Example sentences of "and leave the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its decision is therefore almost always to show restraint and to leave the scene as quietly as possible . |
| 2 | We were taught to replace the turf at the bottom of the bank to preserve grazing and to leave the face of the newly-cut bank as smooth as possible . |
| 3 | I decided to clear the laboratory and to leave the island on the following day . |
| 4 | Gough 's comment on William Nicholas was that : He was forced to sell the freehold of Balderton and his lease of the adjacent Broomhurst Farm and to leave the district . |
| 5 | In the realm of healing much happens to authenticate Christ 's present will and power to heal the otherwise incurable , and yet , often distressingly , enough fails to happen to serve to remind us that we are not yet at the last day , and to leave the mystery of the ‘ not yet ’ all around us ’ ( Smail 1975:124 ) . |
| 6 | Reception staff at hotels based in cities and large towns may have to persuade unwanted persons loitering in the reception lounge to move on and leave the hotel ; the right to refuse service to persons unfit to be received is often the authority relied on when taking such actions . |
| 7 | Measuring 259 metres by 33.5 metres and with a depth over the sill of 12.3m at Mean High Water Spring Tide the new lock was built to allow ships carrying in excess of 20,000 tonnes of cargo to enter and leave the port . |
| 8 | The only hope we 've got is to split up and leave the quarry in little groups , once we get back . |
| 9 | She had fully expected Penry to dismiss them as nonsense , and felt so shattered that he had n't that it took her longer than usual to clear away and leave the kitchen immaculate . |
| 10 | More realistically , however , we have to allow that money does enter and leave the system so far described . |
| 11 | She would have to get up and leave the church . |
| 12 | All too soon it is time to slow down and leave the motorway , descending into smaller-scale streets , into the congestion of traffic lights , roundabouts , T-junctions . |
| 13 | Diver deployment in the 90s , in the offshore oil and gas industry , has determined that divers should enter and leave the water in as safe and speedy a manner as possible . |
| 14 | It took him five minutes to dress and leave the house . |
| 15 | Assuming that one 's locker and bedspace was satisfactory , the Sergeant would salute and leave the room , meaning that you could get into bed and go to sleep . |
| 16 | Forester could simply melt away and leave the area , but his own freedom was n't his main concern ; he 'd already spent a week away from Cumbria , and he had a sick fear of returning to find the clinic ruins empty and the valley returned to placid normality . |
| 17 | Sometimes I think the people should get out and leave the place to the automobiles . ’ |
| 18 | I sha n't go off and leave the place unlocked . ’ |
| 19 | She begged Charlie to sell Granpa 's old barrow to raise another pound , but Charlie 's reply was always the same — ‘ Never ’ — before adding that he would rather starve and leave the relic to rot in the back yard than let another hand wheel it away . |
| 20 | Why could n't he walk off and leave the Doctor ? |
| 21 | The civilian staff put out the empty milk bottles and leave the camp , another day 's work done , and the regimental police staff in the guardroom check to see that all the recruits have booked in and that all the visitors have been booked out . |
| 22 | Use any damaged roots immediately and leave the rest to dry . |
| 23 | But , as justly observed by you , we must do all we can and leave the rest to God . ’ |
| 24 | Decide how much you need and how long you want to pay — and leave the rest to us . |
| 25 | The decision was to retire to a private island and bar , give the mike to Mike Rafter and leave the rest to changing-room adrenalin . |
| 26 | Instead of paying everybody the same state pension , the state should protect those in need adequately , and leave the rest to look after themselves . |
| 27 | Either one could discard what the philosopher had said about women and keep the rest — which in fact often meant accepting conceptions of human nature that took the male as paradigm , and trying to demonstrate that women were as fully human as men , or one could argue that the philosopher 's thought formed a system within which the attitude towards women formed an inseparable part ( see Elshtain 's ( 1981 ) discussion of the private-public distinction or Grimshaw ( 1986 ) for the examples of Aristotle and Kant ) , so that it was impossible just to take certain parts and leave the rest . |
| 28 | We treat just a couple , place some in the exercises and leave the rest for the reader to prove for himself or look up in , for example , [ 24 ] . |
| 29 | Fred Astaire still twirls Ginger Rogers and Donald Peers croons Give me the moonlight , give me the girl and leave the rest to me . |
| 30 | The secret is then only to stew the squid for another five minutes or so , to remove the squid and leave the rest of the ingredients to simmer and reduce until a thick black sauce is produced . |