Example sentences of "never leave the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A daughter ( or more rarely a son ) who has never left the parental home , or who has returned after widowhood or divorce to stay on indefinitely to care for an elderly parent or parents , does not make this choice automatically . |
| 2 | As Figure 5.4 shows , for example , 6 per cent of elderly households include an elderly married couple with another adult , often a son or daughter who has never left the parental home , and 3 per cent contain two or more elderly , non-married people . |
| 3 | Oh never left the bloody window open ? |
| 4 | By extension , then , conservation practices left undone , legislation remaining unheeded , projects that only serve to keep research officers in salary and which never leave the experimental station ( those things not done ) are also political acts and not just omissions , or non-events which do not need explaining . |
| 5 | This is not so with fine lace , of course , because the stitches never leave the original needle , but can happen when knitting normal lace . |
| 6 | Although his body never left the dark realm , the ba-bird 's soul wandered daily amongst men and was often seen perched on the steps of the temple near the busy market-place , the better to observe mankind 's activities . |
| 7 | I must have been spot on his wavelength for I never left the quiet room after one of his healings without a sense , almost of VROOOOM ! |
| 8 | Guido spoke quietly , his eyes never leaving the other man 's face . |
| 9 | Fael-Inis was perched on the edge of a chair now , his eyes never leaving the dark-eyed figure of the Lad . |
| 10 | The originality and importance of Freud 's sociology lies in the fact that he never leaves the human body out of account in the way that so much sociology , both before and since his work , seems to aim to do . |