Example sentences of "leave them on the " in BNC.

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1 If they are still growing , it is best to leave them on the plant .
2 ‘ I 'll leave them on the mat inside the door so you can change into them , then your clogs wo n't wake me up from my nap .
3 They were not going to fight any more , and we decided we must leave them on the island .
4 Now I 've got some tables in the car , and if you 'd like me to fetch them during break , I 'll , I 'll leave them on the table for you .
5 For suppose that the disuse of meat causes a permanent distaste for it , and that an increased demand for fish continues long enough to enable the forces by which its supply is governed to work out their action fully ( of course oscillation from day to day and from year to year would continue : but we may leave them on the side ) .
6 I 'm crying a bit as I try and stick the pieces together , but I ca n't do it so I just leave them on the floor and sit back in the chair .
7 But at home you might put an open packet on a bench in the greenhouse or spill some seeds , or leave them on the grass while you run to answer the phone .
8 Leave them on the shore .
9 And leave them on the front .
10 I 'll call you a Pakistani , they wear three t-shirts , I said do you go to bed in them and then just leave them on the next morning put your school shirt on top ?
11 And then leave them on the rack .
12 and leave them on the rack and
13 I just do all my glasses first , and leave them on the draining board
14 The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ?
15 We wondered what stupid idiot had left them on the Tube . ’
16 1992 has left them on the edge of relegation and out of the cup .
17 He stood in the middle of the living room and took off all his clothes , leaving them on the floor where they fell ; then he inspected his naked body , front , back and sides , in the full-length mirror that he had on his living room wall .
18 My master was in the habit , when he was particularly busy with his scientific work , of writing orders on pieces of paper and leaving them on the stairs .
19 Yet , there also appear dangers in resting content with proposing apparent similarities between past and present and leaving them on the table , as it were .
20 ‘ I 'll just see if it 's convenient , ’ she said stiffly and turned away quickly , leaving them on the doorstep .
21 He left them on the road and went and tried again .
22 Florence Ames took off her old shoes and left them on the step .
23 Two days before the 1986 meeting I took my starting blocks home to my flat and left them on the kitchen floor .
24 He took limes from his pyjama pockets and left them on the blankets .
25 She pushed them down and left them on the floor .
26 We left them on the boat while we wandered into the town to discuss with Sunsail a fuel tank that a previous charterer had filled with water instead of diesel .
27 She left them on the stone and again they disappeared .
28 Southwards the long arms of Isambard himself were stretched to receive them ; the fire died on their heels after that brief flare , and left them on the points of English swords .
29 At the wicket he is a Roman general , unquestioning of his own ability to defeat the barbarians ; yet because the pride and haughtiness are justified by having repeatedly proved himself to be the best , one can not resent them , especially since he usually leaves them on the field of combat .
30 She herself paints abstract designs on an L- or U-shaped canvas , and leaves them on the floor or wraps them round a pillar .
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