Example sentences of "leave him for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | Previously he had had no worry about her possible infidelity or that she might leave him for a more effective performer . |
| 3 | We 'll leave him for a minute or two , then I 'll test his reflexes . ’ |
| 4 | Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | but then you left him for an American carpenter . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Val left him for the first time since they had set up house , and went briefly ‘ home ’ . |
| 10 | Unexpected , this affected him strongly , indeed left him for the moment in a strange turmoil emotionally . |