Example sentences of "leave [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Without that I do n't think I 'd have been able to leave home at 17 , be mature enough to manage my own career and be in a steady relationship for three-and-a-half years . |
| 2 | If the developers of these walled refuges were bold enough to include small industries , perhaps also offering to connect young executives by computer and fax to the outside world , the inhabitants of clusterland would never have to leave home at all . |
| 3 | Daily nannies live approximately 150 miles from your house , and have to leave home at 3 a.m. to get to you by 9 . |
| 4 | She wrote , with an unaccustomed fluency , which made her sister wonder if the words had been thought up by her alone , that : — it would not be good for Oreste to leave here at this moment since he has been ill and though he is making a good recovery the doctor who you can be sure I was quick to call and no expense being spared but your money put to good use has said it would injure his general well-being to travel in his weakened state . |
| 5 | She had to leave there at fifteen and come here . |
| 6 | Do n't know whether they thought I was gon na leave home at half past five this morning . |
| 7 | I said what would I like to say , disgusted with the way he 's been treated , I said my father left intensive care at one o'clock on Friday , we was told he was gon na leave there at four o'clock to go home and have a meal and be with him when he went on the ward , when we came back , he 'd been moved , he 'd gone on the ward , he was plonked in the chair , his catheter was on his lap , it had leaked all over him , his dressing was hanging off and seeping with green stuff the wound on his leg was run all down over his foot , he 'd got no cover on his seat so he could see , Dave said they looked and they did n't look very bloody nice |
| 8 | So perhaps four and a half hours , if we do n't get held up on the M twenty five , four and a half hours would do so that , if we leave here at two , we could be there , you know , well by seven . |
| 9 | And you leave here at twenty to eight at night a an and you arrive at , you arrive in Ayr in the morning about half past seven . |
| 10 | It was to safeguard Orkney that Paul was being left there at this moment . |
| 11 | Left again at next junction 150 yds after this ( waymarked ) and keep right 20 yds later ( waymarked ) . |
| 12 | We see an incredible number of young people , and it worries me immensely that these are people at sixteen who 've been chucked out of their homes , and they are being pushed down by bureaucracy , that they are being penalised for leaving home at sixteen when it is not their own fault , it is the fault of well it is the result of family breakdown that they are being pushed out . |
| 13 | So Nigel was leaving home at last . |
| 14 | He still left home at eight each morning , but he did n't head for the office , he wandered round town , visiting anywhere that was free such as the library , or even the museums ; the guides came to know him , one even greeted him when he entered . |
| 15 | He described how it felt to discover he was an illegitimate child , when his mother called him a bastard ; how he left home at 14 to find work in the Durham coalfields — hating his parents , hating the world , ripe for enlistment in the class struggle . |
| 16 | Willem Van Leer was born in Amsterdam on May 29 1913 and left home at 18 — ‘ a remittance man , ’ as he put it , ‘ without a remittance ’ . |
| 17 | Jean left home at 16 and went to live with a friend . |
| 18 | When I first left home at 17 , I was a lot bigger because I used to eat loads of junk food . |
| 19 | Many young people with the encouragement of their parents , left home at this time to avoid these responsibilities . |
| 20 | We left home at half past nine . |
| 21 | Penny left home at 15 and married at 18 , having a baby quickly — and after what she says was a fairly happy period of her life , she began to go downhill fast . |
| 22 | I left home at 15 to become a footballer , she was really proud of me ; she encouraged me to go but I know she wanted me at home . |
| 23 | ‘ I left home at twenty-one . |
| 24 | Women are also more likely to leave work earlier , although only 15 per cent of people surveyed would admit to leaving early at all . |
| 25 | Even if we left here at six we would n't get a table . |
| 26 | We left here at half past five . |
| 27 | We left here at half past five . |
| 28 | We left here at half past eight and we did n't get on the dance floor till twenty to ten cos there was three |
| 29 | they all sit there looking at her and saying bloody hell she ai n't got her own hat on , we 've been here quarter of an hour and she walks in the door , takes her coat off and says come on ladies you 're suppose to be off your hind by two o'clock , leaving here at two |
| 30 | ‘ Well , whatever happens , we 're leaving here at seven thirty on the dot . |