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 |