Example sentences of "[adv] leave [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ And what exactly do you think I might do to Kirsty if you were rash enough to leave her alone with me ? ’ |
| 3 | When he had learnt that Miss Alicia Lockwood , whom he considered one of the most charming and fascinating old dears he had ever met , had been mad enough to leave him half her beautiful and fantastic house , for one wild and quixotic moment Matthew had thought of refusing the legacy . |
| 4 | Memet , however , was somewhat out of their experience , and they were wise enough to leave him alone . |
| 5 | On 16 December Hoare returned to London , but was not well enough to leave his own house . |
| 6 | Seb had always had an instinct for whether or not something was likely to make money , but now he was required to record farm profit and expenditure for Christian it was not enough to leave it all to Carrie . |
| 7 | ‘ You 'd have done better to leave him alone . ’ |
| 8 | The effect of peer-group pressure and of change in moral fashion is not necessarily to leave us devoid of values . |
| 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 | But to deny any current involvement with Hugh would only leave her open to other , dangerous questions . |
| 11 | He was offering her a few days of physical pleasure which would only leave her thirsty for more . |
| 12 | And yet , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I also knew that it was this cold that drew me , this steady destruction of body and imagination , this utter alienness , as though only that could still excite me , as though anything less alien would only leave me indifferent . |
| 13 | Each such conditional asserts , with respect to all events or conditions of a certain class , that the occurrence of any or any set of them , or indeed all of them , would none the less leave it true that if the conditional 's antecedent is true , so too is its consequent . |
| 14 | Yes , well , I think we 'd better leave his ruder sayings off the air at the moment . |
| 15 | " She 's left me some money and all her furniture and things , " Sara went on , " but she 's only left me half the house . " |
| 16 | On the other hand , parents who show no sign of caring where their youngsters are , or what they are doing , not only leave them free to get into all kinds of trouble but make it harder for them to take responsibility by depriving them too soon of parental care . |
| 17 | Just remember that the invisible spiritual force that makes them work is evil and harmful , so leave them all well alone . |
| 18 | ‘ I always wear it like this for work , so leave it alone . ’ |
| 19 | But because it was the first , it naturally left itself open to criticism . |
| 20 | That only perhaps left him one alternative — an ultimate alternative which no-one , not even Carnelian , could reasonably expect him to invoke , let alone soon … |
| 21 | The baby 's mother said she only left her alone so the child could have a nap . |
| 22 | Jean , we 'll go down to where 's the fifty P shop or something and buy some of those do , er cornflakes ' plates or something , say they 're gon na fill those other ones up that the man give us a mere seven , eight ones , only leaves us four ordinary , you see I know for a fact that Sally say he was caught |
| 23 | That only leaves us two days to cope alone . |
| 24 | Such colour as there was in Tutilo 's weary face slowly drained away to leave him grey and mute . |
| 25 | I have at this point tried to bring in some preliminary notions of stress and prominence without giving a full explanation ; by this stage in the course it is important to be getting familiar with the difference between stressed and unstressed syllables , and the nature of ‘ schwa ’ , but the subject of stress is such a large one that I have felt it best to leave its main treatment until later . |
| 26 | ‘ I wish everyone would just leave me alone ! ’ |
| 27 | Ca n't you just leave me alone for God 's sake ? ’ |
| 28 | Why do n't you all just leave me alone . |
| 29 | Why ca n't you just leave me alone ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Why ca n't you just leave me alone ? ’ |