Example sentences of "leave [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen , you do n't want to leave all over the kitchen like that , it 's really . |
| 2 | The plan was for Richard and Philip to meet at Vézelay on 1st April 1190 and then to leave together for the Holy Land . |
| 3 | to leave quickly in the morning . |
| 4 | He would have to leave early on a sick call , he said . |
| 5 | Most mothers , if forced to leave home for a few days , would entrust their children to the pet dog for safekeeping rather than hand them to their lawful father . |
| 6 | Picture a teenage girl in Morocco for whom premarital loss of virginity is culturally intolerable and who faces the ‘ choice ’ , under male duress , of tolerating anal intercourse , or of submitting to vaginal penetration knowing that she will thereby have to leave home for a life of prostitution ; she may even know that both are related to acquisition of HIV . |
| 7 | There 's nothing unusual about clogged up roads in London , but this was the school half-term holidays — usually a haven of relatively clear tarmac , a glorious window of opportunity to leave home for the office a quarter of an hour later . |
| 8 | Because it is hard to expel asylum-seekers once they have arrived , potential host countries make it difficult for refugees to leave home in the first place . |
| 9 | No wonder the ‘ troops on the ground ’ are cynical , for they know ‘ real work ’ is for young officers and is something to leave behind at the first opportunity ! |
| 10 | From a balcony overlooking the embassy grounds , and to wild cheering from the thousands of would-be emigrants in the ‘ tent village ’ below , he announced all those staying in the embassy would be allowed to leave immediately for the West . |
| 11 | I gather you 'll be able to leave here on the 15th . |
| 12 | I do n't expect them to leave here with a catalogue of stories about what a terrible place Whitely is . |
| 13 | The inspector said I 'm not going to allow you to leave here with a prisoner and those two cases . |
| 14 | He was educated at a boarding school in Littlehampton , but had to leave abruptly at the age of sixteen for financial reasons when his father died suddenly of pneumonia . |
| 15 | His oarsmen held his great galley back off the beach , ready to leave again at a word as Eachuinn Odhar leaped thigh-deep to surge ashore , energetic and agile almost as in his youth , and much more dangerous . |
| 16 | They do n't leave much at the end . |
| 17 | ‘ The gate guard did say he saw a blanc leave shortly before the explosion . ’ |
| 18 | In order to defuse this rivalry , Dycarbas resolves that both sons should leave home for a time . |
| 19 | To ensure good luck , your daughter should leave home by the front door , stepping out with her right foot first . |
| 20 | One finding , for instance , was that cyclists can leave home in the morning later , as late as 8.15 , and still get to school in good time . |
| 21 | On the other hand , conquest and the growth of empires have created larger political units , and even after their dissolution may leave behind as a more enduring residue some elements of a distinctive civilization , in such forms as Roman law or British parliamentary democracy . |
| 22 | The main reason a purchaser will insist on buying assets , and may perhaps refuse to deal with the vendor on any other basis , is that the purchaser can then select which of the vendor 's liabilities he will assume and more importantly which he will leave behind for the vendor to deal with . |
| 23 | I hope we shall leave here with a deeper love and , if I dare suggest it , a more confident love . |
| 24 | ‘ You can leave here in the morning , find Silas and talk to him , then return by evening . |
| 25 | It , it has n't been so far because I 'm left right behind a background . |
| 26 | Three pound notes were usually left discreetly on the table after tea . |
| 27 | Plastics — that here leave little to the imagination — were widely used in fashion . |
| 28 | Content often left little to the imagination , with one candidate listing ‘ winning a prize for dressing up as Kylie Minogue at the Finchley carnival ’ among his or her achievements , while another left nothing to chance and scrawled ‘ YOU CA N'T LIVE WITHOUT ME ! ’ at the end of his CV . |
| 29 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
| 30 | Suddenly all the gifts disappeared , and the pair were left only with the humble fisherman 's hut they owned to start with . |