Example sentences of "leave [prep] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Supremacy will leave behind him a cosmic creature which a group of utterly dedicated masters can operate . |
| 2 | She was employed by the parish for twelve hours a week and her nominal duties were to come in on Mondays , Wednesdays and Fridays , clean the flat , wash and spin dry any linen or articles in the soiled linen basket , and prepare and leave for him a simple lunch on a tray . |
| 3 | He has left behind him a flamboyant monument in Wellington church , Somerset , and the channel known as Popham 's Eau in Cambridgeshire , which was abandoned at his death in 1607 . |
| 4 | When he was a child , an artist visited his school — he happened to be a musician — and left behind him an impression of a man very clearly committed to his chosen subject , and a feeling of passion for doing something you really want to do , that stayed with Paul for years until he finally decided to become a photographer . |
| 5 | I leave with him the thought , especially as Labour is apparently committed to adding another £9 a week to national insurance contributions for 3 million or more people , that if such a policy had been pursued , contributions for an employee on average earnings and his employer would now be about £9 a week more than they are . |
| 6 | He left behind him a baby daughter , a huge political and religious crisis , and a power-struggle far more savage than had ever been experienced before , which began literally at the death-bed . |
| 7 | He left behind him a manuscript which was subsequently published ( Buchan , 1752 ) . |
| 8 | He left behind him a picture of a fast vanishing age of innocence and of an idyllic riverside life , be it by Thames or Fowey , a picture that will last for ever . |
| 9 | He left behind him a town in uproar and the foundations of his fame , for he had been recognised while in Whitehaven and his identity had been confirmed by the Irish deserter . |
| 10 | In the Falange 's case the principal issue was leadership ; when José Antonio Primo de Rivera , jailed in Alicante since before the start of the war , was executed in November 1936 , he left behind him a movement riddled with factionalism and cursed with second-rate would-be successors . |
| 11 | He left behind him a police force outraged by his treachery and a judicial establishment unable to believe that , for the first time , a South African policeman was prepared to tell all about the dirty tricks departments , the hit squads , the assassination detachments and the enormous , shabby , meritorious , violent conspiracy so interwoven into the blood and guts of the South African security services that its agents can no longer tell the difference between criminal pursuits and active police work . |
| 12 | Whatever the exact circumstances , it is at least clear that Eliot vacated Carlyle Mansions quickly and deliberately — and that he left behind him a man to whom he had been a companion for ten years . |
| 13 | He left behind him a disputed succession between his kinsman , Aethelheard ( ASC A , s.a 726 ) and a rival aetheling , Oswald , allegedly a descendant of Ceawlin ( ASC A , s.a. 728 ) , who survived until 730 ( ASC A , s.a. 730 : cf. , D , s.a. 730 ) . |
| 14 | He left behind him the impression — but not as if he had ever meant to say it — that anyone who disagreed with him must really be rather stupid . |
| 15 | He left behind him the scene , still shockingly evident , of the destruction by the Israelis of the Osirak reactor , the flattened mound of concrete . |
| 16 | Leaving behind him a suburban town of 100,000 people on the potato patch , Levitt went on to build bigger Levittowns in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . |
| 17 | Fuchs went to jail leaving behind him a world shocked and horrified by the prospect of atomic warfare . |
| 18 | And he was gone , a trenchmac thrown round his shoulders , hurrying across the yard and along the old cloister that led to the exit , leaving behind him a trail of aromatic blue smoke . |
| 19 | In the interests of the club , he accepted the deal , and moved to Woolwich Arsenal leaving behind him a respectable record of 65 goals in 178 appearances . |
| 20 | Merger with the Southampton based British Seafarers was not merely a convenience , but a necessity , and Wilson , writing in his journal The Seaman exulted that " Shinwell 's patched up old derelict has run bow against the rock of the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union and ignominiously gone to the bottom " Later he gave his own version of how Shinwell had flattered the susceptible French into leaving to him the day-today business of the Glasgow branch and poisoned the minds of the members against him . |