Example sentences of "leaving [pers pn] [prep] [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 | When she comes to Henry VIII in her History of England , she observes that ‘ nothing can be said in his vindication , but that his abolishing Religious Houses & leaving them to the ruinous depredations of time has been of infinite use to the landscape of England in general ’ . |
| 5 | Attempting to duck the consequences of hard decisions by leaving them to the last possible minute or by creating distance through solely informing parents by letter places the initiative in the hands of others . |
| 6 | Because people had seen the recorder being switched off , they ignored the microphones , leaving them within a few inches of their mouths , thus enabling us to record conversation of superb acoustic quality . |
| 7 | He went out , leaving them in a bitter silence . |
| 8 | It makes sense , therefore , if you are going to be a hero and dig a plot two spits deep , to know whether to ‘ double dig ’ ( reverse the spits ) or to ‘ bastard trench ’ ( leaving them in the same position ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ She just dropped dead of a brain tumour at the age of thirty , leaving me with a ten-year-old girl . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Ten per cent of all plants are capable of leaving you with a red itchy rash or skin swelling , ’ adds Steven Wright . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Six or seven has the same effect if you land right , leaving you with an aching crotch and bruised joints if you 're lucky . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Klima 's girl disappears into the Prague bars , leaving him with an imaginary address . |
| 20 | In the sudden brightness Gabriel could see every tree around him , until the light disappeared just as suddenly , leaving him in the blackest darkness . |
| 21 | It also provides the context in which to consider both the claim that for the later Foucault knowledge is absolutely determined , leaving him in the impossible situation of requiring something outside this for any prospect of critique , as well as the question of exactly how power and resistance are interdependent and to what extent they are separable . |
| 22 | If Ramsey was to be Archbishop of Canterbury , what was wrong with leaving him in the weighty see of Durham until the day came ? |
| 23 | But , leaving her for a brief while , he went to instruct Ivo to drive her back to her hotel , and then escorted her out through the front door . |
| 24 | A court was told that Rebecca Frak punched the old lady in the face , leaving her with a bruised eye . |
| 25 | He strode away without giving her a chance to speak , leaving her with the distinct impression that she had just been steamrollered . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She blushed because of his quizzical look which said a great deal and turned everything topsy turvy and her knees to water , leaving her in a worse confusion . |
| 29 | Even as she watched they disappeared over the edge , leaving her in a watery isolation . |
| 30 | They even put him in the coffin and shipped him home instead of leaving it to a local undertaker . |