Example sentences of "leave it [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why , he thought , had they been unable to abandon the film , to leave it without an ending , as a memorial to her death ? |
| 2 | SOMETHING is severely wrong with our support services if a confused woman feels that the only thing she can do with her newborn child is to leave it on a golf course in freezing conditions . |
| 3 | Then you strip it of its bark and , while the wood is still green and supple , you bend back the thin limbs and bind them in place with string , When you 've done that you have to leave it on a drying rack above the fire for … oh , I suppose about three months . |
| 4 | She decided to leave it for a while . |
| 5 | There 's too much to be done in the garden to leave it for a week or more . |
| 6 | I think the best thing there would be to leave it for a week , |
| 7 | So the ministers in charge of the measure felt they could not bring in a guillotine or send the bill to a committee upstairs because most of the Conservatives would have voted against and , not being an issue of confidence between the parties , sufficient Labour dissidents might also have voted against the government to leave it in a minority . |
| 8 | A mineral undertaker can not however , be required to put the land to any specific use after extraction has been completed , but where practicable , he can be required to leave it in a condition comparable to that in which he found it . |
| 9 | if possible you want to avoid that , so you do n't want to , and , and you certainly do n't want to leave it until a time when you have been taken sick and you ca n't do anything about it . |
| 10 | ‘ We felt that we should leave it to a company that specialized in the business and concentrate on adding value to our chemical materials . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I can hardly wait , ’ he said drily , ‘ but perhaps we could leave it for a couple of years ? ’ |
| 12 | Well no , you have to scarify it and then you have to you have to carry on the work , you ca n't sort of do it and then think , ooh I 'll leave it for a couple of months . |
| 13 | When it comes to mixing the colours it 's totally different from mixing paints — but at least you can leave it for a while and come back to it later . ’ |
| 14 | I would leave it for a while Richard |
| 15 | I would just leave it for a while |
| 16 | You add the wine , and mix it with the eggs and cheese , pour the mixture into a flameproof casserole and put it to cook immediately , but you do not leave it for an instant : you stir ceaselessly until you have a homogenous cream , and you serve it sizzling in the recipient in which it has cooked . " |
| 17 | We will not specify K explicitly , but will leave it as a parameter . |
| 18 | You will leave it in a carrier bag at a certain place and time . |
| 19 | The busker who plays Chariots Of Fire on a Casio organ at Bank would leave it in a trice if only he could think of some other way of turning a penny . |
| 20 | As a treat for puffy eyes and dark shadows , grate half a raw , peeled potato , then leave it on a saucer until the juice collects . |
| 21 | Just leave it for a while . ’ |
| 22 | Time is a great healer so , rather than press on with a manoeuvre that is repeatedly failing , leave it for a while and come back to it later . |
| 23 | At this stage , it is a good idea to cover the picture with glass and leave it for a while . |
| 24 | Leave it for a while . ’ |
| 25 | If you leave it for a while , the reeds invade , and there 's no expanse of water at all . |
| 26 | Leave it for a minute or two . |
| 27 | Leave it for a year , and you 'll have established a pattern which will be hard to break . |
| 28 | And then when I get to school , I do , I have to pour all the water into the tank , and leave it for a couple of hours and at break time put the fish into the into the mix water |
| 29 | All you do is add water and leave it for a month . |
| 30 | If you accidentally stain walls with woodworm fluid , leave it for a week or two , and if it still shows , coat it with an aluminium primer before redecorating . |