Example sentences of "leave [pron] for " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He 's going to leave me for you ?
2 Mr Charlwood was a widower with two teenage daughters and did not want to leave them for longer than necessary .
3 So if A sells goods to B who then decides to leave them for A to repair , A is a person who ‘ having sold goods continues or is in possession of the goods , ’ Pacific Motor Auctions v. Motor Credits ( 1965 P.C. ) .
4 ‘ Would you like me to leave you for a while ? ’
5 I forced myself to leave one for you . ’
6 When an agent is cutting a deal , he or she needs to leave something for everyone .
7 She had always been too conscientious , never spared herself , been afraid to leave him for longer than a day , she deserved a rest , a holiday .
8 I do n't want to leave him for long . ’
9 The police took one look at him and decided to leave him for later .
10 When he and Johnson got back to their inn , Boswell ‘ begged permission to leave him for a little while , that I might run about and pay some short visits to several good people of Inverness ’ .
11 Mrs McRobert said that Say continued to threaten to take his own life , blaming his wife 's decision to leave him for his predicament .
12 Julie Warburton , 21 , said Green had her he was in love with her , and added : ‘ He also said he wanted to divorce his wife and wanted to leave her for me . ’
13 There 's too much to be done in the garden to leave it for a week or more .
14 Like many people , however , I decided to leave it for another day .
15 He asked permission to leave it for her the following day .
16 The industry said it would be preferable to leave it for up to a hundred years to allow its radioactivity to decay to a manageable level .
17 If your car breaks down and you have to leave it for help , try to stick to well-lit areas and do not accept a lift from anyone .
18 I think the best thing there would be to leave it for a week ,
19 I was n't going to leave it for much longer at all .
20 She decided to leave it for a while .
21 But you have to leave it for like months .
22 Billy was a tower of strength in Palace 's two years in the 1st Division , 1979–81 , missing only five of our 84 games there , and then his sturdy and dependable displays helped to keep us from further embarrassment after we had returned to Division Two , so that every Palace fan was sorry to see Billy opt to leave us for Portsmouth in the 1984 close season .
23 Probably the best measure of Paul 's capabilities is that he was an ever-present member of the side which took the Palace to the 1976 FA Cup semi-finals and of the promotion team of 1976–77 until he chose to leave us for Tampa Bay Rowdies in February 1977 .
24 I was also dismayed we allowed young Simon Houston , an exciting talented goalkeeper , to leave us for Distillery .
25 If we do n't make a stand now then all of us in this hall will be a living , breathing testament to the betrayal of all those that have gone before us and we 'll leave nothing for anybody coming in the future .
26 ‘ You will leave them for longer than that , if I tell you , ’ Bragg said brusquely .
27 And you shall not strip your vineyard bare , neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard ; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner : I am the Lord your God ’ ( Lev .
28 If necessary , you can leave them for several months and the beetles will continue to feed and reproduce .
29 ‘ I think that either Floy could n't leave them for some reason , or — ’
30 I bought four sets and I 'll leave them for you
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