Example sentences of "leave him to [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 Electing to leave him to his own devices , I wave through the windscreen but he is still fumbling through his camera bag and does n't say goodbye .
2 We will leave him to his nurse . ’
3 Leaving him to his meal , she went into the sitting-room .
4 When 13 , Mackenzie was sent to be educated at a hearing school where the teachers did not know what to do with him , and left him to his own devices a lot of the time .
5 I left him to his problems because it was coming up to the time when Emil had said the crew should board the train , and I was due back in the coffee shop .
6 Cowley took the phone from Roz Hatch as she picked it up and passed it to him , then left him to his privacy .
7 On private land , the State made the pomeshchik responsible for the collection of taxes from his serfs and then left him to his own devices .
8 Left him to his fate .
9 After the first ministrations the Swedes discreetly left him to his agonies .
10 ‘ I promise not to do too much , but I think it will be good for me to keep busy , ’ she said , and left him to his book .
11 Your spirits may be a little duller and your wits a little brighter to-morrow , ’ said Isambard tolerantly , and left him to his uneasy solitude .
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