Example sentences of "leave [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to cut them all up and they used to leave me the legs , you know , the hams and the backs and they used to have a few joints off and take home and then the rest I used to lay it , put it into bacon down the cellar . |
| 2 | I mean , I expect she knew how you felt about the only things worth having being the things you 'd worked hard for and earned for yourself , so you would n't want her to leave you the house ] But she did n't want you to think she 'd forgotten you , or that she was just being spiteful , or something … ’ |
| 3 | He had been angered by her obvious , if unspoken , suspicion that he had persuaded the old lady to leave him the half share of the house . |
| 4 | When Edward Thomas entered the History Eighth at St. Paul 's in January 1894 , he was at least seventeen months younger than the seven pupils who had joined the class in the previous July or September and who were to leave it the following June . |
| 5 | I suppose there he he did n't like to leave it the way , the way it was done |
| 6 | ‘ You 'd better leave me the matches , then . ’ |
| 7 | It occurred to me this was not an ideal arrangement ; I had a funny , cold feeling in the middle of dinner that perhaps we had been wrong to delay matters until this last moment , where there could be no immediate follow-up , when I must leave him the next day . |
| 8 | Well if he was sleeping you could leave him the car . |
| 9 | Now a lot of people leave them the bonuses in there to accrue for tax or whatever , new car or holidays . |
| 10 | Yes I I was erm the additional information that was available to me at this time , er Sergeant the er having left me the previous night er had actually , had gone to the premises erm , gone to the flats erm and had er put himself in the area of the flat and was able to tell me that he had heard voices , two male voices coming from within the flat . |
| 11 | The plan of ‘ systematization ’ if it had been carried through would have left them the only repositories of folk-culture and architecture , since the threefold slogan ‘ Systematization — Modernization — Civilization ’ would have left little of what remained unscarred . |
| 12 | But he had left them the inestimable advantage of the eighty Normans on their strong horses . |
| 13 | Had he not left them the night before , exclaiming : ‘ I am off to the Palace to throw in my hand ’ ? |
| 14 | But yesterday Mr and Mrs Lewis said they were disgusted at the situation , which had left them the victims . |
| 15 | ‘ Home to bed , ’ said George , ‘ in your case , and leave me the file . |
| 16 | I 'd left you the full address , and the telephone number and a fully detailed map . |
| 17 | He ate in the canteen , spoke with some of the robots , wandered into the sitting room where Roirbak had left him the stack of films , rejected every one as boring , and decided to do a little exploring . |
| 18 | Their parents are called away and they are left him the care of servants . |
| 19 | He wished they 'd left him the radio mast , so that he could at least listen to some music and pick up the news . |
| 20 | His years in the ring had left him the legacy of being quick on his feet , and he caught Larsen some twenty yards short of the door . |
| 21 | Her husband had left her the year before for some Tex-Mex bitch , claiming that she was too boring to live with . |
| 22 | And Peregrine Worsthorne has left her the word ‘ embonpoint ’ , which he used in court , among other circumlocutions , to describe her appeal . |
| 23 | Isabelle might have left her the case , but she 'd hidden these things away , making sure they would n't be discovered at least while her husband was alive . |
| 24 | Her desperate , unreasoning terror had left her the moment Penry Vaughan hurtled through the door . |
| 25 | He thought to himself , right , you 've called the boy Hilbert to please me , to make me like him , so I damn well will like him , I 'll like him more than you and leave him the place over your head . ’ |
| 26 | I shall hire Benedict to live with me and leave him the place in my will ! ’ |
| 27 | PW 's overall European results ( up 8% to £837m ) still leave it the smallest of the Big Six in Europe . |
| 28 | But the longer you leave it the worse your chances are going to get . |
| 29 | You leave it the way God intended it . ’ |
| 30 | The longer you leave it the more likely you are to profit from the upward trend in equities established now for nearly a century . |