Example sentences of "[prep] leaving [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | After leaving him on the bedroom floor , he returned to throw a jug of water in his father 's face . |
2 | It may seem obvious to you that coffee cups belong in the top cupboard , but if people get into the habit of leaving them in the sink and you allow them to do that ( even when it irritates you ) it will be difficult to get them to change . |
3 | It does not mean — what it all too often has become — an aid to impulse buying , ‘ immediate ’ gardening , and the idea that ‘ if we lift them and pot them up instead of leaving them in the ground , we can sell them in a couple of weeks time as ‘ container grown ’ ’ . |
4 | This needs appropriate institutions , similar to Marshall Aid after the war , instead of leaving it to the World Bank and the IMF and various ad hoc advisers . |
5 | And I left it on the side instead of leaving it in the grill . |
6 | If Ramsey was to be Archbishop of Canterbury , what was wrong with leaving him in the weighty see of Durham until the day came ? |
7 | My cherished Höfner acoustic guitar recently tried to murder me for leaving it in the boot of the car on a hot sunny day . |
8 | ‘ I think they were quite serious about leaving us at the time and thought they would get an objective opinion from Langford . |
9 | He looked at her doubtfully , as troubled at leaving her with the distressed child as Edna had been at leaving Liza with Celia a short time before . |
10 | Attempting to duck the consequences of hard decisions by leaving them to the last possible minute or by creating distance through solely informing parents by letter places the initiative in the hands of others . |
11 | Section 123(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 provides that a company is deemed unable to pay its debts if a creditor ( by assignment or otherwise ) to whom the company is indebted in a sum exceeding £750 then due has served on the company , by leaving it at the company 's registered office , a written demand ( in the prescribed form ) requiring the company to pay the sum so due and the company has for three weeks thereafter neglected to pay the sum or to secure or compound for it to the reasonable satisfaction of the creditor . |
12 | It always was going to be a mad situation , though , as long as the Government carried on taking the coward 's way out by leaving it to the judges in Luxembourg or the Eurocrats in Brussels to sort things out for them . |
13 | In cases falling within this protected class , equity would hold the security given by the surety to be unenforceable by the creditor if : ( i ) the relationship between the debtor and the surety and the consequent likelihood of influence and reliance was known to the creditor ; and ( ii ) the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by undue influence or material misrepresentation on the part of the debtor or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction ; and ( iii ) the creditor , whether by leaving it to the debtor to deal with the surety or otherwise , had failed to take reasonable steps to try and ensure that the surety entered into the transaction with an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction and that the surety 's consent to the transaction was a true and informed one . |