Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When they broke for lunch she left the stage very quickly , anxious only to go back to her room . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At this point I left the factory . |
| 8 | Outside the shop I left the engine running |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You could have hit them the moment they left the house . ’ |
| 11 | After the war he left the Crown Film Unit to work with the producer Ian Dalrymple , making three unsuccessful films between 1947 and 1950 . |
| 12 | The wind hit him the moment he left the vehicle , a ferocious gust off the nearby sea which nearly lifted him off his feet . |
| 13 | The moment he left the hall , the Prince strode away from his escort , opened the door of the hut , and stepped inside . |
| 14 | For the moment he left the subject there , and went back to another line of questioning . |
| 15 | Cramer took him back to the moment he left the flat . |
| 16 | And with that subtle remark he left the room . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Throughout the day I left the cottage door open . |
| 19 | Her mother talked and instructed and bustled until the minute she left the house . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was the first communication she 'd had with her since the day she left the convent ignominiously and in dire disgrace . |
| 22 | I applied for membership , but the day approval finally arrived , four years later , was the day we left the valley . |
| 23 | After a while they left the towpath and followed a winding road between high hedges . |
| 24 | Later the same day he left the country . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Though it is dead the minute it leaves the scalp , your hair has a lot to put up with . |
| 27 | One July morning I left the car and , with a heat haze softening the details on the hills in the further distance , turned down the lane at the village 's north-eastern end marked " To the Waterfalls " . |
| 28 | After an angry scene with his father he left the court without permission and rode in haste to Poitou to fortify his castles and towns . |
| 29 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 30 | In the late morning he left the house to walk down Church Row to the garage where he kept his car . |