Example sentences of "leave [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would you like me to leave you for a while ? ’ |
| 2 | When he and Johnson got back to their inn , Boswell ‘ begged permission to leave him for a little while , that I might run about and pay some short visits to several good people of Inverness ’ . |
| 3 | There 's too much to be done in the garden to leave it for a week or more . |
| 4 | I think the best thing there would be to leave it for a week , |
| 5 | She decided to leave it for a while . |
| 6 | And you shall not strip your vineyard bare , neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard ; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner : I am the Lord your God ’ ( Lev . |
| 7 | We will stop there on the way and I will leave you for a while to pay your respects . ’ |
| 8 | I must leave you for a while . |
| 9 | Now I will leave you for a few minutes . |
| 10 | No she , I 'll leave her for a , she 's gon na have , have her tea in a minute , she can have a bit after her tea . |
| 11 | Only when it became totally apparent that she would never reform and was bent on self-destruction for both of them did he leave her for the younger and more stable Lauren Bacall . |
| 12 | Let us leave her for the moment and go back to Matilda and her first day in Miss Honey 's class . |
| 13 | Previously he had had no worry about her possible infidelity or that she might leave him for a more effective performer . |
| 14 | We 'll leave him for a minute or two , then I 'll test his reflexes . ’ |
| 15 | Those who have a real interest will leave it for a few years before attempting training . |
| 16 | When it comes to mixing the colours it 's totally different from mixing paints — but at least you can leave it for a while and come back to it later . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I can hardly wait , ’ he said drily , ‘ but perhaps we could leave it for a couple of years ? ’ |
| 18 | Well no , you have to scarify it and then you have to you have to carry on the work , you ca n't sort of do it and then think , ooh I 'll leave it for a couple of months . |
| 19 | I would leave it for a while Richard |
| 20 | I would just leave it for a while |
| 21 | ‘ That 's right , do n't leave it for the rats , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke called . |
| 22 | Finishing the script , I would leave it for the typist and go home for a few hours ' nap until rehearsal time at two o'clock . |
| 23 | One man who took early retirement at 61 thought , at the time , that the advantage of early retirement was ‘ The fact that there are so many young people out of work and I thought I 'd done a lifetime 's work and might as well leave it for the young ones . ’ |
| 24 | Let's just leave it for the moment , let's just leave it for the moment . |
| 25 | Let's just leave it for the moment , let's just leave it for the moment . |
| 26 | You add the wine , and mix it with the eggs and cheese , pour the mixture into a flameproof casserole and put it to cook immediately , but you do not leave it for an instant : you stir ceaselessly until you have a homogenous cream , and you serve it sizzling in the recipient in which it has cooked . " |
| 27 | Put the containers in a warm place and leave them for a week . |
| 28 | ( iii ) After incubation in complement , transfer the embryos to fresh M2 + BSA and leave them for a further 20–30 min at 37 C during which time the outer cells should be seen to bleb and lyse . |
| 29 | In case anyone thinks this was unnecessarily drastic , I did in fact leave them for a couple of hours to see if they would come out of their own accord — but they did n't , and I was concerned that they might starve if left to their own devices . |
| 30 | Leave them for a year , and then go back to find out how they are getting on . |