Example sentences of "leaving [pron] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | People might consider destroying their credit cards or just leaving them at home . ’ |
| 2 | Leaving them at their close door he walked off , frowning . |
| 3 | That statement on Monday about ongoing negotiations with Microsoft Corp , intended to arrest a long slide in the share price of Micro Focus Plc ( CI No 2,143 ) failed to prevent the shares shedding another 78 pence in Monday trading , leaving them at 2,110 pence , a far cry from the £30 they touched on February 15 : acceleration of the trend towards downsizing should if anything bring increased business to the company for its Cobol products over the next two or three years , and the signs are that as usual , the market has been overdoing things both ways — the shares were probably too high at £30 but are probably close to a bargain at £20 . |
| 4 | But further question-marks over Barclays Bank knocked 4p off its shares , leaving them at 420p . |
| 5 | Yet I might ask to have the salt passed , or discourse of the evil weather , and so my brother , to my great chagrin , noticed nothing , but set out blithely to go hunting with his new friend , leaving me at home to sit by the hearth , and to feel silent anguish at what might ensue . |
| 6 | After the death of Grandfather Palichuk , the custom arose of frequently leaving him at home . |
| 7 | While ordering the drawings in the Turner Bequest , Ruskin wrote to Elizabeth Browning in 1858 that he believed ‘ the old man 's soul had been gradually crushed within him , leaving him at the close of his life weak , sinful , desolate — nothing but his generosity and kindness of heart left ’ . |
| 8 | His occupation is solitary , inconspicuous , and largely free from direct supervision , leaving him at liberty to choose , within the constraints of his sampling programme , how he does his job . |
| 9 | He just left the remark hanging in the air and she stared after him , the eyes never leaving him at all . |
| 10 | It would have been just her luck if the damned thing had broken down en route , leaving her at the mercy of his unexpected return . |
| 11 | This slows down the towplane , leaving it at low speed below the glider and having its tail pulled up out of control . |
| 12 | In some circumstances , however , a teacher would be foolish to risk leaving it at ( 2 ) ; it may well be necessary to adopt ( 3 ) as an instruction to the class as the only way of engaging their interest . |
| 13 | So it was that in indicating my reasons for preferring the West Country for my motoring , instead of leaving it at mentioning several of the alluring details as conveyed by Mrs Symons 's volume , I made the error of declaring that a former housekeeper of Darlington Hall was resident in that region . |
| 14 | At 5.30 a.m. , the police constable appeared in uniform ready to resume duty , with a view to leaving it at 6 a.m . ’ |
| 15 | Section 123(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 provides that a company is deemed unable to pay its debts if a creditor ( by assignment or otherwise ) to whom the company is indebted in a sum exceeding £750 then due has served on the company , by leaving it at the company 's registered office , a written demand ( in the prescribed form ) requiring the company to pay the sum so due and the company has for three weeks thereafter neglected to pay the sum or to secure or compound for it to the reasonable satisfaction of the creditor . |
| 16 | Another reason to be wary of explaining linguistic differences as products of gender roles , and leaving it at that , is that such a proceeding just encourages stereotyping . |
| 17 | In general , people not actually involved in it saw the Council as the beginning of a new ecclesial era rather than a way of concluding some long-standing issues and leaving it at that , yet the Council 's documents remain for nearly all Catholics the most authoritative Church teaching of this century , beside which even papal encyclicals have comparatively slight standing . |
| 18 | Everything goes fine until , having chosen the number of blend steps ( or leaving it at the default number ) , I click on OK . |
| 19 | Instead of using the word ‘ Edwardian ’ ’ , would not the proper description be ‘ young thugs ’ ’ leaving it at that ? ’ |
| 20 | If no list has been registered , or the persons named have died , or ceased to reside in Great Britain , or refuse to accept service on the company 's behalf or for any reason can not be served , a document may be served on the company by leaving it at , or sending it by post to , any place of business established by the company in Great Britain . |
| 21 | But Keith really dreads leaving it at school . |
| 22 | A summons must be served on a limited company by leaving it at , or by sending it by post to , the registered office pursuant to s 725(1) of the Companies Act , 1985 . |
| 23 | Where a company is registered in Scotland a summons may be served on it by leaving it at , or by sending it by post to , its principal place of business in England or Wales addressed to the manager or head officer and by further posting a copy to the registered office ( s 725(2) and ( 3 ) Companies Act 1985 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ I think they were quite serious about leaving us at the time and thought they would get an objective opinion from Langford . |
| 25 | We were not feeling at all holy when we went in , having decided that all men were rotters , and fancy leaving us at Christmas for a couple of dames they had only just met ! |
| 26 | In the Concerto especially , both soloist and conductor take the work entirely seriously , and make a substantial case for it as one of the leading Concertos of its time — the days are leaving us at least when Gershwin 's ‘ serious ’ works ( those are n't my scare quotes ) were treated like the fortuitous good fortune of the upstart seven-year-old playing in big brother 's room , as if he composed them by accident . |
| 27 | Erm we 've got we had two hundred and pounds fifteen pence on deposit which has raised us one pound ten pence interest over the year , leaving us at two hundred and twenty one pounds twenty five pence . |
| 28 | , our long serving secretary will be leaving us at the end of May . |