Example sentences of "they leave [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Did they leave it in the van for twenty-four hours ? ’
2 no , no , they leave her in the home
3 they leave them in the cloakroom
4 In their ‘ rightness ’ they leave us with a profound sense of ‘ wrongness ’ which many of us store to considerable effect , decades later .
5 So they leave it to the ones who do n't recognise degradation when they see it — I 've been a social worker , I know about these people — women too stupid and disorganised to — ‘
6 They leave you in a certain mood , which you might not be able to explain at the time , but it gets under your skin . ’
7 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 .
8 His bulk , thin but long , was hard for them to get up their spiral stairs , so they left him on the sofa below , on the floor that lay over an ironmonger 's shop .
9 Yeah , and then from that they 've now got these fucking things that show the direction , the sign , the speed and oh its incredible sonar 's been going longer than radar , but only just we were the world leader 's now , I mean we cos we , cos we preserve fuel , we knew exactly , they left it for the last minute to get up there and intercept them .
10 Parents , on the other hand , however much they have suffered at school , or even if they left it with a sense of failure , usually attribute the shortcomings to themselves rather than to the system , and thus find it difficult to envisage school in any form other than the one that they themselves experienced .
11 In the replay they left it to the 90th and won in extra-time .
12 In the replay they left it to the 90th and won in extra-time .
13 where it uses in relation to the previous authorities the words ‘ the principal debtor acted as the agent of the creditor in obtaining a security ’ to relate to any formal contractual agency or agency by ostensible authority but was rather another way of saying ‘ they left it to the debtor to obtain the execution of the necessary documents . ’
14 I ca n't understand why they left it till the last moment ?
15 They left it in the shop . ’
16 If they left it in the hands of it would be a much better song .
17 They left us in no doubt about that .
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