Example sentences of "[noun prp] leave " in BNC.

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1 Norman Broadbent and Saxton Bampfylde may be regarded as 1980s examples of the same trend which influenced Dr Egon Zehnder to leave Spencer Stuart in 1964 : a desire both for autonomy and for profit .
2 To Leith 's way of thinking , it was hardly polite to ask Travis to leave — especially when , by dint of having a small portion herself , she could manage to stretch the food to another plate .
3 She hardly thought — since it was plain that Naylor would not want to harm the close bond that existed within the family — that he would bluntly tell Travis to leave her alone .
4 ‘ I got Aunt Shiona to leave the train early so we could all spend the night together here . ’
5 Reports of a " deal " allowing Bhutto to leave if she renounced politics were dismissed on Aug 14 as " fictitious " by the Information Minister , Syeda Abida Hussain .
6 ‘ If things were to get worse , if the desire of the people is for Gorbachev to leave everything to deal again with the problems of Russia , then I am ready to do my duty , ’ he was quoted as saying .
7 He wished he could instruct Eleanor to leave a hair grip , but she did n't use any .
8 DS Roach to leave The Bill
9 But oh , she thought , tearlessly watching Mrs Greville leave , how could I have been so deceived — and twice at that … ?
10 Also screening are films from Japan and Korea : WHY DID BODHI DHARMA LEAVE FOR THE EAST ? : the re-issued Kurosawa classic DERSU UZALA and CIRCUS BOYS , by talented young director Kaizo Hayashi .
11 Could n't Dersingham leave it to someone he designated or adopted , something like that ? ’
12 ‘ And perhaps when you see Chatterton leave us you might bring us the lunch menu . ’
13 The references on BMs leave open the issue of how one chooses which switch to consider when .
14 Every year , female free-tailed bats in Mexico leave their mates and fly eight hundred miles up to the southern United States .
15 so much for the new man … what about his partner … what made Glenn Hoddle leave Swindon
16 He tried to hide it , but there was too much of Ewan left not to arouse my suspicions .
17 The rapidly improving Springbok 's stirring 20–16 victory over England B at Bristol on Saturday left Hills quietly confident .
18 Adams left the jewels at Niven 's Hollywood mansion after being arrested for running a call-girl ring .
19 At least John Quincy Adams left the clerk his personal details after the ceremony , unlike one couple married there in 1650 , who went away and ‘ … gave not their names ’ .
20 When Thomas Adams left the Local Government Board in 1914 , Herbert Samuel , the President , was quick to appoint Unwin as Chief Town Planning Inspector .
21 Sgt. Deacon left on 13 May for Mersa Matruh in Hurricane V7771 , the same aircraft he had flown to the island on 29 January .
22 Teams in charge of Stuart Airey and Niall Currie left Cumbria 128–105 ahead of Hampshire at the close .
23 Dustin left to join them at 11.30 .
24 After three very intensive days under the leadership of Lindsay Mitchell , ex Manager of SCOTVEC 's research project on Competency Testing and now employed by Barbara Shelborn Associates , the NDOs left the Workshop to develop their skills by writing Higher National Units in their own occupational areas .
25 Because Uncle Mosse left his door unlocked all the time at the end and he did not mind who came in and out , as he said .
26 At five pm , still counting on over 40 safe hours , Manville left his office .
27 The meeting broke up a short time after , a bewildered Hoskyns leaving more convinced than ever that change would have to be wholesale .
28 Nobel left the world two inventions — dynamite and his eponymous peace price .
29 After a year of One Over The Eight , ( ‘ Kenneth Williams is the best of the genre , ’ wrote Robert Muller in the Daily Mail ) Ken left the cast and his part was taken over by Kenneth Connor .
30 ‘ I was heartbroken , certainly , ’ Jennifer agreed softly at last , ‘ but it was n't over David leaving . ’
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