Example sentences of "leave [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But in any case , you had no right to leave me at that pub all night . |
| 2 | He had intended to leave them at the station , but the Left Luggage Office , he had just been reminded , closed at 9.30 . |
| 3 | Instead of wooing the only people who should really matter — the fans — soccer often seems to leave them at the bottom of their list of priorities . |
| 4 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 5 | Newton , who celebrated by clubbing in London 's West End , has played in every position for Chelsea — including goalkeeper for part of a reserve game — and Porterfield must be tempted now to leave him at the front for the next test against Middlesbrough . |
| 6 | Mr Sunderland himself had driven her home in his car , and she had begged him to leave her at the gate so as not to alarm her family . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't like to leave her at night . |
| 8 | ‘ Since Maisie was taken ill I have found it even more difficult to leave her at home sometimes , ’ she says . |
| 9 | Having stumped up £250 to help sponsor a general practitioners ' management meeting in Nottingham , the Royal Bank of Scotland saw fit to leave it at that . |
| 10 | I am inclined to leave it at that . |
| 11 | Once you have completed your design , you must ensure that you cover it with a sheet of glass should you have to leave it at any time . |
| 12 | He could be quite maddening at times , but I had my own concerns and had to leave it at that . |
| 13 | He is not content , however , to leave it at that : to recognise that the perception of and attention to objectivity varies culturally while claims to objectivity itself are often more biased than is realised . |
| 14 | Though this derives from psychological studies of covert actions types , it would be waste to leave it at that . |
| 15 | Nobody except his lawyers and myself know his whereabouts or have an address and it might be as well to leave it at that . |
| 16 | Clearly something does happen in higher education ; it is not enough to argue that it trains an elite and to leave it at that . |
| 17 | So — strictly speaking — it is not correct to say that it ‘ happened ’ in the seventeenth century and to leave it at that . |
| 18 | Without meaning there is only suffering , and I was not going to leave it at that . |
| 19 | Cassie was content to leave it at that . |
| 20 | " Ah , " said the niece , preparing to leave it at that . |
| 21 | In view of his instructions Fowler decided to leave it at that . |
| 22 | At first it seemed that Francis was going to leave it at that , the ball in his court , but in fact he was trying to decide which would annoy her most : being kept in the dark about his conversation with Anna or knowing the truth . |
| 23 | I am very , very relieved and obviously taking advice on the next steps because naturally I am not going to leave it at this . ’ |
| 24 | His expression warned him to leave it at that . |
| 25 | Daddy has to leave it at the garage . |
| 26 | But that is easier to leave it at Pam 's you see . |
| 27 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 28 | At Sussex we actually make a third of the time they spend on the university component of their courses compulsory work in science — that is to say every student does it — so we can actually do something about it practically by looking at our processes of initial training and coming to realise what an important section of the world this is and training teachers accordingly , and not to leave it at that but to continue with erm progressive and planned in-service training of teachers . |
| 29 | One of the great regrets , I am sure , of all hon. Members is that because the hon. Gentleman has chosen to leave us at the next election he will never have the opportunity to be a junior Minister . |
| 30 | Erm , and we 've had , I 'm afraid to give protective notice to six members of staff , it 's about er , discussions with the erm , Tech , are not successful , then they will have to leave us at the end of this programme year , which is the thirty-first of March . |