Example sentences of "leaving we [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Before leaving we cemented our friendship with the local schoolteacher 's family by giving their small daughter a birthday joyride round the bay in our dory . |
| 2 | Before leaving we wrote to the Ministry of Defence asking if any further information was available concerning the operation in which my brother lost his life . |
| 3 | Which reminded me : the night before leaving we received a call from Dave . |
| 4 | To those leaving we say thank you for your efforts during an especially difficult past two years and to those coming on board for the first time we wish you every success in the future . |
| 5 | Lucidly , for instance , he explains how to counteract the ‘ around the next corner ’ syndrome which bugs all painter-travellers ; that will o' the wisp that tempts us all to go on ad infinitum , seeking the ‘ perfect ’ view , leaving us dispirited and fruitless . |
| 6 | He was young and madly enthusiastic for all things meteorological , with the exception of the teleprinter which he was always messing up , getting the paper stuck and so on , and leaving us to sort it out when we came on duty . |
| 7 | In the latest example of this phenomenon , high on the massive granite sweep of South Ridge on Arran 's Cir Mhor , a pristine copy of Howett 's Constable compendium decided to play truant — and landed , incredibly , within a few feet of my rucksack below , leaving us to puzzle out the route unaided . |
| 8 | They all accepted the newcomers , leaving us to deal with our discomfort . |
| 9 | At 10.00 pm the Corporal came round to check that we were all present and in bed before turning the lights out and leaving us to sleep . |
| 10 | The storm that night raged unappeased , obliterating our tracks and leaving us shivering and miserable . |
| 11 | We contested the decision vigorously , encouraged by strong support from outside the institution , but it did bring a significant and positive stage to an abrupt conclusion , leaving us to reflect on what we had learned , and were still learning , that might be relevant to widely shared concerns . |
| 12 | He scampered nimbly ahead through the crowd with his friends — leaving us trapped behind a leisurely army of elderly women . |
| 13 | For the rest of us crying is a hit or miss experience , sometimes satisfying but sometimes leaving us drained , exhausted or more hopeless than when we started . |
| 14 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |