Example sentences of "to [be] leave [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They like their subject , and want nothing more than to be left alone to teach it to groups of pupils who want to learn it . |
| 2 | Sometimes I just want to be left alone to do it my way , whether it 's right or wrong . |
| 3 | Wycliffe was not usually so curt with the press , but he was at a stage in the case when he wanted to be left alone to mull over what he knew and to decide what more he needed to know . |
| 4 | At the end of the day most departments have to be left alone to implement policies . |
| 5 | You just want to be left alone to die . |
| 6 | However some elderly people , by contrast , have an acute wish to be left alone to die in their own surroundings with the minimum of attention . |
| 7 | In sub-Saharan Africa , where land hunger is more rare , women tend to be left alone to cultivate and market their produce . |
| 8 | All he wanted , all he hoped for now was to be left alone to come to terms with his plight . |
| 9 | The hero of Simon Gray 's comedy Otherwise Engaged ( 1975 ) , in similar fashion , only wants to be left alone to play his new recording of Wagner 's Parsifal , but he is successively interrupted by neighbour , brother and wife , who succeed in disturbing him and fail only to interest him . |
| 10 | She preferred to be left alone to handle her problem with Silvia — at least until Silvia had had a chance to keep her word . |
| 11 | All I wanted was to be left alone to get on with the job I 'd been trained for and loved . |
| 12 | He wants to be left alone to get on with the job , including completing Knowsley 's ‘ positive futures ’ programme to develop a direct services system for supporting those in need living in the community . |
| 13 | Many people wish to be left alone to get on with their own lives and they must be allowed to do so , and there must also be opportunities for different degrees and different kinds of involvement . |
| 14 | The independent contractor is one who has agreed to do a piece of work , but is to be left free to choose his own method of doing it . |