a Wednesday , I was told that I was leaving Holloway the next day to go up to Risley remand centre because my judge was at Sheffield . |