Example sentences of "leave us " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So that is the mess they are going to leave us , because some time before the completion of the single market , we shall have a Labour government . ’ |
| 2 | I am afraid Mrs Frobisher is going to have to leave us now . |
| 3 | But after we 'd pulled over and Jeffrey Bernard had been unwell on the pavement , after the police car had been persuaded to leave us alone , and after we 'd finally got that hefty brute of a Bill Ellis Trophy fully upright again — in its carrying case and everything — I was at least able to start thinking partially straight again . |
| 4 | The effect of peer-group pressure and of change in moral fashion is not necessarily to leave us devoid of values . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you going to leave us ? ’ |
| 6 | We discover that the mysteries in others , which used to leave us baffled and frustrated , now enrich our inner selves . |
| 7 | Billy was a tower of strength in Palace 's two years in the 1st Division , 1979–81 , missing only five of our 84 games there , and then his sturdy and dependable displays helped to keep us from further embarrassment after we had returned to Division Two , so that every Palace fan was sorry to see Billy opt to leave us for Portsmouth in the 1984 close season . |
| 8 | Probably the best measure of Paul 's capabilities is that he was an ever-present member of the side which took the Palace to the 1976 FA Cup semi-finals and of the promotion team of 1976–77 until he chose to leave us for Tampa Bay Rowdies in February 1977 . |
| 9 | When she followed him to Italy I believe she had already made up her mind to leave us and go to him . |
| 10 | This seems to leave us only two options : either to believe anyway ( repressing our doubts and feeling guilty about those that remain ) or to give up faith . |
| 11 | Part of the moulding-power of the modern world is its ability to leave us all blasé . |
| 12 | But she respected what she did not know : when Richard came to visit she always made elaborate — and sometimes embarrassing — excuses to leave us alone together . |
| 13 | D' you think that the Government in Calcutta is prepared to leave us to our fate ? |
| 14 | It is often part of an author 's technique to leave us in some doubt as to what precisely is going on in the fictional world , as Katherine Mansfield does here . |
| 15 | Are you going to leave us here ? |
| 16 | In any case , they seem determined not to leave us alone . |
| 17 | Reform was ‘ a flash of lightning illuminating us for one moment only , to leave us in greater darkness ’ . |
| 18 | Then , obviously wanting to leave us alone , our friend said that he had to go to the village of Lalatta for a short time ; he would be back in twenty minutes , by which time I would have to start making my way back to Lagrimone . |
| 19 | ‘ I think , sir , that it would be better if you — and Aycliffe also — would be so good as to leave us to settle matters to our mutual satisfaction . ’ |
| 20 | The Society 's Vice-Chairman was joining us to walk as far as Horderley ( but then had to leave us ) . |
| 21 | One of the great regrets , I am sure , of all hon. Members is that because the hon. Gentleman has chosen to leave us at the next election he will never have the opportunity to be a junior Minister . |
| 22 | to leave us asking what it was , exactly , |
| 23 | Whereas identification of an E may quite easily be aided by the introduction of a P actually applicable to a different E , to claim completeness of an E and a P when the latter neither helps to identify the former nor is applicable to it is to leave us with a construction which does nothing coherent at all . |
| 24 | If we 're asking for somebody to persuade the giant to leave us in peace , ask those whose hands are highest : " What qualities are going to be needed here ? |
| 25 | Then we can return to the problem of persuading the giant to leave us alone and ask who in the drama has those qualities ? |
| 26 | How can we persuade the Giant to leave us in peace ? |
| 27 | However , as we remarked in Chapter 1 , to identify pragmatics wholly with the truth-conditional apparatus that will handle indexicals is to leave us with no term for all those aspects of natural language significance that are not in any way amenable to truth-conditional analysis . |
| 28 | Erm , and we 've had , I 'm afraid to give protective notice to six members of staff , it 's about er , discussions with the erm , Tech , are not successful , then they will have to leave us at the end of this programme year , which is the thirty-first of March . |
| 29 | What a marvellously exciting point at which to leave us , as it were . |
| 30 | Surprised to find herself so ridiculously pleased by his approbation , she was quickly distracted as Sophie — or was it Emma ? — asked , ‘ You and Uncle Ross are n't going to leave us , are you ? |