Example sentences of "[noun pl] were leaving the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the spectator , Dooley said he stood between the man and the referee as the teams were leaving the pitch . |
| 2 | A train from Geneva had just arrived , and the passengers were leaving the station . |
| 3 | Teachers were leaving the profession in growing numbers because of poor pay and conditions , especially in country areas . |
| 4 | His trouble this time was that masons , carpenters , and other mechanics were leaving the job almost as soon as they started , because of the outrageous rents being demanded by the people with houses bordering the line , especially in Rhyll , where they wanted ten shillings a week just for a room . |
| 5 | In the closing years of the nineteenth century , just as the eastern Germans were leaving the land and deserting the east , at the very time that the Polish population of the border districts was on the rise , the theoretical and practical policies of both the Polenpolitik and the Kulturkampf were hardening around the drive towards industrial and imperial expansion — if not overseas , which was almost impossible — then in the eastern borderlands . |
| 6 | On 24 May the first batch of 1,000 Serbs had been moved from Viktring , and further lorry loads were leaving the camp during McCreery 's visit . |