Example sentences of "leave [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | JUDGES must take into account public opinion when sentencing offenders and aim to leave everyone with a feeling that justice has been done , England 's Lord Chief Justice , Lord Taylor , declared yesterday . |
| 2 | just enough to leave me with a strange sense |
| 3 | But I suspect a lot of you would want to leave them with a matt finish , it 's entirely up to you Anyway when you paint , like I say , it 's just it 's because it 's porous it sucks the colour off the brush and er it immediately dries , so you can see , straight away , the colour it 's gon na be when you then put the varnish on you use a sort of matt varnish and so it brings the colour up but it wo n't be shiny or a shine , which you 're gon na choose like you might wan na matt varnish with this and shiny for the shell which ca it really brings the colour up , we wo n't get round to varnishing today erm and the other thing you can do , if you want erm a sort of a mottled effect you do pink in a base colour say Mikila wanted all greeny , bluey colours on that |
| 4 | Those responsible for initial teacher training , for example , were apparently relieved that the Polytechnic , upon its merger with the Lady Spencer Churchill College of Education in 1975 , was not intending to leave them as a monotechnic island in the interdisciplinary sea of the Polytechnic , particularly when it remained possible ( as confirmed by subsequent experience elsewhere ) that isolation would mean a low ranking in whatever prioritization exercises the Polytechnic might be forced to undertake . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've got to leave them in a taxi-cab in Inkeroinen . ’ |
| 6 | Woolf argues for improvements in prisons , not for their own sake , but because ‘ to treat prisoners in a way which is likely to leave them in an embittered and disaffected state on their release ’ will naturally lead to ‘ a deterioration in the ability of the prisoner to operate effectively and lawfully in society ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd have to leave 'er in a basket at the gate . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Would you like me to leave you for a while ? ’ |
| 9 | As I am drawing to a close , as I can find no further connections or criticisms of these two books however obvious or unobvious they may be , I would like to leave you with an appropriate quote from one of my books . |
| 10 | But now , after he has commanded Abraham to leave everything behind a second time , he waits until Abraham has passed the test . |
| 11 | ‘ Susie seems to leave everything in a mess these days , even though she knows I care a lot about the way the flat looks . |
| 12 | And their departure is likely to leave something of a hole . |
| 13 | And it demonstrated that Hitler 's instinctive grasp of the ‘ gut feelings ’ of the population , on which his effectiveness as a speaker greatly rested , was also beginning to leave him as a result of his isolation in his distant field headquarters . |
| 14 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
| 15 | Handling it in this way is likely to leave him with a sense of confusion and resentment . |
| 16 | Hamill , who has dropped back to 34th place in the Challenge Tour order of merit following his recent two-week break , had a three-under par 68 in the third round to leave him with a tournament aggregate of 210 , seven shots behind leader Frederick Larsson of Sweden . |
| 17 | At first I thought the kick was going to leave him with a permanently capped hock , but luckily Lynn Russell ( the friend , show producer and dealer who sold Skipper to me ) had all the answers , as usual . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | Twice he needed to have attention from a doctor on the course but battled on to record a four under par 66 which was good enough to leave him in a tie for 9th place , nine shots behind the winner , Eduardo Romero from the Argentine . |
| 20 | It was n't fair to leave him in a fool 's paradise , and for her own peace of mind she wanted to have everything settled . |
| 21 | She wondered if Ethel would relent and change her back , or whether she might be really wicked enough to leave her as a frog , for ever . |
| 22 | Of course the Palace ca n't afford to leave her as a loose cannon . |
| 23 | As baby Odessa 's condition deteriorated they were forced by the war to leave her in a hospital in Belgrade . |
| 24 | Why , he thought , had they been unable to abandon the film , to leave it without an ending , as a memorial to her death ? |
| 25 | Then you strip it of its bark and , while the wood is still green and supple , you bend back the thin limbs and bind them in place with string , When you 've done that you have to leave it on a drying rack above the fire for … oh , I suppose about three months . |
| 26 | SOMETHING is severely wrong with our support services if a confused woman feels that the only thing she can do with her newborn child is to leave it on a golf course in freezing conditions . |
| 27 | There 's too much to be done in the garden to leave it for a week or more . |
| 28 | I think the best thing there would be to leave it for a week , |
| 29 | She decided to leave it for a while . |
| 30 | To leave it to a free vote of the House might be taken as an indication that the Government had not made up its mind and would be an invitation to the House of Lords to delete from the Bill the clause abolishing the death penalty . |