Example sentences of "leave [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 31 | A 13-month-old London boy drowned when he fell off a ‘ topple-proof ’ bath chair while his mother had left him for a few moments . |
| 32 | Most memorable was Tory , haughtily holding her very intelligent head in the air , but missing her husband , who had left her for a ‘ woman officer ’ . |
| 33 | He had only managed to persuade her to join the company because her husband had recently left her for an older woman and she needed to get away from London . |
| 34 | Just leave it for a while . ’ |
| 35 | Time is a great healer so , rather than press on with a manoeuvre that is repeatedly failing , leave it for a while and come back to it later . |
| 36 | Leave it for a year , and you 'll have established a pattern which will be hard to break . |
| 37 | All you do is add water and leave it for a month . |
| 38 | At this stage , it is a good idea to cover the picture with glass and leave it for a while . |
| 39 | Leave it for a while . ’ |
| 40 | If you accidentally stain walls with woodworm fluid , leave it for a week or two , and if it still shows , coat it with an aluminium primer before redecorating . |
| 41 | So have a look through your book have a very quick glance at erm if you can just at an acid alkali one , at one side of an equation co try not to read it cover it up write it down and leave it for a few minutes till you 've forgotten if you did accidentally see what was on the other side till you 've forgotten it . |
| 42 | Place the stem of a stick of celery in some dyed water and leave it for a few hours . |
| 43 | In this case , leave it for a few months and try going again later . |
| 44 | Leave it for a minute or two . |
| 45 | And then when I get to school , I do , I have to pour all the water into the tank , and leave it for a couple of hours and at break time put the fish into the into the mix water |
| 46 | leave it for a few minutes , then start it up again . |
| 47 | Well , you can bi what I tend to is is get a coat on er , first thing in the morning , another coat in the afternoon and then leave it for a week . |
| 48 | If you leave it for a while , the reeds invade , and there 's no expanse of water at all . |
| 49 | Leave it for an hour , until the bulk of the whey has drained off , and transfer the curd , still in its cloth , to the mould . |
| 50 | otherwise we leave it for an evening just have general , I mean if we can she wants us to do the whole twenty , she said she 'd be delighted , there was Yorkshire Television on her car keys |
| 51 | My first girlfriend left me for a new man . |
| 52 | Sometimes I would catch her looking at me with such intensity of feeling that my breath left me for a moment . |
| 53 | you left me for a classical guitarist . |
| 54 | Recently deserted by her husband Cruncher ( ‘ He left me for a wee young thing of 58 ’ ) she 's found it hard enough to make ends meet in the past . |
| 55 | Her husband left her for a job in the Arabian Gulf one year ago , and apart from regular maintenance , neither she nor the children have heard from him since . |
| 56 | He left her for a time to find prey and brought back a hare from the moorland tops , tearing it up and gently feeding her with parts of it . |
| 57 | A stunning young woman whose husband left her for a woman twenty years older than himself , never forgave him for it . |
| 58 | But , leaving her for a brief while , he went to instruct Ivo to drive her back to her hotel , and then escorted her out through the front door . |
| 59 | So erm , anyway I went back in to him , I kept going up and down , I left him for a while , but he does n't normally cry like that |
| 60 | but then you left him for an American carpenter . |