Example sentences of "leave [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , in my turn , was surprised to find how much I was looking forward to a day on my own , and mildly surprised at my mother 's willingness to leave me to it . |
| 2 | It just is n't like you to leave me to it like that , especially with a new member of staff , and a medical officer at that . ’ |
| 3 | We have to leave them to be independent and responsible people in their own right . |
| 4 | In such cases it is best to leave them to their own devices . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'll have to leave them to it . |
| 6 | Best to leave them to it . |
| 7 | He decided to leave them to it , and as he came out on the landing he almost collided with Beryl who must have been eavesdropping . |
| 8 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 9 | These are matters which must be attended to as a matter of priority before business commences : it makes no sense at all to leave them to be dealt with in accordance with the Partnership Act . |
| 10 | ‘ Next time you are in distress I will know to leave you to it . |
| 11 | I 'm afraid I 'll have to leave you to your own devices for a while . ’ |
| 12 | Now then I 'm going to leave you to it . |
| 13 | DEC 5 : Booked again following long-running feud with Southampton defender Ken Monkou , who says : ‘ He 's got a temperament , but you just have to leave him to it and do n't argue with him because that 's what he wants . ’ |
| 14 | Electing to leave him to his own devices , I wave through the windscreen but he is still fumbling through his camera bag and does n't say goodbye . |
| 15 | Captain Dawson 's parents , themselves stricken , had no idea how to deal with their weeping daughter-in-law , and were thankful to leave her to Dorothy . |
| 16 | Once or twice , when Harry and Fleury had had to leave her to her own devices for a few moments in order to fight off the sepoys , she had become very upset and had made little attempt to conceal the fact . |
| 17 | Penry was tactful enough to leave her to her own devices once he 'd directed her to a chemist . |
| 18 | To leave it to the transforming imagination . |
| 19 | Admire the Liberty shawl for Aunt Elspeth , and wonder if she might be delighted enough to leave it to me in her will . |
| 20 | They ought to leave it to the markets . |
| 21 | If you want to leave it to the last minute you can also bring your items to the Community Centre on the morning . |
| 22 | They are content to leave it to the building society , or they rely on their own judgement . |
| 23 | Was n't it wonderful of old Cornelius to leave it to me like that ? |
| 24 | She wanted to say , ‘ I 'd be more than happy to leave it to the experts . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But I already have an assault charge hanging over me , so in the end I had to leave it to the stewards . |
| 26 | High technology can also be used to provide the operator with flexibility in the allocation of functions , he can make his own decision about when to control manually and when to leave it to the mechanisms . |
| 27 | To leave it to a free vote of the House might be taken as an indication that the Government had not made up its mind and would be an invitation to the House of Lords to delete from the Bill the clause abolishing the death penalty . |
| 28 | The Home Secretary had previously informed the Cabinet that he would have included a provision to this effect in the Bill if he had not thought it preferable to leave it to the Lords to take the initiative . |
| 29 | When , however , a statute provides that compliance with its provisions shall be enforceable by civil proceedings by the Crown for an injunction , and particularly if this is the only method of enforcement for which it provides , the Crown does owe a duty to the public at large to initiate proceedings to secure that the law is not flouted , and not simply to leave it to the chance that some relator may be willing to incur the expense and trouble of doing so . |
| 30 | ‘ the concentration on actual or ostensible authority being ‘ given to the husband to act on behalf of the bank ’ may not be a reliable way of applying the test now well established by authority , albeit … that the real question is whether the bank were content to leave it to the husband to obtain the wife 's signature upon the charge . |