Example sentences of "leave [prep] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The various groups who were to carry out raids along the North African coast gathered at Siwa at the beginning of June , aiming to leave for their targets between the 6th and the 8th of the month escorted by LRDG patrols . |
| 2 | Now , ready to leave for her afternoon and evening 's fun she thought it unlikely that she would meet anyone she knew in Fleet Street , or even up West with Rose , and anyway it was a chance which she was prepared to take , for she intended her little excursion to be the basis of yet another article . |
| 3 | Tynagh was not the only mine to leave behind its waste to trouble its neighbours . |
| 4 | Ashraf claimed later that she had wanted to leave with her father but he insisted that she remain because " your brother needs you more " . |
| 5 | Police broke down a door at the back of the house and ordered four people inside to leave with their hands on their heads . |
| 6 | ‘ If that is what you want , Mr Reynolds , then I 'm sure David can be persuaded to leave with his family , ’ Beth told him icily ; though in fact she despaired of ever persuading him to leave this house . |
| 7 | The Vapour Corporation Power pop , which means do n't expect to leave with your eardrums intact . |
| 8 | Joe now withdrew his hand from the desk and , rising to his feet , he looked down on to the upturned faces of the two men and said , ‘ My mother may remain in the house as long as she wishes , but the running of it , the accounts and such , I wish to leave in your control . |
| 9 | In February 1929 Irwin had written to the Secretary of State of a conversation with Gandhi that ‘ what was interesting ’ was his statement that , if Indians were at liberty to order their own future , ‘ we should be astonished by how much they would desire to leave in our hands through lack of self-confidence ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ They were n't going to leave without their friend — in a way they were displaying remarkably human behaviour . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You wo n't find it too easy to leave without my help , ’ he pointed out . |
| 12 | Eventually I accepted that I had to leave without my baby . |
| 13 | So long as people can walk out of a room and say they have decided to leave on their terms , they retain their dignity . |
| 14 | During the next three and a half years I often thought of this meal and of the amount I had to leave on my plate because I could not eat any more . |
| 15 | This final glimpse of England 's greatest war criminal would be an anecdote to leave to their descendants , like a family heirloom . |
| 16 | It would be , in fact , in the nature of a political decision and as such one which Civil Servants are accustomed to leave to their masters . |
| 17 | I have given a great deal of thought as to how much I should actually tell you about this period and what just to leave to your imagination . |
| 18 | But that 's one headache I 'll have to leave to my successor . |
| 19 | With no economic future , Bosnian Serbs and Croats may leave for their motherlands or for abroad in greater numbers than at present . |
| 20 | After a moment or two he lifted his head and , his face impassive , said , ‘ I must leave for my business appointment in ten minutes or so . |
| 21 | ‘ Why did n't you leave with your friend ? |
| 22 | So how could he not be far more upset than he would admit at the thought of the gap it would leave in his life and the prospect of probably never seeing his father again ? |
| 23 | She said Sean 's funeral cortege would leave from his mother 's house in west Belfast because he had hundreds of friends in the area . |
| 24 | I sha n't leave without my papers . |
| 25 | In what has been a good year for poets at the conferences , with Neil Kinnock quoting both Frost and Shelley , and Kenneth Baker identifying with Henry V or Kenneth Branagh , Mr Patten chose Larkin 's observation that , with honour gone , all we could now leave to our children was money . |
| 26 | This is a brilliant record , the compilation of the year and a sexy tune farm that you should leave to your grandchildren in your will . |
| 27 | Alix wished to ask , of one particularly baby-faced , prematurely anxious candidate , who was contemplating the allowance that he might leave to his wife should he predecease her : but did not dare . |
| 28 | JACKEY : [ drawing his sword ] By this sword thou shalt not leave till my aunt permits . |
| 29 | Ah , leave off me Sharon . |
| 30 | She had deliberately left off her knickers , so when she dragged the dress over her head she revealed herself standing nude . |