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 .
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