Example sentences of "leave [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A challenging game of strategy graphically portrayed in such detailed graphics as to leave me speechless . |
| 2 | Kathy Rooney had to leave me one night when we were dining at the Kensington Hilton , so she took me to the porter to arrange for him to take me upstairs to my room when I was ready . |
| 3 | He never decides to leave me one thing . |
| 4 | Why did you have to leave me all alone down here ? ’ |
| 5 | The upshot of this little matter was to leave me labelled as ‘ Mr X ’ — a pseudonym invented by Harold Wilson and which has attached itself to me throughout the years , but never offensively . |
| 6 | In fact the contemplation of a Roman brick seems to leave me cold — quite cold . |
| 7 | " You certainly gave him your version of how your aunt came to leave me this property , " Matthew said bitterly . |
| 8 | ‘ Monsieur Tollet at the sports centre had to leave me several times to deal with queries . ’ |
| 9 | More often than not Ma starts me off only to leave me stranded above the waterdragon with my–backside wedged into the Young Person 's Patent Toilet Seat Adaptor ( another trophy won from the WI jumble by Pa ) . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'll go out and eat , ’ she said quickly , ‘ I 'll get ready , ’ and she twisted away to the bathroom , which also served as her wardrobe , and slammed the door to leave me alone with McIllvanney and Bellybutton . |
| 11 | Did you tell him to leave me alone ? ’ |
| 12 | On these occasions he was perfectly happy to leave me alone in the attic . |
| 13 | ‘ I wanted him to leave me alone . |
| 14 | ‘ Utterson , ’ said a voice from inside the study , ‘ I beg you to leave me alone ! ’ |
| 15 | You are a kind person — too kind to leave me alone out here in bad weather . |
| 16 | I want you to leave me alone ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The only need I have where you 're concerned is for you to leave me alone , Luke — ’ She froze momentarily as he lifted a hand , passing light fingers over the bright satiny curls at one side of her head . |
| 18 | ‘ I asked you to leave me alone ; I … ’ |
| 19 | PC Jones , of Middlesbrough , told the court : ‘ I pleaded with him to leave me alone . |
| 20 | Are you have you told her to leave me alone ? |
| 21 | Turn them on their side and try not to leave them unattended in case they inhale vomit |
| 22 | Sanding floors : Where old floorboards are very uneven , or you want to leave them exposed and they are badly stained and marked , hire a floor sanding machine . |
| 23 | The Welsh international Dean Saunders also got in on the hat-trick act as Derby County overturned a 2-1 deficit against Cambridge United with a 5-0 victory to leave them 6-2 overall winners . |
| 24 | In this case , the human indexer will be provided with the terms not recognized by the computer , and must decide whether to list them in the golist or the stoplist , or perhaps to leave them unlisted so that they will be output for human indexer consideration on each occurrence . |
| 25 | When we arrived … you ask me how I felt , sister … bad , I felt bad — to leave them all , everyone back in the village . |
| 26 | And then adding all these up , well there 's none of them that add up that we can just add in to any of the others , so we 'll have to leave them all like that , so the answer is just a , a thousand , plus a hundred Y plus ten X , plus X Y. Now if we wanted to multiply , let's say we want to multiply a hundred and three by seventeen , that just means that X is seven , sorry X is three and Y is seven . |
| 27 | By night he kept himself from the usual evenings with Henry and Betty , thinking to leave them some space for a time , and he would often take a sleeping pill at eight , before dinner , because sleep had grown difficult . |
| 28 | We need to leave them some to swim in before we catch them . |
| 29 | The same area saw a direct reversal for the bishops in July , when they had to withdraw their summons to the reforming preachers in the face of strenuous opposition from the local Protestant gentry who complained directly to Mary of Guise ; the regent promptly denied knowledge of the summons and proclaimed the doctrine of love of God and neighbour to the Protestants , while instructing the bishops to leave them alone . |
| 30 | Tomorrow , when I have to tell them how close the Whistler is getting , I may not like to leave them alone after dark . |