Example sentences of "leave he [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 When he and Johnson got back to their inn , Boswell ‘ begged permission to leave him for a little while , that I might run about and pay some short visits to several good people of Inverness ’ .
2 Costs were high because injuries to a male can easily be crippling or fatal , whereas serious injuries to his companion can leave him without an essential partner in combating rival coalitions .
3 But he was sitting where we 'd left him beside an empty biscuit tin .
4 A 13-month-old London boy drowned when he fell off a ‘ topple-proof ’ bath chair while his mother had left him for a few moments .
5 Like Paul , he had trained for the law in youth , and it had left him with a certain accuracy .
6 It had left him with a pronounced limp in his left leg .
7 Peter says that the weekend has left him with a lasting impression of the professionalism of the TA .
8 For Wesker , the fortunes of Shylock have been all too typical of a career plagued by bad luck which has left him with a sizeable canon of rarely performed work .
9 Mario described himself to me as a hungry kid , adding that maybe those early experiences had left him with a permanent sense of insecurity .
10 Urban 's pro-French foreign policy during the Thirty Years War had left him in an exposed position when Richelieu joined forces with Protestant Sweden to thwart the restoration of Catholicism in Germany .
11 Far from slaking his thirst , all his weekend with her had done was whet his appetite and leave him with a desperate craving for more .
12 Piper suddenly had the crazy idea that all the Doctor 's masks had been stripped away , leaving him with no more armour than the truth .
13 Meanwhile , Amex 's chairman , James Robinson , took an $800,000 cut in pay last year because of poor profits , leaving him with a miserly $1,798,077 .
14 Blissett , 28 , had been accused of ‘ cynically and deliberately ’ thrusting his elbow into Uzzell 's face in a mid-air duel , leaving him with a fractured cheek bone and eye socket .
15 Klima 's girl disappears into the Prague bars , leaving him with an imaginary address .
16 In the sudden brightness Gabriel could see every tree around him , until the light disappeared just as suddenly , leaving him in the blackest darkness .
17 It also provides the context in which to consider both the claim that for the later Foucault knowledge is absolutely determined , leaving him in the impossible situation of requiring something outside this for any prospect of critique , as well as the question of exactly how power and resistance are interdependent and to what extent they are separable .
18 If Ramsey was to be Archbishop of Canterbury , what was wrong with leaving him in the weighty see of Durham until the day came ?
19 She rang a bell to be let out again and left him without a backward glance .
20 Lord Atkin laid down the narrow rule in Donoghue v Stevenson [ 1932 ] AC 562 : A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in an injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care .
21 Handing him a cigarette I left him with a final warning .
22 The Southampton central defenders left it to Flowers — but Goddard 's challenge won him the ball and left him with a simple chance .
23 The Court of Appeal decision left him with a two-year term to complete .
24 He looked as though a cannonball had hit him amidships and left him with a hollow chest and a permanent arch in his back .
25 That left him with a 71 , three strokes behind Australian pacesetter Craig Parry .
26 CD 's experiences as a reporter of Parliamentary debates for The Morning Chronicle left him with a profound contempt for the quality of the majority of MPs ( early reflected in such satirical sketches as Cornelius Dingwall in SB 47 , and Mr Gregsbury in NN 16 ) , and for the standard of debate and general conduct in the House of Commons ; in AN 8 , for example , he observes that ‘ farm-yard imitations ’ have not as yet been imported into the American Congress from the UK Parliament , and he satirizes Parliamentary oratory and manœuvres in LD i 34 .
27 CHELSEA defender Paul Elliott is to sue Dean Saunders and Liverpool over the tackle that left him with a severe knee injury .
28 So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head .
29 My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college .
30 However , a venture as public-works contractor in World War I left him with a considerable bank overdraft , not liquidated until 1922 .
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