Example sentences of "[pers pn] leave [pers pn] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would you have preferred I leave you to the tender mercies of your American admirer ? ’ |
| 2 | And I I have n't I with the No it 's very simple , I left it to the select committees of the House of Commons . |
| 3 | Nor on present evidence can you leave it to the internecine politics of the county councils around London , with occasional injections of national politics . |
| 4 | Instead of determining the sex of your children yourself , as bees , crocodiles and other creatures do , you leave it to a genetic lottery between X and Y chromosomes . |
| 5 | Padding out as silently as she came , she left me to the early morning quiet . |
| 6 | If we leave it to the following week of the November , you 've got , there 's ice coming up . |
| 7 | In the replay they left it to the 90th and won in extra-time . |
| 8 | In the replay they left it to the 90th and won in extra-time . |
| 9 | He leaves it to the local man : the local man , whose tremulous reliance on a few patented drugs Hamilton observes with a speechless sneer . |
| 10 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |