Example sentences of "leave [pron] open " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leave them open so that the remaining rabbits are able to escape , hopefully into other burrows or another section of the system where they will provide sport for another day . |
| 2 | As Levine ( 1981 ) points out , the decentralisation , exclusiveness and high degree of autonomy of enterprise unions ( despite their affiliation to industry-wide federations ) sacrifice a high degree of labour movement solidarity and leave them open to at least the possibility of employer influence . |
| 3 | We do not always say what we mean to say , and leave ourselves open to misinterpretation . |
| 4 | Right , leave it open . |
| 5 | Yep , leave it open . |
| 6 | ‘ Leave it open , ’ Ace said . |
| 7 | Or leave it open for some questions if you want to test a ps specific thing in another question then try and test that . |
| 8 | Or it you leave it open and one of the other speakers in the More than One or more of the other speakers in the conversation could decide to start to talking , or no one could erm start talking the present speaker at the moment gets another chance to carry on . |
| 9 | I feel , she thought , as though we are besieged here , as though this were a fortress , and the whole world outside were one enormous enemy , ready to slide through the gates and the thickets of rhododendron and into our front door if we leave it open even a little . |
| 10 | When your stepfather goes to bed , put a light in your sister 's bedroom window and leave it open . |
| 11 | Yeah I know I did n't want to do that just at the moment Yep hand on hang on er I 'm just I 'm looking up again close the phone failure what that one there all right oh I was leaving that one open in case somebody rang through do n't if they ring through ca n't they come straight on if I leave it open ? |
| 12 | We see we see this forum as very much the right sort of forum for either making or breaking the case for a new settlement , the one thing I do have to say , however , is that the Department wants to see this particular issue settled in the context of the alteration , and full significance of that is n't immediately apparent , it , what we do n't want to see is what was envisaged in the H B F statement , where they thought that we might end up with a decision to have a new settlement in principle and then leave it open to the local plans , all four of them around the city , to then explore the possible alternative locations . |
| 13 | Just leave it open . |
| 14 | ‘ But if you favor those with the best chance of succeeding , then you leave yourself open to political attacks from those left out . ’ |