Example sentences of "be [pron] leave [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 2 | Maybe her arms , then her legs , her hair , her arms , her fingers , her thumbs till there would be nothing left of her for Gloria to find . |
| 3 | I 'll throw you to the fucking wolves — are you listening , you stupid fuck ? — and there 'll be nothing left of you but a pile of shit and a hank of hair . |
| 4 | And do n't use any more hot water , or there 'll be none left for me , ’ Beth told her sharply . |
| 5 | were they left in your er car ? |
| 6 | When questioned about this , one peasant retorted ‘ From where else are we to take thatch , there 's nothing left on which to feed the livestock , ’ An exception proved the rule . |
| 7 | Certainly I have had it said to me by grieving , often very elderly , people : ‘ There 's nothing left for me now , I just want to be with my husband . |
| 8 | There 's , there 's nothing left for anything other than to eat ! |
| 9 | ‘ There 's nothing left for you here . |
| 10 | There 's nothing left for you here , nothing but misery . |
| 11 | ‘ Ludens , dear Alfred , old friend , do n't get fixated on that man , there 's nothing left in him , he 's an empty shell . |
| 12 | There 's nothing left in my room now . |
| 13 | Oh there 's nothing left in it . |
| 14 | Sometimes it gets to me , I give so much time and energy to everyone else , that there is nothing left for me . |
| 15 | There is nothing left for it but to lie its head off until Polling Day is past … |
| 16 | ‘ Now the children are getting bigger I find they eat all the dinner and there is none left for me . |
| 17 | Never to three-putt again ( should last until the 1st green in Dubai — if there 's anything left of it ) . |
| 18 | She wrenched the lid off the biscuit tin and tipped her mother 's letters into the range , stuffing them well down with the poker until there was nothing left of them but black ash . |
| 19 | Of course there was nothing left of my socks . |
| 20 | After a few seconds , there was nothing left of it except a black piece of wood two metres high . |
| 21 | She subsided wordlessly , wondering ironically how many times it was possible for the same heart to break before there was nothing left of it . |
| 22 | There was nothing left of it but these things , as with cries of animal passion they allowed the storm that had brewed around them all summer to reach its thunderous climax . |
| 23 | Now there was nothing left to him but the conflicting passions of his terror and his furious pride , knotted together in inextricable warfare in his bowels . |
| 24 | I 'm we knew very well she was but there was nothing left for her you know . |
| 25 | There was nothing left for me now — nothing . |
| 26 | Whitlock smiled politely , his mind still reeling from the way she had dissected his cover story , piece by piece , until there was nothing left for him to hide behind . |
| 27 | He seemed to Trent to have withdrawn so far into himself that there was nothing left in his eyes . |
| 28 | When the questions began , as they surely must , there was nothing left within her to protect her from his probing . |
| 29 | And what , then , was there left for him to do ? |
| 30 | After the prisoners had left , some boys , feeling rather brave , entered the building to see if there was anything left in it . |