Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [pers pn] leave the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most awkward and indigestible of all it left the problem of the afrancesados . |
| 2 | With that I leave the door hanging open and disappear fast down a deceptively steep gradient , masked by oily green creeper with wide leaves like Southern fans . |
| 3 | With that he left the room ; end of conversation . |
| 4 | And with that he left the room , closely followed by Matt . |
| 5 | He became a Congregational minister , but his views about God 's inclusive care for the ‘ ’ heathen ’ and his views about the divine revelation in the Bible , brought him into conflict with the narrow-mindedness of some of his congregation , and in 1893 he left the ministry to devote himself to writing . |
| 6 | In 1895 she left the mission to found the Esperance Working Girls ' Club with Mary Neal , and in 1897 she founded the Maison Esperance , a co-operative dressmaking business . |
| 7 | In 1904 he left the teaching profession to become missioner to the deaf in Carlisle for the next thirty-one years . |
| 8 | Although Japanese forces entered French Indo-China in 1940 they left the administration and armed forces intact . |
| 9 | A syndicate was formed to exhibit Merrick , ‘ The Elephant Man , Half-a-Man and Half-an-Elephant ’ , and in 1884 he left the workhouse . |
| 10 | In 1889 he left the lace business in search of larger fortunes and set up as a stockbroker in Nottingham . |
| 11 | None the less , he did succeed in maintaining the rights of the convent and on his death in 1331 he left the priory a considerable estate of books , vestments , plate , and horses . |
| 12 | In 1827 he left the Society of Friends , but throughout his life he remained a staunch supporter of Mechanics ' Institutes and the Chichester Savings Bank , which he helped to establish . |
| 13 | In 1931 he left the stage to write biographies , beginning with a life of his maternal ancestor Erasmus Darwin [ q.v. ] , and following this with The Smith of Smiths ( 1934 ) , a still popular biography of the Revd Sydney Smith [ q.v. ] which carried an inviting introduction by G. K. Chesterton [ q.v . ] . |
| 14 | At first it left the initiative to state and local government but then it progressively took away more and more of it . |