Example sentences of "and he [verb] leave " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then tragedy : after a quick run Lamb 's right calf muscle seized up and he had to leave the field — and from 183 for 4 the score suddenly became 185 for 8 , then 201 all out . |
| 2 | Someone sent somebody out to kill two hens ; a local gentleman , knowing the lie of the land , sent his servant to the inn with rum and sugar and an apology for not knowing of their arrival in sufficient time to put them up , and he had to leave for Inverness at the crack of dawn ; Boswell still had some bread despite the amount he had doled out to the Macraes . |
| 3 | They had drunk pots of strong black coffee and he had to leave at 8 . |
| 4 | He 's had to travel across half the world and he had to leave his eight children behind , but I do n't know about his wife . |
| 5 | He had stuck to his story , that they 'd quarrelled at the dance and he had left early . |
| 6 | The flight engineer and I were one-time apprentices at Trenchard 's , Halton , and he had left the Service at the end of his 12 years and returned when the war started . |
| 7 | When I looked in your bedroom she had him in there with her and he 'd left his camera downstairs . |
| 8 | It had grown stale and ugly and he 'd left the Party the first time they sent the tanks in , but he did n't stop believing in the dream , the illusion , the myth , any more than he stopped believing in the Devil just because he did n't think there was a God . |
| 9 | No longer would he have to pin all his hopes on the random burglaries that he 'd carried out in that first couple of days , none of which had turned up anything better than a shotgun or a low-calibre target weapon ; those were useless for his purpose , and he 'd left them where he 'd found them . |
| 10 | He forgot to take his ten pence out of the slot where he 'd had it ready , and he 'd left a pile of tens and fives sitting on top of the directories . |
| 11 | But by that time , of course , it was well and truly over between us and he 'd left for Australia . ’ |
| 12 | Well apparently it had gone to Andrew , and , Andrew had cos Andrew is n't in the office all the time , and he 'd left it in the office , and I think they faxed it by th Andrew was gon na talk to somebody about it , but of course , by the time he 'd got there , it 'd already been done and this had happened so I 'm gon na ring erm Job Centre when I get home . |
| 13 | So I called back again and the number was engaged , so I called back again and got through and he 'd left for the day |
| 14 | And he 'd left more on his plate and |
| 15 | And he says leave that to the local station , and say , can you leave a message with him to phone me back please . |
| 16 | The venture failed and he died leaving a wife and child in destitution . |
| 17 | But went to the dentist and he said leave it pushed it right back and he said it will grow back . |
| 18 | and I forgot to leave a note for him today and he 's left me another twenty eight pound . |
| 19 | Now if the child can not interpret and relate the symbols to the animal , then he 's left wondering what the symbols mean , he ca n't relate the symbols to understanding that a cow is spelt verbally as C O W , and he 's left quite mystified , and he does n't know what we 're talking about . |
| 20 | They had finished their cups of tea and he stood to leave . |
| 21 | He was one of the last people to leave the old town of Wadi Halfa after its inhabitants had been transported south , and he has left a chilling account of the empty town 's last days . |
| 22 | Pelham was a deeply conscientious constituency MP , and he has left probably the finest record of such duties of any seventeenth-century politician . |