Example sentences of "he [vb past] leave [art] " in BNC.

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1 As he made to leave the chamber , Deems said , ‘ If you perceive that the Emperor does not trust you , why continue faithful ? ’
2 Outside in London , if he cared to leave the flat , he would have found an atmosphere , an edge , that any man of twenty-five with money in his pocket and an afternoon like that behind him should have delighted in .
3 He issued a decree , which was to be read in all churches , excommunicating Gaveston if he failed to leave the kingdom by the set date ( 25 June 1308 ) or afterwards tried to return ; all those who assisted the favourite in either offence were encompassed in the sentence .
4 As he tried to leave the field the ball suddenly dropped at his feet and he attempted a long-range crossfield pass aimed at Gordon Strachan .
5 He tried to leave the chair and go , but did n't badly enough want to , and carried on with a furious daydream of what the trades-union movement might come to represent again in England , although England was only half his country .
6 There he proposed to leave a radio truck for communications with the rear .
7 ‘ Finished it , ’ he concluded for her , and Leith knew then that if Naylor Massingham had been looking to find fault with her work then plainly he 'd left no stone unturned .
8 He forgot to take his ten pence out of the slot where he 'd had it ready , and he 'd left a pile of tens and fives sitting on top of the directories .
9 She 'd only been in Dane 's company for a matter of days , but he 'd left a mark on her , a mark it could prove impossible to erase .
10 It would n't have surprised her in the slightest if he 'd left a few minutes early , just for the pleasure of leaving her stranded .
11 I said at the time of Robert Maxwell 's death that he 'd left a trail of wreckage across the city .
12 And when I saw the landlady there she said that she did have a Mr there but he 'd left a few days ago , did n't know where he 'd got to .
13 I did n't even know he 'd left a
14 ‘ The judge agreed to sign a warrant for Thom 's arrest as soon as it was clear he 'd left the country with Eva . ’
15 Philip was glad he 'd left the wire and cutters up in the wood .
16 He cut up through the forest to where he 'd left the shotguns and followed the treeline round to the left until he hit a shallow ravine almost opposite the cabin .
17 Maggie would have left at that point , but as her bed was in the kitchen she could n't get into it until after he 'd left the room .
18 He 'd left the castles and the monuments behind , he was climbing a dune that was featureless , untouched .
19 Vito was eating , he 'd left the decision to Don .
20 He had known where to look for it when he 'd left the bell tower after finding her corpse .
21 The story was he 'd left the USAF and gone to America to find a job .
22 It had grown stale and ugly and he 'd left the Party the first time they sent the tanks in , but he did n't stop believing in the dream , the illusion , the myth , any more than he stopped believing in the Devil just because he did n't think there was a God .
23 Maybe he 'd left the stage of his own accord .
24 Both things happened months after he 'd left the Southern Laboratory ; neither had anything to do with me . "
25 After he 'd left the room , it filled up with a stressful silence .
26 Lorimer had taken charge of this before he 'd left the house .
27 He 'd left the court before Lucien could stutter an assent .
28 He 'd left the local school as early as his birthday would allow and had n't really done anything for the following year except watch his father die .
29 but erm then became , we got round to the erm question of getting the children into similar schools to the ones that they 'd been in and erm I came into this , in fact I came into all sorts of things erm well by accident then I suppose anyway not for any other reason but erm Mr erm who was the Secretary for Education , he had a Personal Assistant a chap named erm erm he was a very likeable chap erm and er a rather ec bit of an eccentric really because erm he 'd been erm , he 'd trained as a doctor and erm he 'd left the course before completing it .
30 The sky was dark and threatening and Felipe had looked like that as he 'd left the house .
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