Example sentences of "[conj] i had leave " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps one day I would go back to London , and take up my career where I had left off . |
| 2 | Eventually I accepted that I had to leave without my baby . |
| 3 | I felt that I had to leave . |
| 4 | Once I realized I loved her and that she loved me it became clear that I had to leave my wife . |
| 5 | and financial circumstances and erm , this was something of course that I had to leave to the people who were working got himself another job . |
| 6 | It was with deep regret that I had to leave for home later that evening . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm really very sorry that I had to leave you with my mother . |
| 8 | ‘ It was for you that I had to leave that hotel suite and not return until daylight . ’ |
| 9 | As I settled down in the straw-filled barn that I had left a few moments ago in search of food , I looked around at the now sleeping Frenchman , stretched out in the straw . |
| 10 | Now that I had left the college dormitory I used to look fearfully from rime to time out of my window , expecting to see that gang of fascist students coming to beat me up . |
| 11 | I believe now the driver — I did n't see who it was — was checking that I had left the pub . |
| 12 | Can you believe it , I almost forgot that I had left it there ? ’ |
| 13 | In the end I pretended to be worried that I had left my bicycle lamp on and dashed outside to relieve myself in a flower-bed . |
| 14 | Remember that I had left England less than three days before this after an exceptionally grey and dull winter and the bright colours which typify so much Australian knitting were a delight . |
| 15 | I supposed , since to him Neil was only ‘ John Parsons ’ , it did not matter either way , and if Ewen saw the little pile of debris — tins and used paper plates and my thermos — that I had left outside the tent , it would surely go to persuade him that Neil was safely ensconced on the island . |
| 16 | For myself , I pretended that I had left home with full approval , inventing for myself a Harrogate doctor father , fleshing out an imaginary family … . |
| 17 | I forgot that I had left them there , ’ she said , and then , ‘ Oh , Dr Neil , you did n't … ? ’ |
| 18 | Only when she was out of sight and I had turned a corner did I remember that I had left the little willow leaf from her body lying upstairs on her Sophocles . |
| 19 | When , on the third morning I looked for Athman to say goodbye to him , he was nowhere to be found and I had to leave without seeing him again . |
| 20 | ‘ I was tired and I had to leave at approximately five — in about two hours . |
| 21 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 22 | I used to do that when I was working and I had to leave at half four , used to do our kids , see when that clock gets to nine waken me I 'm fucking cold out our Ashley said mummy it 's after nine |
| 23 | At first the thought of going back to work made me shudder because I could n't stand the thought of leaving Danielle for an hour let alone a whole day , but once my husband Dave and I had left Danielle with a babysitter a couple of times , I realised that she would still be there when I came back and that she would be fine . |
| 24 | As you must know , Barbara and I had left the Black Swan before she drowned . ’ |
| 25 | IT 'S NOT easy , in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington , to explain the importance of The Oval cricket ground in Kennington , yet such was my lot when in 1978 , shortly after my family and I had left South Africa following certain differences of opinion with our government , President Jimmy Carter kindly invited my in and asked why we had chosen Britain and not America as our country of refuge . |
| 26 | Mrs had got home in her jeep with just chauffeur and one extra bodyguard , defying the pleas of the other wives , some half an hour after Kaptan and I had left with the Corporal , but she had n't been able to get the Colonel on the military net for nearly two hours after that . |
| 27 | Of course it is easy to look back now and say , well , would anyone have noticed if I had left my shoes lying around the changing room instead of buckling them up inside my satchel when I changed into my gym kit for classes with the Butcher ? |
| 28 | If I had left the move till later it would probably have been much more traumatic . |
| 29 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 30 | If I had left it any later , she would have completely dominated me . " |