Example sentences of "[vb past] i [vb mod] leave " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always assumed I 'd leave school and get a ‘ proper ’ job , then get married , have kids and look after my family in a modest little house . |
| 2 | He once said he thought inheritance should be banned and I asked him if that meant I should leave all our money to his brother ! ’ said his father . |
| 3 | Today I felt I could leave things no longer , so I had a word with a colleague in the Home Office . |
| 4 | They all seemed pleased , as if I belonged ; but I knew I would leave them again before summer , would walk out of the brightly lit play , and go back to the shadows and solitude of fiction . |
| 5 | He nods morosely , as if he always knew I would leave him , and he tries to impress on me that I have to disappear out of sight . |
| 6 | I knew I must leave him alone . |
| 7 | But er eventually I found out that er , er , I ca n't er work peacefully here , because if I stopped for er , fighting for the benefit of the workers then er they will think that er I have been bribed or something like this and if I keep fighting for them then there 's no peace of mind , there 's always struggle , so I thought I 'll leave , and the second was , that I wanted to bring my family into this country and I was n't saving anything while leaving them because that 's a bit expensive area and er , the person who got the job for me he said let's migrate to Yorkshire . |
| 8 | Cos I was sort of like listening to my music and it was , I think it was about half eight , nine o'clock cos I 'd only got some homework done for ne , to do for next Tuesday , so I thought I 'll leave it |
| 9 | I never even noticed him come back cos I thought I 'll leave back door unlocked and he come in and he put me hat and me keys down there , cos I noticed |
| 10 | No er I thought I 'll leave it till tomorrow and then |
| 11 | ‘ I thought I would leave a few of you on the G'bai side of the mountains with the pack beasts . |
| 12 | I thought it was too late to call that night , I thought I 'd leave it until the morning . |
| 13 | I thought I 'd leave this one now cos I need some Playdoh to carry on with it really . |
| 14 | Thought I 'd leave that little erm portable running this afternoon . |
| 15 | Well I phoned them and said , I thought I 'd leave it till this morning . |
| 16 | I thought I 'd leave that in the car actually |
| 17 | Well anyway George did tell me when I popped in after the funeral erm that you were hoping you 'd be here today , I said , oh well I said I 'll leave this here then you can . |
| 18 | So I said I 'll leave you to think about that . |
| 19 | scraped it all in and I said I 'll leave it in dish cos it 's a dog doggy dish went back in house and , oh what did I come back for ? |
| 20 | I said I 'll leave mine out for the bloody bin men before I take it down the tippy . |
| 21 | she said that and she said she do n't mind us swearing she said I 'll leave you fourteen , it actually says twenty tapes in the , bits of paper but she said if you could fill twenty I 'd be over the moon did she say ? |
| 22 | He said I could leave it with him and he 'd sort it out . |
| 23 | Everybody knew and said I should leave , but it 's not so easy to leave your home and all the furniture I 'd bought when I was on the railway . |
| 24 | " I said I 'd leave them to him . " |
| 25 | I said I 'd leave it pinned to the noticeboard above the communal phone and he said that was probably best and good night . |
| 26 | ‘ I said I 'd leave . ’ |