Example sentences of "leave [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Place the cous cous in a bowl , pour over warm water to cover and leave to soak for 10 mins . |
| 2 | Wounds were then left to heal for 18 hours and the position of the epithelial wound margin was noted in relation to the mesenchymal markers ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 3 | Pour boiling water on to the leaves in a clean container or teapot and leave to stand for 3–10 minutes ( no longer , otherwise the flavour changes ) . |
| 4 | Leave to stand for 5 minutes before serving . |
| 5 | Leave to stand for 2 minutes . |
| 6 | Leave to stand for 30 minutes , then bring to the boil very slowly . |
| 7 | Leave to stand for 30 minutes to 1 hour . |
| 8 | Add vegetables to oil mixture , toss together and leave to stand for 15 minutes . |
| 9 | Sprinkle the gelatine over four tablespoons of water and leave to swell for 5 minutes . |
| 10 | Leave to set for 24 hours . |
| 11 | Add strips of beef and leave to marinate for 24 hours . |
| 12 | Leave to marinate for 6 hours or overnight . |
| 13 | Social workers are often left to deal with those clients who are most difficult to engage in any treatment and most likely to relapse such as drug abusers and offenders . |
| 14 | Cover the joint loosely with a tent of foil and leave to rest for 15–20 minutes before carving . |
| 15 | Knead lightly until smooth , then cover and leave to rest for 20 minutes . |
| 16 | Once removed from the courte bouillon , the fillets are left to rest for four minutes . |
| 17 | Leave to soak for several hours or overnight . |
| 18 | He said to me once , when he was driving me to school , that there was nothing left to believe in these days . |
| 19 | Leave to harden for 24 hours , supporting them with small items such as matchboxes if necessary . |
| 20 | Five ml of H 2 O were added to the resin incubated mix , this was left to settle for 10 minutes , and 4 ml of supernatant was removed and examined for the presence of 1 4 C-citrulline by liquid scintillation counting . |
| 21 | Leave to settle for 5 minutes and then tip it out onto a plate . |
| 22 | Before capitalism , the worker had rights of use over some land , and had enough tools to grow some food and have some produce left to barter for other goods . |
| 23 | It is made with ewes ' milk and is left to ripen for three months in limestone caves . |
| 24 | Slit the vanilla pod , scrape the seeds into the milk , add the pod and leave to infuse for 10 minutes . |
| 25 | Method : Stains were left to dry for 24 hours ( old stains are the most stubborn ) . |
| 26 | Her husband Alex , 45 , who was left to care for four children aged four to 17 , said after the verdict : ‘ He is a lucky man . |
| 27 | Leave to dry for 48 hours or more . |
| 28 | Leave to dry for 24 hours . |
| 29 | Leave to dry for 24 hours . |
| 30 | Again and again apparently rational lines of argument suddenly congealed into a porridge of images , while some texts dispensed with argument completely and the mind was left to wrestle with Olympian assertions that left Edward 's own rhetoric sounding like cool logic . |