Example sentences of "leaving [pron] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dick wrote : " He has a happy personality and puts people at their ease , leaving them with a pleasant impression … |
| 2 | Following James 's defeat , more Catholic land was confiscated , leaving them with a mere 14 per cent share of Irish territory . |
| 3 | She had found a retired garda sergeant and his wife , whose family had grown and scattered , leaving them with a large house and room to spare . |
| 4 | And so it proved for Paula , whose father died when she was 29 ‘ leaving me with no senior protector and no-one to love me unconditionally . |
| 5 | ‘ She just dropped dead of a brain tumour at the age of thirty , leaving me with a ten-year-old girl . |
| 6 | Look out for models that are freestanding when folded and which can be collapsed using one hand only , leaving you with a spare arm to hold the baby . |
| 7 | ‘ Ten per cent of all plants are capable of leaving you with a red itchy rash or skin swelling , ’ adds Steven Wright . |
| 8 | An employee was made redundant and handed a letter saying that the cheque for £1000 which accompanied it constituted a ‘ lump sum payment for severance ( including redundancy payment ) , the acceptance of which is final settlement leaving you with no outstanding claim against the Council ’ . |
| 9 | Six or seven has the same effect if you land right , leaving you with an aching crotch and bruised joints if you 're lucky . |
| 10 | Antiques they may be , but one good reason for choosing a record deck so late in the day is that , unlike CD , the technology is tried and tested and not susceptible to the great leap forward , leaving you with an obsolete model . |
| 11 | TWO teenagers who attacked a group of sixth-formers after a party , leaving one with a double fracture of the jaw , were yesterday locked up by a judge . |
| 12 | Piper suddenly had the crazy idea that all the Doctor 's masks had been stripped away , leaving him with no more armour than the truth . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Amex 's chairman , James Robinson , took an $800,000 cut in pay last year because of poor profits , leaving him with a miserly $1,798,077 . |
| 14 | Blissett , 28 , had been accused of ‘ cynically and deliberately ’ thrusting his elbow into Uzzell 's face in a mid-air duel , leaving him with a fractured cheek bone and eye socket . |
| 15 | Klima 's girl disappears into the Prague bars , leaving him with an imaginary address . |
| 16 | A court was told that Rebecca Frak punched the old lady in the face , leaving her with a bruised eye . |
| 17 | He strode away without giving her a chance to speak , leaving her with the distinct impression that she had just been steamrollered . |
| 18 | Worst of all , her self-image was low with the best years of her life fast disappearing , taking her previous good health with it and leaving her with the excess baggage . |
| 19 | He looked at her doubtfully , as troubled at leaving her with the distressed child as Edna had been at leaving Liza with Celia a short time before . |
| 20 | Police are searching for people who attacked a pony , leaving it with a gaping wound six inches long in its leg . |
| 21 | An alternative would therefore be to use a UK-resident Newco for the share/debenture exchange and , to circumvent the capital gains tax disadvantage of this , it could soon after the acquisition transfer its stake in Target to the partnership by way of a capital distribution , leaving it with the loan-note obligations to the vendor shareholders and the cash to meet such obligations . |
| 22 | He develops a theory which accounts for changing attitudes in terms of largely unexplained swings between ‘ matrist ’ and ‘ patrist ’ cultures , leaving us with a grandiloquent but unsubstantiated cyclical theory of social change . |
| 23 | Such surveys are , of course , confidential leaving us with a cold set of statistics and meaningless fractions such as . |
| 24 | Now sad to say all the little businesses have gone , leaving us with the beautiful church and small post office . |
| 25 | I roll a joint and turn off the bright neon , leaving us with the sultry lilac glow of a smaller and older lamp , the first I ever bought . |