Example sentences of "leave [noun prp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin Bicknell turned in a fine all-round performance to leave Surrey in charge against Glamorgan at The Oval . |
| 2 | Any question of taking her into Penzance had to be abandoned and Harriet went off alone to do the weekly shopping , thankful to be able to leave Edna in charge of Celia and trying not to feel guilty that she actually preferred such expeditions without her daughter 's company . |
| 3 | It would n't have occurred to you to leave Adam in peace and let him have a well-deserved weekend off , would it ? |
| 4 | The request ( 5:1 ) : this seems less than the whole truth ; but it is in the nature of a test-case , Israel had to leave Egypt in order to sacrifice because the nature of their sacrifice was offensive to the Egyptians ( 8:26 ) . |
| 5 | As the group arrived back in Britain , President Saddam Hussein said that Westerners trying to leave Iraq without permission could face life imprisonment . |
| 6 | The race starts today ( Good Friday ) and the two intrepid firefighters intend to leave Devizes at midday . |
| 7 | We 're just about to leave Sian by air for Nanking , and we 've just heard that a bevy of Brit . |
| 8 | At a time when there was speculation as to whether MacArthur might leave Japan as part of the political developments in 1948 , Gascoigne wrote in January 1948 : |
| 9 | I shall leave Selden in peace . ’ |
| 10 | In what was seen as an important concession to China and condemned by more militant Tibetans as a sell-out , the Dalai Lama effectively acknowledged China 's overall sovereignty and suggested that Tibet become a self-governing region in association with China , a relationship that would leave Peking in control of both foreign policy and defence . |
| 11 | But there has been no sign of panic flight as they remain convinced that they can still leave Libya by road , albeit at the cost of a 12-hour drive through the desert . |
| 12 | I tried to ring her the other day as going to a seminar at my solicitors office nearby and had hoped to walk up plus dog , leave Bella for duration of seminar and pick her up again = kill exercise bird with seminar stone as it were . |
| 13 | He had left England in disgust . |
| 14 | The Quins were embarrassed to discover yesterday that Troy Coker , the wandering Wallaby , had already left England in readiness to play for Queensland against Fiji in Suva this weekend . |
| 15 | The couple have now left Ross on wye , Jonathans girfriend says that it was only a small minority who were involved in racial abuse but it was so unpleasant they now feel they ca n't live there any longer . |
| 16 | Ellie tried to imagine how her mother must have felt as she had left Ireland by boat , to sail the Atlantic and marry a man she had met only a handful of times . |
| 17 | 7/JG 26 had left Sicily for Taranto during this period , operating over southern Yugoslavia on 6th. , the day of the invasion of that country . |
| 18 | Bosnian Muslims leave Croatia for refuge in Israel |
| 19 | Air Malta will also fly three times a week to southern Tunisia to pick up passengers who have left Tripoli by road . |
| 20 | Our apprentices regularly leave Britain for training because they can not obtain it here . |
| 21 | For Henry Thomas had left Tredegar for railway employment in Swindon and one of his sons , the Uncle Harry who features in the Swindon holidays described so lovingly in The Childhood of Edward Thomas , was a fitter at the Swindon GWR works until he set sail for South Africa in 1891 . |
| 22 | ‘ All I know is that he would not have left Rhodes without marriage . |
| 23 | Nightmare Nick , three ahead at the eighth , took 42 on the back nine and left Jimenez to pocket £100,000 with a 274 aggregate . |
| 24 | In the morning they left Scott of Eldinhope in rather better mood , the Regent being at pains to pay for benefits received , which clearly the laird had not expected . |
| 25 | On Monday 29 September the Goulds left Maitland by cart for Yarrundi . |
| 26 | He suggested that Aeneas left Dido in obedience to his fate but he was not thereby relieved of feelings of shame or unhappiness — he felt " a worm " . |
| 27 | ‘ At about 1100 hours a smallish raid was detected leaving Sicily on course for Malta . |
| 28 | McLoughlin giving Ireland the trip to the USA with his 1–1 equalizer vs Northern Ireland — he came on as a substitute — meaning that Ireland left Denmark at home — same points , same goal difference — but Ireland got more goals |
| 29 | So , John Major left Washington in triumph ? |
| 30 | Eighty-nine for 2 at lunch left England with hope . |