Example sentences of "leave [pron] [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | They can put the case for the minister 's decision , copy his style , anticipate hostile points and leave him feeling at a great advantage in any conflict . |
2 | And then he started to walk away , leaving me staring at a bare wall . |
3 | So high were these prison walls , indeed , that they left you wondering at the build of the common Italian criminal . |
4 | I ask your pardon for leaving you waiting at the door , but I 'm pressed , Owen , the days crowd me , and there are things I must set forward while I may . |
5 | When she gave him the number he just rang off and left her staring at the phone . |
6 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |