Example sentences of "leave [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Let us leave her for the moment and go back to Matilda and her first day in Miss Honey 's class . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's right , do n't leave it for the rats , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke called . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Let's just leave it for the moment , let's just leave it for the moment . |
| 8 | Let's just leave it for the moment , let's just leave it for the moment . |
| 9 | I would rather have no bolts and the romantic ethic — leave it for the next generation if it requires a bolt . |
| 10 | Hakim was used to transactions where ‘ all parameters are not known , you leave it for the times that things are known ’ , but this business proceeded on a plane that was ‘ intangible ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ As a pledge of my sincerity in the matter of the crowning of Prince Richard , I leave it for the time being with you . |
| 12 | Leave it for the beneficiaries . |
| 13 | He 'd just rob us and tie us up and leave us for the wolves , I expect . ’ |
| 14 | The steppes were the first to be affected , so that in June alone over a million peasants left them for the Volga . |
| 15 | She was so proud of herself for getting that out , grinning wildly at the other woman , that Ruth could n't subject her to more and left them for the tennis courts while they unpacked the dusty Seat that seemed to be packed to the gunnels with baskets of clothes and packages . |
| 16 | Wrap a candle in the end of each tentacle , leaving one for the cane , if preferred . |
| 17 | Even when Guy left her for the few seconds it took him to remove his own clothes , his murmured words of love and praise still warmed and reassured her . |
| 18 | He pushed his bicycle up the hill from Wheatley station in the company of another new student who had a strangely similar background : of nonconformist origins , with his father an official of a nonconformist Church ; a young man who postponed his own confirmation into the Church of England because his parents might be hurt ; and who swung at the university from his very Protestant background into a sense of the devotional stature in Anglo-Catholicism , and into convictions which never left him for the rest of his life ; a graduate of Balliol College , by name Austin Farrer . |
| 19 | Val left him for the first time since they had set up house , and went briefly ‘ home ’ . |
| 20 | Unexpected , this affected him strongly , indeed left him for the moment in a strange turmoil emotionally . |
| 21 | She poured the coffee black , and left it for the three of them to add milk and sugar . |
| 22 | They scarcely left it for the next two weeks , their passion putting her dreams to shame . |
| 23 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |
| 24 | Yeah , and then from that they 've now got these fucking things that show the direction , the sign , the speed and oh its incredible sonar 's been going longer than radar , but only just we were the world leader 's now , I mean we cos we , cos we preserve fuel , we knew exactly , they left it for the last minute to get up there and intercept them . |
| 25 | By closing time the place was like an alcoholic Turkish bath , and leaving it for the trip over Stonesdale Moor in the lashing rain was a sore wrench indeed . |
| 26 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 27 | ( When he finally left us for the United States , he took these gifts back from me , with the excuse that as he had bought them in Berlin he wanted to show them to the dancer . |
| 28 | When he leaves her for the Gipsy and she dances . |