Example sentences of "leave their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some African tribes leave their elderly to die by the rivers and waterholes so that the wild animals will eat them . |
| 2 | Trams make news when they unexpectedly leave their predictable rails , as the pictures on this page show : |
| 3 | Many leave their personal weapons for safe keeping in the armoury , as happened in the Susan Allen case . |
| 4 | They have their hind shoes removed , just in case they kick , but I leave their front shoes on to protect their hooves . |
| 5 | What happens to people ten years later who leave their small town and go to the big city to find work ? |
| 6 | runaways — those who leave their normal residence without permission |
| 7 | They leave their civilian jobs , and instead of heading for home and a quiet night in front of the television , report in to their company bases , change into military uniform and are briefed for the night 's patrol tasks , which will take them through until the early hours of the morning , When they again become civilians . |
| 8 | Medved accuses Steven Spielberg of using his Peter Pan story , Hook , to advance his theme of kids being good and adults bad ; while the storyline of Home Alone , about parents who accidentally leave their eight-year-old son behind when they go on holiday , promotes a picture of adult ineptitude and childhood self-sufficiency . |
| 9 | Scots per day … that all servants that shall be found to be fourty days out of service after they Leave their former Masters and not engaged with ane oyr. master shall pay ten merks Scots of fine , and that every woman that shall be found out of service as above to pay five merks Scots of fine … " 1729 . |
| 10 | He said because people leave their dirty things and beds and all this kind of thing . |
| 11 | They leave their mundane business and material world outside the garden , and perform the rites of the perception of beauty . |
| 12 | Such bombs often smash into other bigger , stationary boulders at the base of the cone , shattering into smithereens , but in doing so they leave their own mark on the boulder . |
| 13 | Oh yes , they , they , they 've , they 've , they even leave their own head collars and ropes in . |
| 14 | Standing no more than a foot high , they seldom leave their subterranean homes , for exposure to sunlight will turn them to stone . |
| 15 | They leave their filthy newspapers in the loo ! ’ |
| 16 | In his introductory lecture , Eliot quotes W. P. Ker 's praise of Browning and nineteenth-century poets whose ‘ themes are taken from all the ages and countries ; the poets are eclectic students and critics , and they are justified , as explorers are justified ; they sacrifice what explorers sacrifice when they leave their native home . ’ |
| 17 | Well , we have our own gifts , but the presentation of food is not one of them , and since French cooks and food purveyors so often appear to lose the lightness of their touch in this respect when they leave their native land and settle abroad , one can only conclude that the special stimulant which brings these gifts into flower is in the air of France itself . |