Example sentences of "[vb past] to leave [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Joyce described the scene as he and Mosley tried to leave the pavilion : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | when two men tried to leave the factory in this van which they 'd stolen from the compound . |
| 6 | she pretended to leave the bwca alone one evening , only to creep to his door and eavesdrop on his singing : |
| 7 | There he proposed to leave a radio truck for communications with the rear . |
| 8 | Next day , Margaret went down to Midhurst to inform Miss Scrimgeour that they proposed to leave the country . |
| 9 | Opposite Manescu a German , Helmut Ziegler , ex-STASI chief in Leipzig , rose to leave the aircraft . |
| 10 | Clarissa promised to leave the front door on the latch and pointed to the ceiling . |
| 11 | We prepared to leave the next day . |
| 12 | Wendell Harvey drew a sigh of satisfaction as , together with a number of other older parents , he prepared to leave the party . |
| 13 | So they both prepared to leave the following day . |
| 14 | The special relationship Finniston forged between top management and the work-force at British Steel is epitomised by the fact that he was given farewell parties by each of the seven major steelworks when he came to leave the corporation at the end of ten years . |
| 15 | We have found no documentary evidence at all to explain how such a large body of men came to leave the 5 Corps area , eventually to turn up in northern Italy . |
| 16 | ‘ When we came to leave the Lamb that afternoon , Mr Barnett , we were all in similar states of intoxication , but Jack had become as maudlin as only an Irishman in liquor can . |
| 17 | No wonder the young bluetits took off like rockets when the time finally came to leave the nest . |
| 18 | Even this would not in itself warrant lengthy description were it not for the fact that Verdun 's peculiarly sinister environment came to leave an imprint on men 's memories that stood apart from other battles of the First War ; and predominantly so in France where the nightmares it inspired lingered perniciously long years after the Armistice . |
| 19 | He said Muslim civilians could be evacuated or were free to stay in the enclave and Serb forces would allow the sick and wounded to leave the area . |
| 20 | Whether Arnold could be blamed for the fire , Mr Reynolds could not be sure , but his comings and goings certainly seemed to leave a trail of mystery and unease . |
| 21 | That seemed to leave a massive hole , which caused them problems . ’ |
| 22 | Since the end of the seventeenth century the Cecils , at Burghley House just outside the town , had controlled the election of both members by a combination of methods that seemed to leave no loophole for a mistake . |
| 23 | They went into the hall together ; then Joe watched Martin take the stairs two at a time , and the maleness of him , his virility seemed to leave an aroma behind him . |
| 24 | It struck me as a bit odd that it never seemed to leave the ground . |
| 25 | This situation , in which other countries were relying on the United States to provide them with the dollars needed to boost their reserves , seemed to leave the USA in a highly privileged position , for the only way that other countries could accumulate reserves was if the USA provided them , by spending abroad more than it received . |
| 26 | I retreated to leave the master to it and lay happily in the sun . |
| 27 | Massingham hated to leave a scene of crime even temporarily while the body was still there , and he would go the more unwillingly because Kate Miskin , back now from Campden Hill Square , was to stay . |
| 28 | Last night a furious Mrs Rorstad vowed to leave the town , saying : ‘ I 'm going to quit this place as soon as my house is sold . |
| 29 | Bronwen ap Bryn said , as she stroked her tattooed scalp thoughtfully and turned to leave the sick-bay . |
| 30 | Half convinced , she shrugged philosophically and turned to leave the apartment 's square entrance hall in which they were standing , aware of Luke following her into the luxuriously appointed lounge , a long elegant room which ended in sliding glass doors opening on to a balcony with a view she had spent part of the afternoon enjoying , pretty green parkland dotted with ornamental ponds linked by a winding , deeply cut stream that was spanned by the occasional arched stone bridge . |