Example sentences of "leave [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But in any case , you had no right to leave me at that pub all night . |
| 2 | Mr Charlwood was a widower with two teenage daughters and did not want to leave them for longer than necessary . |
| 3 | NEWSPAPERS , radio and television have commissioned an orgy of more than 100 polls during this election campaign but the five main pollsters — MORI , Gallup , Harris , ICM and NOP — have embarked on a price war likely to leave them with little profit . |
| 4 | But it was the piercing electromagnetic field forces and the solar wind that blew away most of the atmospheres consisting of the very lightest gases from the planets nearest to the sun , to leave them with dense cores of rock and metal , the outer gaseous planets being less affected in this way ( now we can see why the innermost planets of the solar system are solid , metallic and rocky , while the outer ones are icy and gaseous ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I brought them over yesterday and George let me have a couple of boxes for the night but I do n't want to leave them over another night if I can help it . |
| 6 | They 'd fallen asleep , a head on each shoulder and she was determined to leave them like that for as long as she could . |
| 7 | I 'm going to leave you with four grooves that include some of the triplet applications we 've been taking about . |
| 8 | And I 'd like to leave you with one last statement just enough , but just enough , is not enough ! |
| 9 | I know we 've had that debate at length in connection with the housing issue but I would just like to leave you with that point again . |
| 10 | I 'm going to leave you with some rhythm combinations of the 8th note triplet and 16th note triplet subdivisions . |
| 11 | ‘ Hate to leave you with this bunch of weirdos . |
| 12 | And now I 'd like to leave you with this thought " Do you have to make many speeches in the course of your work ? " |
| 13 | So I would like to leave you with this suggestion that art , better than a scientifically-constructed computer , is a useful analogy for the brain , and that the more that can be found out about the workings of memory , the more usefully shall we be able to understand the links between them . |
| 14 | Er and I can think of erm nothing better than to leave you with this slide er which I think sums up where we 're coming from today and what we 'd like you to take away from today . |
| 15 | ‘ Now Jane , ’ turning to me , ‘ I 'll have to leave you in this room with Mason while I fetch the doctor . |
| 16 | She had always been too conscientious , never spared herself , been afraid to leave him for longer than a day , she deserved a rest , a holiday . |
| 17 | The lovely Polish mezzo Stefania Toczyska , who had three arias of her own , as well as joining Carreras in duets from Cavalleria Rusticana , Il Trovatore and Carmen , was also permitted a single encore before she quietly disappeared to leave him in sole charge . |
| 18 | It will certainly seem so to the Englishman ( as I take him to be ) , who found in the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley — Pound 's most explicit farewell to England , as he prepared to leave her in 1918 — ‘ externality : an externality which , considering what Mauberley attempts , is utterly disabling ’ . |
| 19 | She knew instinctively that he would like to leave her like that ; but he did n't . |
| 20 | I I do n't I do n't I do n't have any more time , we 're just gon na have to leave it on that very er worrying note , but thanks all very much for taking part . |
| 21 | No , I have to leave it on all the time |
| 22 | I have to leave it on all the time though . |
| 23 | But you have to leave it for like months . |
| 24 | Like many people , however , I decided to leave it for another day . |
| 25 | Having stumped up £250 to help sponsor a general practitioners ' management meeting in Nottingham , the Royal Bank of Scotland saw fit to leave it at that . |
| 26 | I am inclined to leave it at that . |
| 27 | He could be quite maddening at times , but I had my own concerns and had to leave it at that . |
| 28 | He is not content , however , to leave it at that : to recognise that the perception of and attention to objectivity varies culturally while claims to objectivity itself are often more biased than is realised . |
| 29 | Though this derives from psychological studies of covert actions types , it would be waste to leave it at that . |
| 30 | Nobody except his lawyers and myself know his whereabouts or have an address and it might be as well to leave it at that . |