Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] leave the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Without so much as a backward glance she left the room , indignation clear in the rigidity of her spine as his mocking laugh rang out behind her . |
2 | On both walks we left the railway near the station and turned left along the Hendre Ddu Tramway . |
3 | We noticed that quite often if people ate the sandwich they left the cake , or vice versa , so when we used to collect the trays from them we would take whatever was left . |
4 | In other words it leaves the format open to the department concerned ? |
5 | His effectiveness in this , his finest hour , was admired as his arrogance and conflict of interest were deplored , and he was made governor of the new colony of British Columbia on condition he leave the company . |
6 | When they broke for lunch she left the stage very quickly , anxious only to go back to her room . |
7 | When he was nine he read Hamlet , no doubt a copy from his father 's bookshop , and , as he told Mrs Thrale later , when he came to the ghost scene he left the kitchen fireside and stood reading at the street door in Lichfield in order to ‘ have people about ’ . |
8 | Whatever may have been the cause , the whole thing was all too much for 18-year old Francis Burke , the youngest man on board : on 31 July he left the ship , thus reducing its crew to 11 men . |
9 | I should say at once I was not harbouring any weirdo Lawrentian notion that the lightning had zapped the little cow back to life the moment I left the turret ; for one thing there was the matter of missing parts . |
10 | At this point I left the factory . |
11 | Outside the shop I left the engine running |
12 | To Joan , he confessed that he was ‘ not sure ’ so often that at one point she left the boat , determined to have the child on her own . |
13 | ‘ After two years she left the course . |
14 | Note 1.2.10 Despite the remarks above on economy of effort we shall prove here only the equivalence of I and W. We leave the reader to prove that |
15 | You could have hit them the moment they left the house . ’ |
16 | After the war he left the Crown Film Unit to work with the producer Ian Dalrymple , making three unsuccessful films between 1947 and 1950 . |
17 | The wind hit him the moment he left the vehicle , a ferocious gust off the nearby sea which nearly lifted him off his feet . |
18 | The moment he left the hall , the Prince strode away from his escort , opened the door of the hut , and stepped inside . |
19 | For the moment he left the subject there , and went back to another line of questioning . |
20 | Cramer took him back to the moment he left the flat . |
21 | And with that subtle remark he left the room . |
22 | After a while I left the family room and wandered through the great central hall and on into the far side of the house , into Perkin 's workroom . |
23 | Throughout the day I left the cottage door open . |
24 | Her mother talked and instructed and bustled until the minute she left the house . |
25 | It was absorbing work , scrambling over the rocks , especially hampered by a hat in one hand , so after a while she left the hat on a dry plateau beside a pool and pursued her way unencumbered . |
26 | It was the first communication she 'd had with her since the day she left the convent ignominiously and in dire disgrace . |
27 | I applied for membership , but the day approval finally arrived , four years later , was the day we left the valley . |
28 | After a while they left the towpath and followed a winding road between high hedges . |
29 | Later the same day he left the country . |
30 | And at the foot of the iron structure was a high steel fender , suggesting from its dull surface that it had never seen emery paper since the day it left the foundry . |