Example sentences of "[verb] leave " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the eyes on him were shining as at Kalopetra , when he had been constrained to leave , and she , for a while , had stood to stop him ; stood as close as the flesh on his body . |
| 2 | When an agent is cutting a deal , he or she needs to leave something for everyone . |
| 3 | The reality is that Vietnam needs to leave Kampuchea to stave off economic disaster and to satisfy Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 4 | Nor had he wished to leave the capital a second time . |
| 5 | He had not wished to leave the Commons when he inherited his title in 1895 and thereafter he became an unceasing advocate of the House of Lords , defending its powers , resisting the sale of peerages , and demanding its reconstruction so that its powers could be restored . |
| 6 | However , Nigel had not wished to leave his family and friends for the loneliness of the big city , even though he would have been earning a lot more money . |
| 7 | Ideally it would have been wished to leave the model in the stock overnight , but as the equipment was required by another experimenter the animal was removed . |
| 8 | Her challenger was Denmark 's Dorothe Rasmussen , who tried to leave Marot at 30K . |
| 9 | As the situation went from bad to worse , the people living near the volcano became increasingly distressed , and many tried to leave St Pierre , heading for Fort-de-France , Martinique 's second town . |
| 10 | But I am troubled that he mentions the deaths of British servicemen without any references to the closing of the gates of Mandatory Palestine to the desperate refugees who tried to leave Nazi Germany but found the rest of Europe and the Jewish homeland closed to them . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I tried to leave certain areas vague so they could use their own creativity rather than just copying my cartoon . |
| 13 | Former England spinner Nick Cook clashed with Wasim Akram when the Pakistani all-rounder tried to leave the field during a last-wicket partnership in the tourists ' match against Northants . |
| 14 | Joyce described the scene as he and Mosley tried to leave the pavilion : |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He would certainly notice if they tried to leave signs for Fenella and Caspar to follow . |
| 17 | In the 1980s , in principle at least , government drew back from collusion with pressure groups and tried to leave economic market conditions to decide policy . |
| 18 | I tried to leave him once when he got like this . |
| 19 | She tried to leave , but Tom crossed the room in two strides and took her arm . |
| 20 | A 46-six-year old father of three died after his booby-trapped car exploded and burst into flames as he tried to leave Castle Street car park on April 6 1991 . |
| 21 | The leader of the opposition National Democratic Party of Georgia ( NDPG ) , Georgi Chanturia , was arrested at Tbilisi airport as he tried to leave for Moscow on Sept. 16 , together with his wife Irina Sarishvili and another NDPG leader Vakhtang Talakhadze ( who was released the following day ) . |
| 22 | Let's just say I tried to leave with the minimum of fuss . |
| 23 | At dinner he was utterly silent and tried to leave as soon as he had eaten sufficient but before the table was cleared . |
| 24 | when two men tried to leave the factory in this van which they 'd stolen from the compound . |
| 25 | But when they tried to leave Nepal , officials discovered they were travelling on fake visas , bought in good faith . |
| 26 | The attacker went up to the woman as she rode around an area of the south London Common known as the arena , blocking her path when she tried to leave and twice attempting to pull her from her horse . |
| 27 | Since then , the House of Commons has considered the matter on two subsequent occasions , on the latter resolving to leave things alone . |
| 28 | ‘ I know that you are predisposed to leave things here ; I have employed purely technical means to help you rid yourself of something you wish to regard as a technical problem but behind this eidetic delusion we both know there lies an emotional reality . |
| 29 | ‘ Next time you are in distress I will know to leave you to it . |
| 30 | To try to leave the surface of the planet was out of the question . |