Example sentences of "leave [noun prp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In return he was promised his hereditary possessions of Luneburg and Brunswick , but ordered to leave Germany for three years , and so returned to England .
2 Convoy Aid Romania was due to leave Middlesbrough for Eastern Europe early today taking £10,000 worth of powdered milk to feed starving orphans .
3 So , after that , he had decided to leave Salamanca for good and return to the United States by way of England , to say a final goodbye to me and my mother in the house where we had all been so happy at Christmas .
4 In December 1985 the long-awaited Fowler review of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme ( SERPS ) produced only a reduction in the pension benefits rather than an abolition of the scheme ( it is worth noting , however , that the encouragement to leave SERPS for private schemes has had some success ; by mid-1989 over one million people had left ) .
5 What does seem certain is that SERPs will as a result of these changes become more of a marginal scheme , whilst the government has offered several ‘ sweeteners ’ to individuals choosing to leave SERPs for APP-type plans .
6 Berengaria promised to leave Alfonso in 1204 and the pope legitimized the children .
7 They were not due to leave Sintra until early afternoon tomorrow , but she did not think she could stand another day of his kisses and caresses .
8 When the time came to leave Ibrox after 17 years , Miller decided to try his hand in Hong Kong .
9 Pantograph car 167 was first to leave Blackpool in 1962 , but is returning fully-restored for the Centenary in 1985 .
10 This means that she is up at two-thirty in the morning , ironing small items of foreign clothing , while the plane is due to leave Gatwick at ten-thirty .
11 Andrew Higgins , correspondent for the British newspaper the Independent , was ordered on Sept. 13 to leave China within 48 hours .
12 During the course of their conversation , to which Julia listened with only half her attention as she sipped her brandy , she learned that Jackson French was likely to be posted to London to play a part in the winding up of UNRRA later in the year and that Comfort herself was due to leave Venice in two days ' time ‘ now that Julia is getting well again' .
13 That could be true , but on the other hand Dana would n't want to leave Claudia with Roman for any length of time , and she was right , was n't she ?
14 On the following day they were ordered to leave Yugoslavia within 48 hours .
15 As I hope to leave Britain within four weeks I would be immensely grateful if you could Fax me back with a reply as soon as is convenient , as I need the information to determine when I should book an air ticket .
16 Staff of the UN Transitional Assistance Group ( UNTAG ) , including 4,000 infantry and a 300-member military observer unit from various countries , were expected to leave Namibia by early April .
17 The Swiss chargé d'affaires was on March 23 , 1989 , ordered to leave Iran within seven days for activities incompatible with his diplomatic status .
18 British Rail tell us there 's a ten minute delay this evening on the Manchester to London Paddington train , which er was due to leave Oxford at six twenty four , so ten minutes to wait there .
19 Clearly the biggest problem was what to do about the tour , scheduled to leave Oxford at 9.30 a.m. bound for Stratford-upon-Avon .
20 The British believed France would be vital to the control of Germany in the future , especially because American troops were expected to leave Europe in 1947 .
21 British Rail tell us that this evening 's Banbury to London Paddington train which was due to leave Banbury at three minutes past seven has been cancelled , otherwise I 've no problems to report on the local trains or buses . .
22 The Hereford refugees expect to leave Orleans for good by Christmas .
23 When his friends the Barberini were obliged for political reasons to leave Rome in 1644 and settled in Paris he lost little time in entertaining them and the French Court with Italian operas .
24 Mr Rawlins announced his intention to leave Sturge at some time in the future towards the end of last year although he had no specific plans for the next step in his career .
25 THE last staff handling employees income tax returns are to leave London by 1992 for Bootle , East Kilbride , Cardiff , Middlesbrough , Salford and Sunderland , the Inland Revenue announced yesterday .
26 THE last staff handling employees income tax returns are to leave London by 1992 for Bootle , East Kilbride , Cardiff , Middlesbrough , Salford and Sunderland , the Inland Revenue announced yesterday .
27 Identifying the first piece of freight to leave Dover on 1/1/93 proved to be even more difficult .
28 As long as at least 6,000 valid ostraka were handed in , the man who gained most votes was forced to leave Attica for 10 years , though not in dishonour ( he was still allowed , for example , to draw income from his properties , and he returned a free citizen when his time was up ) .
29 But DeFreitas struck an important blow for Lancashire — and for his England chances — when he trapped John Stephenson leg before with Gouch watching from the other end , to leave Essex on 37–1 at the close .
30 Fletcher , 48 , described his decision to leave Essex after 32 years as a difficult one .
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