Example sentences of "[conj] then leave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doctor trekked through the driving snow behind the girl , and then left her downstairs to go and tend to the mother . |
| 2 | A trickster who constantly committed adultery — and then left her facing a mountain of debt . |
| 3 | But there seemed to be no way of keeping her out of trouble ; her maid , ‘ seeing discomfort on every side ’ , first refused to obey her , and then left her . |
| 4 | Nancy , ever vague , led Molly towards a pair of high double doors and then left her to talk to an English couple coming up behind them . |
| 5 | She started to think that she had a vocation for taking heroic decisions , but it was really nothing more sustaining than a rabid kind of recklessness that erupted suddenly and then left her feeling bleak and inept . |
| 6 | This had happened to Shona , whose boyfriend encouraged her to have the baby , and then left her , with the result that whenever any subsequent boyfriends have tried to get close , she becomes cold and distant , they can not understand and eventually leave her . |
| 7 | You loved her , for a while , and then left her . |
| 8 | He saw her safely checked in and then left her , his last words calculated to wound . |
| 9 | On Junction Buttress , Malc Taylor put All my Pegs in one Basket and then left them in the obvious overhanging crack , which is now E7 6c . |
| 10 | ‘ Go up to the front row and keep two chairs , ’ he directed and then left them . |
| 11 | ‘ I reckon someone nicked them and then left them here ! ’ |
| 12 | The imperial presence was manifest : those who attended had the advantage of travelling on the imperial transport system ; the structure of the Council mirrored that of senatorial procedure , the 318 fathers ( a traditional number — actual attendance was more likely to have been about 250 ) gathered in a hall of the imperial palace ; Constantine spoke asking them to restore concord , and then left them to themselves . |
| 13 | It is good because Léon Bonn at , a loyal son of Bayonne , first collected these pictures and then left them to the town , which responded by building a small palace in which to show them . |
| 14 | She gave her daughter a look which combined challenge and malice and then left them . |
| 15 | Yorkshireman George Duffield , whose previous St Leger ride was on a pacemaker 12 years ago , said : ‘ She just quickened up alongside them , and then left them for dead . ’ |
| 16 | On private land , the State made the pomeshchik responsible for the collection of taxes from his serfs and then left him to his own devices . |
| 17 | ‘ I love you , ’ she whispered , and then left him to speak . |
| 18 | You drew me through the undergrowth out into the light and then left me bare and hurting . |
| 19 | I had recently had my little girl , her dad had walked out on me , and I thought he was just another man who had what he wanted and then left me . |
| 20 | ‘ But if they only looked at me coldly , and whispered behind their hands about me , and then left me one by one ? ’ |
| 21 | Then , with Nina sitting in front of her and watching carefully , Ricci opened 10 nuts ( of which Nina ate six whole ones , and part of the rest ) and then left her daughter to carry on . |
| 22 | He made one last check — as best he could — in the tiny shaving mirror in the bathroom and then left his apartment . |
| 23 | That God created the world and then left it to a forsaken humanity , trying to address Him in an echoless void — this idea is n't new . |
| 24 | Having iced the cake with a plain layer of royal icing and then left it to dry , I have made copies of small pressed flower pictures both on the top , as a centrepiece , and with small sprays around the sides of the cake . |
| 25 | Brian needed to shit so I gave him a plastic bag and then left it in the bathroom . |
| 26 | " He 'd have had to have opened the door and then left it open when he reset the alarms . |
| 27 | So I was mentally on my toes as I took a floater into the city and then left it , mingling with all the pedestrians thronging the walkways . |
| 28 | ‘ Shit , ’ he said to the empty room , and then left it to chew on the idea . |
| 29 | I s I , I never really played with Windows , I just installed it to do the job of running this one application and then left it alone . |
| 30 | Including , she thought bitterly , playing with her life , throwing it all out of focus and then leaving her . |