Example sentences of "[vb infin] leave a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , you do n't need to leave a pair of scissors in there , cos . |
| 2 | Disagreements in the church about the point at which one could not compromise left a legacy of schisms in the Nile valley and in North Africa , where the rancour of the Donatist schism persisted until the Muslim invasions swept them away four centuries later . |
| 3 | The action of the chemical substances will accordingly include leaving a permanent trace in the brain by affecting the processes of recollection ’ . |
| 4 | Any showers will soon clear to leave a fine evening , followed by a cold and clear light with light winds . |
| 5 | Any showers will soon clear to leave a fine evening followed by a cold and clear night with light winds . |
| 6 | ‘ Mr Moreton , Sally is an old friend of mine and if I can not speak to her I would like to leave a message . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Would you like to leave a message for them ? ’ |
| 8 | She listened to his calm voice explaining that he was not available and if she would like to leave a message … but the message she would like to have left was far too complicated , so she rang off without saying anything . |
| 9 | Would she like to leave a message ? |
| 10 | If you 'd like to leave a message , he 'll get back to you . ’ |
| 11 | Eventually , when it comes back to the switchboard , they will know that you 've not answered , and they can say ‘ I 'm sorry , there 's nobody there , would you like to leave a message ’ , in which case , that call will then be diverted to a particular message desk , where they will just take a very brief message which will be passed onto you . |
| 12 | He could n't remember leaving a light on . |
| 13 | But I said I knew you and did he want to leave a message . |
| 14 | ‘ But we do want to leave a legacy , and that means recording five really good albums . |
| 15 | no I did n't want to leave a little , only want to leave a proper little drain things , you know |
| 16 | Allowing for the fact that not every man would hear the call , and that the laird would wish to leave a number of men to guard the place , he then bumped up the arithmetic to suppose nine hundred inhabitants . |
| 17 | So ‘ extended ’ farms will have to leave a wide strip of unsown soil in each field , and let the hedges grow . |
| 18 | They will have to leave a safe distance for it to spread out and to subside . |
| 19 | Loretta had assumed that she would have to leave a message for Jamie with some college functionary , and wait for him to ring back . |
| 20 | One of these days , though , I 'll find an office where there really is a Mr Middleditch and I would have to leave a well-wrapped paperback edition of The Story of 0 . |
| 21 | By the look of him he might well have left a genuine World War Two leather bomber jacket in the bedroom . |
| 22 | Of course , Amy would have left a daughter . |
| 23 | Had his life been prolonged , the writer thought it probable that he would have left a deeper mark on the science of the profession . |
| 24 | And European planetary scientists believe that ESA 's advisers rejected the Kepler mission to Mars mainly because of its cost : at £300 million it was twice as much as ISO , and would have left a gap of four years before anything else could be funded . |
| 25 | Though ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ itself might have left a little to be desired , if was impossible not to enjoy the accompanying media panic . |
| 26 | We could n't have left a tap on , as we had taken the precaution of turning the water off at the mains , so where could it be coming from ? |
| 27 | Oswald and ( probably ) his brother , Oswiu , were the sons of Aethelfrith by Acha , sister of Eadwine ( HE III , 6 ) , and this may have facilitated acceptance of Oswald as king among the Deirans and the restoration of an overkingship , but the deaths of many of the Deiran royal family will have left a political vacuum at the heart of the Deiran kingdom which can not have been immediately filled by Aethelfrith 's sons . |
| 28 | ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury . |
| 29 | The ship that had followed us would have left a record of its course , and ours . |
| 30 | Would the police have left a man at the Rectory in case Amy returned ? |