Example sentences of "leave [noun prp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr McNeilage added that Alistair is due to leave Rwanda at the end of February . |
| 2 | The blast which had flung down the doors at the front had strangely left the windows intact , but when Pat arrived home it was decided that it would be better to leave Julia in the bed in the cellar . |
| 3 | He only collected four points in the 1961 championship and decided to leave Cooper at the end of the season to develop hi ow Grand Prix car . |
| 4 | The idea was to leave FRCN with the responsibility for national and international broadcasting : the Nigerian government would speak with one voice to its people and to the outside world . |
| 5 | Two considerations , however , have persuaded me to leave Egypt on the periphery of my enquiry : ( 1 ) Egypt had interested the Greeks since Homer as a country difficult to approach and with puzzling customs . |
| 6 | American political pressure on Churchill in London , and diplomatic help to Nasser in Cairo , resulted in the highly unsatisfactory Anglo-Egyptian Agreement of October 1954 , whereby the military base installations in the Canal Zone were to be handed over to British civilian contractors , and all uniformed personnel were to leave Egypt by the end of March 1956 . |
| 7 | erm And erm when he came back after the war , he actually was so much involved on the parliamentarian side he had to leave Oxford during the war , but when he came back he built a school in the city which was actually in the Guildhall courtyard , it was built round the courtyard , and that remained a free school , for the city 's boys right up to the end of the 19th century . |
| 8 | The 92nd ministerial meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) , held in Geneva on Sept. 16-17 , was marked by ( i ) the withdrawal of Ecuador ( a full member since 1973 ) , the first member state to leave OPEC in the organization 's 32-year history ; and ( ii ) Iran 's rejection of the final communiqué . |
| 9 | ‘ Very well , Madame , provided you will give me your solemn undertaking not to leave Roziac in the meantime . ’ |
| 10 | A spokesperson for the Vietnamese government estimated that 700 people would leave every month and that a total of between 400,000 and 450,000 were eligible to leave Vietnam under the resettlement programme . |
| 11 | I understand Scotland coach Andy Roxburgh will call up only 16 players and that will leave Nevin in the cold . |
| 12 | This would still leave DRT as the world 's third largest accountancy firm behind KPMG and the recently merged Ernst & Young , so far the only two successful mega-mergers . |
| 13 | She could n't just leave Steve in the lurch after all they had done to get the business together . |
| 14 | MARK RAMPRAKASH could leave Middlesex at the end of the season — in a desperate bid to save a career that is heading for the rocks . |
| 15 | ‘ He ca n't leave London at the moment , ’ I answered . |
| 16 | Chris Waddle confirmed he would leave Marseille at the end of the season . |
| 17 | She was n't even sure just why he was there — they 'd left Marianne in the hotel lounge downstairs with some of the other actors , but that did n't mean she would n't be joining him in his room later . |
| 18 | Handy had left McKinsey over the issue of the status of the executive search function within the organisation . |
| 19 | Iraq is told to obey Security Council Resolution 660 and leave Kuwait at the point of American guns . |
| 20 | More than 10,000 Soviet troops had left Hungary since the start of a partial withdrawal in April 1989 [ see p. 36595 ] , and according to a Soviet announcement on Dec. 28 the withdrawal of another 8,000 troops was envisaged for 1990 , but this would still leave a Soviet presence estimated at between 37,000 and 44,000 troops . |
| 21 | ‘ Stay here in Anjou and leave England to the rule of a man . ’ |
| 22 | Ms Gibson said she had left Gemma in the care of a friend she named as Neha . |
| 23 | Most of his informants had spent at least four years in Britain , and had left Jamaica after the age of sixteen ( pp. 47 – 8 ) . |
| 24 | The evidence of the signature is thus open to so many alternative interpretations that it can not by itself be taken to indicate , let alone prove , that Molla Fenari had left Bursa for the pilgrimage by that date . |
| 25 | They were delighted and arranged a reception for him in a studio formerly occupied by Chagall , who had left France before the war to go back to Russia to get married . |
| 26 | Eichelberger told Japanese representatives that he feared the outbreak of war with the Soviet Union and this could include a sudden attack based on southern Sakhalin and the Kuril islands after allied forces had left Japan with the conclusion of a peace treaty . |
| 27 | But Knox , who was the most brilliant orator of his generation at Oxford — star of the Union , wit , punster in tongues ancient and modern — had left Oxford before the end of the First World War to become a Roman Catholic , and after his return there as chaplain to the Catholics , it was perhaps understandable that he should have kept a low profile . |
| 28 | If the presence of Amy eating her food is the signal ( antecedent ) for Keith to take it ( problem behaviour ) then the change of lunch time arrangements leave Keith without the signal or the food to steal . |
| 29 | He had left Marler in the bar , saying he was going upstairs for a shower . |
| 30 | A 3-1 defeat at new table-toppers Norwich last night left Clough with the indignity of his worst-ever start in 18 years at Nottingham Forest . |