Example sentences of "he [vb mod] be leave " in BNC.
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1 | Then at least something of him would be left . ’ |
2 | And should the inventor then fail in the business he has established to exploit the invention which his employer was unwilling or unable to utilise , he may be left so disillusioned that his talents and abilities are ultimately lost to the country as a whole . |
3 | Unless the buyer can show that there was a latent defect present in the goods at the time of delivery which later became manifest ( and hence that the goods could not have been of merchantable quality at the time of delivery ) he may be left with no remedy . |
4 | ‘ He should be leaving about now , and if I know him he 'll have left me to pay his hotel bill . |
5 | If the patient is safe sitting up , he should be left alone for privacy while he is passing urine or faeces , and he should have a bell to summon help , or perhaps a stick with which to knock on the wall or floor . |
6 | He should be left to do what he does best — sing . |
7 | No one suggests he should be left to the mercy of mad killers , but if he 's really on the run he should be sheltering in some safe house , not bopping around town . |
8 | It seemed so sad that Mrs MacAllister should have had so little time to enjoy this beauty and that he should be left here by himself . ’ |
9 | If Mr Street has succeeded , where owners have failed these past 70 years , in driving a coach and horses through the Rent Acts , he must be left to enjoy the benefit of his ingenuity unless and until Parliament intervenes . |
10 | Scottish Television 's Head of Programmes , David Scott , has announced that he 'll be leaving the company in January . |
11 | That 's why he 'll join you over I mean , he 'll be leaving it on to get ready to go |
12 | Naîve as it may sound , Morrissey 's ideals ( which ran opposite to the ‘ If he does n't get himself a missus soon he 'll be left on the shelf … or he 's a pooftah … ’ mentality ) attracted many young admirers . |
13 | He appears to have been ruled out although Eoin Jess WILL lead the attack despite Italian media suggestions that he 'll be left out . |
14 | He could be leaving Wigan before the start of the season . |
15 | Jerome had surely told all he knew , and if the burden he was carrying was even more than his due , yet he could be left to carry it a while longer . |
16 | He 'd only got to be told by Charlie that he 'd be leaving the High Street by the bridge and walking along the local river . ’ |
17 | And now at least he 'd be left in peace to get on with some real work . |
18 | Now that they knew he would be leaving , the literary confraternity had already started to turn their backs on him , and had begun to scan the possible replacements in the current British intellectual mafia . |
19 | Father Allen said that he would be leaving the Shrine at the end of the year but hopefully another Marist Father would welcome us all again next year . |
20 | When Ian Martin first announced to the world that he would be leaving the post of secretary general , there were few among us who could believe it . |
21 | As always at this time of year , there have been some notable changes on the coaching front , with Pavel Slozil switching from being with Steffi Graf to Jennifer Capriati , Pete Sampras once again breaking from Jo Brandi and then Stanley Franker , the man credit with transforming Dutch tennis , announcing first that he would be leaving Holland to work again in Austria , and then changing his mind in the light of a new and improved offer from the Dutch Tennis Federation , who , given that country 's recent success ( 3 men in the top 40 ) , were naturally unhappy about his impending departure . |
22 | After the matinée , she had met him for tea , and he had held her hand , and looked soulful , and told her how innocent she was and how easy it would be to fall in love with her , but how he must n't , he could n't , because he would be leaving and it would n't be fair to her , and anyway , he had his career to think of , etc . |
23 | They do not reach the true fundamentalist , because even if he read them , he would be left quite unmoved because James Barr 's theology does not give a viable and positive alternative to fundamentalism . |
24 | The chosen method was to calculate his net loss , taking into account that he would have paid income tax on earnings , then adding back ‘ golden handshake ’ tax so that he would be left with the net amount after the Revenue had collected tax on the damages . |
25 | If the manufacturer did this test on every yard of cloth he made he would be left with only worn-out cloth for sale . |
26 | He would be left there , unable to get down without help , until he apologized and did as she said . |
27 | That way , he would be left alone without worrying why no one was asking him for an autograph . |
28 | He will be leaving shortly . ’ |
29 | Asked about the underground Albanian government of Ibrehim Rugova , Arkan replied : ‘ Rugova is a tourist in Serbia , an Albanian tourist and he will be leaving very soon . |
30 | The basic situation which I contemplate is a patient in hospital refusing all but nursing attendance , or the patient at home refusing all care , even if it means that he will be left alone . |