Example sentences of "have leave [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He has to leave for an important luncheon party in a few minutes . ’ |
2 | My wife has left with the two girls saying ‘ I canny take any more ’ . |
3 | Darlington GP John Apps has left for a three-month trip to the Arctic Circle with a research team investigating wildlife and fauna . |
4 | Spaniard Martin Vasquez , back with Real Madrid after an unhappy few months at the Velodrome , has left in the last year or so along with Chris Waddle , Trevor Steven , Dragan Stojkovic , Eric Cantona and £10 million Jean-Pierre Papin . |
5 | Some said she 'd left with a broken heart . |
6 | Despite the Second Test trouncing by New Zealand , Murphy says Ireland needed that match , ‘ We 'd have come home with a very mistaken picture of our true form if we 'd left after the first international ’ . |
7 | In a few minutes they 'd left behind the head office of Chester Fabrics , driven past the fire-blackened fabric printing plant and escaped into the lush green countryside on the way back to Armscott Manor , the rambling Cotswold home of the Chesters for three generations . |
8 | Opportunities exist to push for new contracts within the same company , so individuals do not always have to leave for a new challenge . |
9 | Over 50 per cent of the population of many US cities are now ethnic ‘ majorities ’ — the whites having left for the outer suburban areas . |
10 | Having left behind the bigoted Bolivian elite for whom he would always be only a rich cholo , the contemptuous South American term for anyone of mixed blood , Simon Patiño had his family enter a far grander arena through a series of aristocratic matches , and when he left his fortune estimated by some to have reached a billion dollars to Antenor following his death in 1947 ( as well as his taste for all things French ) , he also left behind a legacy of bigotry borne of his wish to improve his family 's social standing . |
11 | Irish hockey coach Cees Koppelaar reflects on his team 's failure to qualify for the World Cup and his plans for the future I know there was some criticism when I had to leave before the final inter-provincial game in Dublin last season — that was because of my club commitments in Holland . |
12 | I did not see the trophy presented this time as I had to leave before the last race . |
13 | He had to leave after the first rehearsals when the only line he could remember was the one he 'd tried on the leading lady the night before . |
14 | When the intensive questioning was at last over , fitzAlan had left with the other men , looking as stern and thoughtful as the dour Fleming commander . |
15 | The seat had been held since the 1990 general election by Miklós Németh , Hungary 's last Prime Minister under the transitional communist regime in 1988-90 , who had left for a new career as vice-president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development . |
16 | And so , after they 'd just slipped off to the local registery office in the city , they had left for a brief honeymoon in Paris . |
17 | But I had left on the five o'clock train . ’ |
18 | Anneliese extracted Caroline 's plait , and frowned at the mark her son 's curious clutches had left on the pale silk of the dress . |
19 | He raised his hand , and with brusque , impersonal fingers which nevertheless had a surprising lightness of touch he felt the edges of the cut de Guichet 's whip had left on the smooth cheek . |
20 | Dropping it on the red-pooled floor , Ace stared back at Richmann 's body and the sticky smear it had left on the grey metal of the door . |
21 | This morning she had fought a battle with herself and had left off the concealing shirt . |
22 | He had left as a poor , working class boy and returned as an extremely wealthy man . |
23 | They were addressed to people like the manager of the Ritz Hotel — asking if he had seen a handbag ‘ she ’ had left during a brief stay . |
24 | The Reagan forces claimed that the previous administration , anxious to avoid a tax increase in an election year , had left behind a sizeable budgetary deficit thereby forcing on the new governor the need to introduce legislation substantially raising some forms of taxation . |
25 | Georgina wrinkled her nose , as if the dog had left behind an unmentionable souvenir of his visit . |
26 | She had left in a black fury . |
27 | After Jones had left in a waiting taxi , Hammam said : ‘ We will be appealing . |
28 | Daddy gone , Sambo gone , Mrs Dibdin gone — and the few relics we had left from the olden days all sold , and the house up for sale … ’ |
29 | Monica made her comment to Tweed when Buchanan and Warden had left after a few more minutes ' conversation . |
30 | When the crowds had left after the second home match , Chapman met the helpers in the stand and asked them to take him on trust , asserting that the changes were in the club 's interest . |