Example sentences of "[not/n't] leave [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She would not , could not leave him for this boy !
2 I can not leave her in this bastille .
3 ‘ We must say to the public , ‘ you can not leave us without moral guidance on this .
4 With long-term injury victims Graham Hill and Ian Brady only recently back in full training , and not ready for a competitive return , Carroll admits : ‘ The situation does not leave us with many options . ’
5 ‘ I am not playing , ’ she informed him fiercely , ‘ and I shall not leave you without due notice , however inconvenient . ’
6 Hebbert and McFall do , Hebbert decided , and he persuaded his partner they could not leave it at that after such a long flog up the mountainside .
7 ‘ I think that either Floy could n't leave them for some reason , or — ’
8 You could n't leave them in those days because there was no social security .
9 I ca n't leave them like this ! ’
10 It did n't leave her with much room to manoeuvre .
11 We ca n't leave her in this state for the doctor to examine ! ’
12 He was out again early ; too early even for the car to have been ticketed yet , as he found when he got in and turned the engine over to be sure that the cold and damp of the early hours would n't leave him with any last-minute problems .
13 but yesterday morn he was , yesterday morning he started crying did n't he , I did n't leave him for any length of time
14 We ca n't leave him in British hands . ’
15 ‘ No , we would n't leave him in some Beirut jail .
16 But I could n't leave him like that , his back and legs bare .
17 He was right , but she could n't leave him like this .
18 Does n't leave me with much time .
19 He — he would n't leave me in meaningless dark forever .
20 And … and you ca n't leave me like this , with nothing …
21 Please do n't leave me like this .
22 Small machines like the Olivetti PCS 33 and the Packard Bell Elite 1000 do n't take up much desk space , but they do n't leave you with much room for future expansion either .
23 ‘ Well at least I 'll get them into the kitchen for you , I ca n't leave you with all this mess , can I Chrissy ? ’
24 But I could n't leave it at that .
25 Oh , oh it 's strong , he said and you should n't leave it till ten o'clock at night , then it 's on a cold night and have to open the windows
26 So if I was you Richard I would n't leave it till last minute , I a bit sooner in case the buses are not running .
27 As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in
28 Well I ca n't leave it like this can I ?
29 No , I was n't gon na use it , I just could n't leave it in that boarding house for Rachel to unpack .
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