Example sentences of "he [vb past] leave the " 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 | ‘ The judge agreed to sign a warrant for Thom 's arrest as soon as it was clear he 'd left the country with Eva . ’ |
| 7 | Philip was glad he 'd left the wire and cutters up in the wood . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He 'd left the castles and the monuments behind , he was climbing a dune that was featureless , untouched . |
| 11 | Vito was eating , he 'd left the decision to Don . |
| 12 | He had known where to look for it when he 'd left the bell tower after finding her corpse . |
| 13 | The story was he 'd left the USAF and gone to America to find a job . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Maybe he 'd left the stage of his own accord . |
| 16 | Both things happened months after he 'd left the Southern Laboratory ; neither had anything to do with me . " |
| 17 | After he 'd left the room , it filled up with a stressful silence . |
| 18 | Lorimer had taken charge of this before he 'd left the house . |
| 19 | He 'd left the court before Lucien could stutter an assent . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The sky was dark and threatening and Felipe had looked like that as he 'd left the house . |
| 23 | Dod had agreed with that , but could n't quite remember where he 'd left the van . |
| 24 | Cawthorne had had to duck his head to get in there , but he 'd left the door wide open . |
| 25 | He would have to be seen a.s.a.p. , and would have to come up with a satisfactory explanation of exactly why and when he 'd left The Randolph . |
| 26 | She 'd heard since that he 'd left the health service and gone abroad to work … and now not only was he back , but she was expected to work with him . |
| 27 | I — I found this on the floor after he 'd left the visitors ’ room . ’ |
| 28 | After he 'd left the store , he grabbed the sixty three year-old woman by the throat , knocked her to the ground and punched her , then ran off . |
| 29 | His body was found in the back garden of a neighbour 's house twelve hours after he 'd left the party . |
| 30 | If he found after two or three days that he was n't really making much headway , he would then , after he 'd left the police courts , say to me I think you 'd better go down street or somewhere and see if you can find |