I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bus goes/leaves
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The last bus went ten minutes ago.
a farewell/leaving party
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You didn’t come to Ken’s farewell party, did you?
a stroke leaves sb paralysed (= someone can no longer move as the result of a stroke )
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Two years later she had a stroke which left her paralysed.
a train leaves/departs
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Trains depart from Rugby at half-hourly intervals until 4.00 pm.
an employee leaves
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When a senior employee leaves the company, we hold an exit interview.
are better left unsaid (= it is better not to mention them )
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Some things are better left unsaid .
be left/remain undisturbed
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The land is to be left undisturbed as a nature reserve.
beg leave to do sth formal (= ask permission to do something )
Chinese leaves
compassionate leave
create/leave a vacancy
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the vacancy which was created by White’s resignation
get up from/leave the table
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She stood up from her chair and left the table.
give sb exceptional leave to do sth formal (= give someone special permission to do something )
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Two of the asylum seekers were given exceptional leave to stay in Britain.
go off/walk off/leave etc in a huff
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She stormed out in a huff.
keep left/right (= stay to the left or right of a path or road as you move )
keep/leave your options open (= to not limit what you can choose to do later )
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Studying a broad range of subjects helps to keep your options open.
keep/leave your options open
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Officers investigating her death are keeping their options open.
leave a clue
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The bombers may have left behind vital clues.
leave a committee
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After three years, she decided to leave the committee.
leave a firm
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She left the firm in 2007.
leave a group
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Rebecca left the group following a disagreement.
leave a margin
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The teacher told us to leave a margin wide enough for him to write corrections.
leave a mark (= make a mark )
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The glass had left a mark on the table.
leave a message (= write or say something that the person will receive later )
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Please leave a message after the beep.
leave a position
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He left his position as Chief Conductor of the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra.
leave a post
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The previous ambassador left his post in June.
leave a profession
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Why do you want to leave the profession?
leave a scar
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The injury is deep and will leave quite a scar.
leave a scar (= leave someone with feelings of fear or sadness )
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Psychologically, the attack has left a deep scar.
leave a space
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Leave a space for the title at the top.
leave a tip
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Aren’t you going to leave a tip?
leave a topic (= stop talking about it )
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Before we leave this topic, may I add one more thing.
leave a vacuum
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The disappearance of religious beliefs has left a vacuum in many people's lives.
leave a will (= have made a will when you die )
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Who will inherit my property if I don't leave a will?
leave an impression on sb (= make someone remember a person, place, or thing )
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Janet certainly left an impression on him.
leave early
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I had to leave early, so I missed the end of the party.
leave education British English (= stop going to school, college etc )
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She left full-time education at the age of 16.
leave home (= stop living with your parents at home )
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Lisa had left home at age 16.
leave no/little doubt (that) (= make people sure or almost sure about something )
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The evidence left no doubt that he was the murderer.
leave port
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Two fishing boats were preparing to leave port.
leave room
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Step back, leave room for people to get past.
leave sb a fortune (= arrange for someone to receive a lot of money after you die )
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He left his wife a modest fortune.
leave sb dead (= result in someone dying – used especially in news reports )
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The shooting left at least 28 people dead.
leave sb deaf (= cause someone to become deaf )
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A blow on the head left him permanently deaf.
leave sb for dead (= leave someone to die )
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The men beat him and ran away, leaving him for dead.
leave sb in peace
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Answer my question, and then I'Il leave you in peace.
leave sb scarred
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The surgery left her face and neck scarred.
leave sb with no alternative (but to do sth)
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I was left with no alternative but to seek legal advice.
leave sb with no choice
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I was left with no choice but to resign.
leave school
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He left school when he was 16.
leave sth clean
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Please leave the apartment clean when you go.
leave the army
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Why did you leave the army?
leave the country
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The journalists were given 24 hours to leave the country.
leave the gate open
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Someone left the gate open, and the dog got out.
leave the heating on (= continue to use the heating )
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I don't like to leave the heating on at night.
leave the motorway
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A few miles further on they left the motorway.
leave the nest
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Barn owls leave the nest at two to three months.
leave the stage
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Everyone except the main character gradually leaves the stage.
leave university
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Students often find work soon after leaving university.
leave well (enough) alone (= not change something that is satisfactory )
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In economic matters, they should leave well alone.
leave/abandon sb to their fate (= leave someone in a bad situation )
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The abandoned sailors were left to their fate on the island.
leave...alone
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You shouldn’t leave a child alone in the house.
Leave...blank
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Leave the last page blank .
leave/come out of hospital British English , leave/come out of the hospital American English
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Her mother never left the hospital.
leave...fingerprints
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He was careful not to leave any fingerprints .
leave...forwarding address
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Did she leave a forwarding address ?
leave...lying around
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If you leave your shoes lying around like that, you’ll trip over them.
leave/quit your job
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Oh, Rick, you didn’t quit your job, did you?
leave...residue
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The flies leave a sticky residue on crops.
leaves a nasty taste in...mouth (= makes you feel upset or angry afterwards )
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When you feel you’ve been cheated, it always leaves a nasty taste in the mouth .
Leaving aside
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Leaving aside the heat, we really enjoyed our holiday.
left a legacy
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The invasion left a legacy of hatred and fear.
left a trail
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The bus left a trail of black smoke behind it.
left field
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People don’t know how to react when a question like that comes at them out of left field.
left foot
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My left foot ached a bit.
left jab
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a boxer with a good left jab
left luggage office
left on...own
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He didn’t want to be left on his own .
left stranded
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Air travellers were left stranded because of icy conditions.
left to rot
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The trees were cut and left to rot .
left to the discretion
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Promotions are left to the discretion of the supervisor.
left unattended
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Children should not be left unattended in the playground.
left unchecked
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This habit, if left unchecked , may cause serious problems later.
left undone
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The washing-up had been left undone .
left...destitute
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The floods left many people destitute .
left...injured
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The car accident left him seriously injured .
left...open to
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He has left himself open to accusations of dishonesty.
left...speechless
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His comments left me speechless with rage.
make a left/right turn
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Make a left turn at the station.
make/render/leave sb sterile
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Radiotherapy has left her permanently sterile.
maternity leave
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Karen will be on maternity leave next month.
parental leave
paternity leave
pick up where...left off
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We’ll meet again in the morning and we can pick up where we left off .
sb's left/right ear
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She is deaf in her right ear.
sb’s left/right arm
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She broke her left arm in a riding accident.
sb’s right/left hand
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She held the book in her right hand.
sharp left/right
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Take a sharp left after the church.
sick leave (= time that you can stay away from work because you are ill )
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He returned to duty after two months’ sick leave.
sick leave
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He has been on sick leave for more than three months.
stage left
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He entered stage left.
sth leaves a stain
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She wiped the soup off her blouse, but it left a stain.
stray from/leave the fold
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a former advocate of free market economics who had strayed from the fold
swing to the Right/Left (= in politics )
tea leaves
the left/left-hand corner
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We followed the path to the left-hand corner of the field.
the left/right side
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He received a deep cut on the right side of his face.
the...turning on the left
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Take the first turning on the left .
to the left/right of sth
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To the left of the sofa is a table.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
behind
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When she dies-and it will be soon-she will leave behind three orphaned children.
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Because of my job, I knew the people to call and was able to avoid being left behind .
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He was left behind by the rest of the wagon train because his vehicle was so cumbersome.
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In the rush not to be left behind , scruples about starvation and labour camps are forgotten.
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Listened too for the unnamed, unmentioned people left behind .
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His wife, Pamela, whom fortunately he had left behind , was an acid-tongued woman who managed a fleet of launderettes.
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Angry populists like Pat Buchanan will exploit the disaffection of those left behind .
home
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Police were not interested in her marriage certificate, her permit to leave home or her temporary residence card for Zhuhai.
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The resourceful child left home to help his family, and had many adventures before making his way back to his parents.
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Jeanne Vitou was really ready to leave home .
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Born to godly parents, Mel left home at fifteen and joined the Navy.
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And all this meant that I couldn't wait to leave home .
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In her story, Bunting writes about Lin, who is afraid to leave home to go to camp.
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Katherine didn't know what to expect as she prepared to leave home and make her way to the Wall.
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The day after his twenty-first birthday, Lawrence left home to be a musician.
■ NOUN
country
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Taylor had consistently made it known that he would not agree to a ceasefire until Doe had resigned and left the country .
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Is there no sense of outrage left in this country ?
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In Cowley's opinion, the arrogant little man should be invited to leave the country in the very near future indeed.
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And though Karadzic and Mladic remain free, the indictments weaken their authority and ensure they do not leave the country .
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While governments dither, funds leave those countries with weak currencies and go to those countries with strong currencies.
gap
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It is important to leave a gap between the water surface and the drip tray to allow this.
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Of course the importance of a high quality of case recording is clearly recognised but a rushed volunteer might leave gaps in case recording.
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Pipe the bands down one row at a time, leaving even gaps in between.
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But this evidence still leaves a large gap to be filled between the early fifth century and St Cuthbert's visit.
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Foreign and company ownership often leaves a huge gap between boss and keeper and the traditions.
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They had left a gap in the life of the city.
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Don't pack them together too densely, and leave gaps around them.
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At present we have to rely on several sources of information, which sometimes overlap, and which definitely leave great gaps .
impression
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Public finance economists often stop at this point, leaving the impression that all taxation does is to introduce inefficiency.
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Such seriousness, intensity, and power in a young man set him apart and left an impression on others.
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I am left with the impression that the author has updated his work reluctantly and some of his text is misleading.
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You want to leave the best impression , since you will probably never see this person again.
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Writing as he did, Marx left the inevitable impression that he and history were one and the same.
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Bush leaves a first impression that, while his government is not deliberately isolationist, it is comfortable with being isolated.
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Together these two factors have tended to cloak her personality, leaving an impression of excessive timidity.
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The movie leaves the impression that Prefontaine is peeved by the delay.
job
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Mrs Wharton left her job and claimed constructive dismissal; the others were dismissed.
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They had already paid him some $ 22 million to leave his last job .
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They've been left with no job , no family support and with long-term illnesses.
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If so, a balanced budget amendment could leave the budget-cutting job to the courts.
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When she left her job she faced a period of uncertainty while she tried to prove that her idea had potential.
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After twenty years, he reached retirement age, left his job , and began spending every moment on the case.
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She and her best friend cried when they heard I was leaving for another job .
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But just wait until they leave their jobs !
mark
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The drip, drip of winter skis propped up outside rooms have left their their sallow mark .
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A new way of helping students leave a mark .
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If he was ever at Oxford University, he left no mark .
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Sand in the direction of the grain, being careful to not leave marks .
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When every simple privilege has to be earned the hard way, the struggle leaves its mark .
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We might guess at a generalized sense that would draw people to leave these kind of marks .
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If only there was a way for each viewer to leave his mark .
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The time had not yet come when Man could leave his mark upon the Solar System.
message
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They would still be driving home, so she could leave a message on the answering machine.
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She sent me memos, left Eugenia phone messages .
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I left a message at the yard.
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Like leaving a message for royalty.
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A lot of them leave and collect messages there, so there was nothing to blame the owner for.
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Tearooms had regulars who left messages on bulletin boards.
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Mr Mansur left no suicide message , and there were no relatives, videotapes or notes.
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He left messages on two machines.
trail
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It slid down the wall, leaving behind it a trail of dark brown juice, like bile.
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These and certain sea anemones often leave a mucous trail that, upon dissolving in water, gives off a characteristic odor.
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The old nun gets out of the bath, leaving a trail of water on the floor as she unlocks the door.
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It is difficult to make progress in your career if you leave a trail of damaged relationships behind you.
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Laser beams swept like searchlights, leaving smoking trails across the rock, as blasters were turned towards the approaching Dalek Killer.
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I wished I had left a pebble trail .
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From now on, as he goes about his nocturnal perambulations, he leaves a smelly trail behind him.
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But in 1833 there were many brilliant fireballs that left trails of dust and smoke.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(from) left to right
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Below, left to right: Davey Philips of Clan Skates.
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Number them in sequence 1, 2, 3 etc, left to right on each line.
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Other winners are, left to right,.
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Run your finger along under the words as you read, so that the child learns that reading goes from left to right.
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The basic mechanism is to build an edge from left to right.
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The group photograph shows, from left to right:.
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Years ago, teams could pick up the free-agent menu and read it left to right.
(leave sb/sth) high and dry
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Between breakups the continents stood high and dry.
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But at Hereford, the oil level had been allowed to drop, leaving the probe high and dry.
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It is profitable, but it leaves the comic muse high and dry.
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Otherwise, a drop in the water level might leave boaters high and dry and give property owners mudflat views.
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Some crews actually rope cell phones down to high and dry rock climbers to get information.
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The pirates left us high and dry!
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Unfortunately, instead of being integrated in a general hospital as planned, the wing will now be left high and dry.
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When Matt married Inez I was left high and dry.
(like) rats leaving the sinking ship
a hard left/right
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I executed a hard right turn, but could not see any other aircraft in my vicinity.
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More often, though, they miss, hang a hard left, and return to the dugout.
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Sharp took an eight count after taking a hard left hook.
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Still not enough to justify this desire to reach across the table and deliver a hard right to the gubernatorial chin.
be at sb's side/stay by sb's side/not leave sb's side
be left unsaid
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But it might not, particularly if you feel that too much was left unsaid .
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Something must always be left unsaid .
extreme west/end/left etc
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But the extreme ends of the continent seem afflicted with retro-chic shallowness when it comes to cocktails.
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Developing your film To get your film developed you need to go to the extreme left of the upper level.
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Evictions are the extreme end of the bailiff's duties.
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Moving down to the extreme left he was discovered by the enemy, and a full battery opened upon him.
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Passage is possible through the branches on the extreme left.
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Roots and leafless bushes stuck up wildly at the extreme end of the strip.
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So why was she tempted to invent such an extreme ending?
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The extreme left doors date from 1948, the work of Arrigo Menerbi, showing the tribulations of early Christians.
have two left feet
have two left feet
keep/leave your options open
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At the end of the season, I will keep my options open.
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Either way, you can keep your options open.
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Flexibility is key, keeping your options open.
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Many young people want to keep their options open.
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Some companies are keeping their options open on retaining or dumping anachronistic names.
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We must expect to be surprised in the future, and we must keep our options open.
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You need to keep your options open in order to change courses at a moment's notice.
leave feet first
leave little/nothing to the imagination
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His creation left nothing to the imagination .
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Plastics - that here leave little to the imagination - were widely used in fashion.
leave no stone unturned
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If a solution can be found, Mr Danby, I shall leave no stone unturned until I have found it.
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Union leaders have promised to leave no stone unturned in their search for a way to keep the factory open.
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Henry was a boy who left no stone unturned, and he got a torch and shone the beam inside.
leave sb alone
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Go away and leave me alone .
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Just leave me alone and stop asking me questions.
leave sb cold
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All this talk about counselling and therapy left me cold .
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Ballet just leaves me cold .
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Opera leaves me cold .
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Why are people so crazy about opera? It leaves me completely cold .
leave sb in the lurch
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The pager company shut down Tuesday, leaving 2000 customers in the lurch .
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UPS workers went on strike today, leaving thousands of customers in the lurch .
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But I won't leave you in the lurch even if that time comes.
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How can we leave them in the lurch , in their teens, like that?
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I wouldn't leave her in the lurch .
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She had never got over that chap who left her in the lurch all those years ago.
leave sb out in the cold
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These trade negotiations have left farmers out in the cold .
leave sb to sb's (tender) mercies
leave sth alone
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Leave it alone or you'll break it.
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Our neighbor would have cut the tree down if I hadn't told him to leave it alone .
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That's a very delicate piece of equipment - please leave it alone .
leave sth to sb's imagination
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The production successfully leaves much of the detail to the audience's imagination .
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His creation left nothing to the imagination .
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In this respect Wordsworth does not leave enough to the imagination .
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Plastics - that here leave little to the imagination - were widely used in fashion.
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That way they leave things to your imagination .
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The Crims leave it to your imagination , although they don't on the incongruous rockabilly thumper Dickholder.
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There's nothing wrong with being glamorous and sexy, but leaving something to the imagination is advisable.
leave the field clear for sb
leave/fly the nest
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After about three weeks, the young cuckoo is ready to leave the nest .
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Barn owls leave the nest at two to three months and are sexually mature at one year.
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If, however, the host appears reluctant to leave the nest , the cuckoo has a more direct approach.
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It is so rarely when all the fledglings have left the nest , to have them all together again.
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Once deposited, she leaves the nest and he immediately fertilizes the eggs.
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She usually builds on the shores of an estuary and there she sits devotedly, seldom leaving the nest .
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Unfortunately for her, the host bird showed no inclination to leave the nest .
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When the host leaves the nest , the cuckoo makes its approach in a long, silent hawk-like glide.
leave/make its mark on sb/sth
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Being on a Kindertransport was, in itself, a traumatic experience that left its mark on otherwise balanced and healthy children.
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Growing up in the shadow of Olivier had already left its mark on Richard professionally.
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History is what you live and it leaves its mark on how you die.
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I was only a boy of ten at the time, but it left its mark on me too.
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It's bound to leave its mark on a man.
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So Hackney has left its mark on the history of madness.
leave/take the phone off the hook
left-footed/right-footed
make/leave your mark
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Accompanied by his wife and stepson, he headed south, leaving his mark as a burglar.
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But the company left its mark .
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His great predecessors made their marks with bold deeds.
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Inevitably, perhaps, Jasper Johns's renowned Target is here and undeniably yet again succeeds in making its mark .
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It was here in Iowa in 1988 that the new religious right first made its mark in national politics.
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Its competition made their marks by being faster and easier to use.
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Stop Hinkley Expansion had made its mark .
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The grey streets of London and a Western society on which the permissive 1960s had made its mark were small compensation.
out of/from left field
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Some of the griping comes out of left field.
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When something like this comes out of left field at you....
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While he used more complex sentences consistently, some of them seemed to come out of left field.
put/leave sth on the back burner
put/leave/set sth to one side
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Graham has no plans to fly this aircraft at present and will put it to one side as soon as assembly and testing is complete.
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She put it to one side , and opened the folder of photographs.
right, left, and centre
right/left justified
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Numeric quantities can be printed left justified by preceding them with a semi-colon.
sharp left/right
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For this you turn sharp right off the road from Saint-Jean to Saint-Palais, about half-way between those two towns.
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Pass over a broken wall and turn sharp right.
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She walked almost to the edge of the cliff, where the road made a sharp left.
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There was a sharp left turn at the bottom into Ruskin Road.
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Turn sharp left 80yds before a conifer windbreak.
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Turn sharp right downhill and uphill to go through another gate.
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Turn left along this road for three quarters of a mile until the road turns sharp right to become Marsh Road.
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We made a rocky, wet entry, and then took a sharp right turn along a wall.
take a left
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A few miles further on, I took a left on to a B road which curved up even higher.
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He damn nearly took a left , made a huge detour to the east.
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Number 18, straight out here eleven miles; take a left and then straight up that motherfucking mountain.
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On the back seat the two sherry glasses clinked as Rufus took a left turn rather too sharply.
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The fast disappearing figures of the two girls waved back then disappeared as the bike took a left hand bend.
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We took a left on Houston, a left on Sullivan, then we backtracked to MacDougal.
the far left/right
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For now, at least, the cause of tax simplification seems to have been captured by the far right.
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He unplugged the cables, shoved all the levers over to the far left, and rewound the tape.
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However, the fact that the far right won more votes than the far-left should make everyone pause and reflect.
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That Begin had come from the far right, but that in order to govern he has to occupy the center.
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The activities of the far right have been a cause for concern over here for a while now.
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The good tee shot was played to the far right of the fairway to set up a second shot to the left.
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The libertarian view A third view of the revolution has been developed by writers on the far Left of the political spectrum.
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The top of the hierarchy is at the far left.
the hard left/right
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But what happens when you want so much to be right, you end up helping the hard right?
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Labour moderates win over four of the hard left by agreeing that the cuts shall involve as few compulsory redundancies as possible.
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Mr Steve King, leader of the hard left, denounces his fellow-councillors as dunderheads, nincompoops and dolts.
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The showing for the hard left was disappointing.
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They were stars of the hard left, but we have heard little about them during the election struggle.
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Too little, say the Tories, too much says the hard left.
the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing
the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
the left/sb's left
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A: It is going to still be difficult to heal the wounds that the war left .
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As the train left , looking at her watch, she tried not to think that Edmund was by now already surely married.
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He placed the food on the kang and left dispiritedly.
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It broke up the crew and left the cameraman shaking underneath his camera.
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The mechanism requires some form of communication between the right and left eyes.
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The murder is perfectly executed, except that the baseball bat left at the scene of the crime is sticky with fingerprints.
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They varied only according to whether the approach was from the right or left .
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While pressure was maintained in front, other units swung to the right and left .
the left/the Left
top left/right/centre
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A slightly larger percentage of pairs of brooches were more abraded on the top right than the top left corner.
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Here we want the Series in a column so check Columns in the box at the top left.
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The completed board is shown top left.
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The dark area in the top right is deep, clear water.
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The file was a standard office file with a Prior, Keen, Baldwin label stuck in the top right corner.
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The majority of single brooches examined were found to be more abraded on the top left corner than the top right.
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The plane again runs roughly from top left to bottom right.
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Using a tapestry needle threaded with the embroidery colour, begin at the top right of the motif.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Where's Marcia?" "Oh, she left last week to have her baby."
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After leaving the Navy, he started a new career in journalism.
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After 30 years, Paige is leaving the company.
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Always leave enough fuel for the next person to build a fire with.
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Brian's parents talked him out of leaving college.
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Chamberlain was a Cabinet Minister until he left the Liberal party in 1886.
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Church officials are concerned about all the people who have left.
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Coaches leave from Victoria every hour.
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Collins leaves a wife and three children.
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Hand back the identity card when you leave the building.
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He left £1000 to each of the nurses who had looked after him.
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He left his hometown when he was 16, and he hasn't been back there since.
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Her plane leaves Hong Kong at 10.00.
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I'm leaving for Paris on Tuesday.
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I'm sure I left my bag somewhere around here.
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I'm surprised that Kent left her.
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I left home when I was 14.
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I can't find my coat - I must have left it at work.
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I hated school and couldn't wait to leave .
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I have to leave early tomorrow morning to fly to Detroit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Cut the fillets into serving pieces but leave steaks whole.
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He offered me four grand, all he had left from the game, and I took it.
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I was glad we had not gone away as my uncles had and left Omite alone.
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It leaves less to the discretion of the court and has decided on a maximum sentence of just five years.
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It had not left much time to arrange for a reception committee.
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It seemed unbelievable that they would stand aside and let them leave like this.
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Small wonder, then, that heart disease kills a quarter of us and leaves another third chronically disabled.
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What legacy are we leaving for future generations?
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
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These holidays as with annual leave may be taken with the approval of the Board.
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The distribution of annual leave to nurses is of great importance to the individual nurse and to the employer.
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Some hospitals utilise temporary ward closures as an opportunity to give staff annual leave .
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And the gap will become wider if no extra staff are employed to cover junior doctors' annual leave .
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The manager should discuss the proposals for the coming year's maintenance programme before the allocation of annual leave to nurses.
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Are managers of nurses given information about annual leave arrangements of other staff?
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Failure to optimise the level of support to the caring team will undermine efforts to distribute annual leave evenly among nurses.
compassionate
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Joe and Eileen were given short compassionate leave and Stephen came home for the funeral.
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Trouble erupted on Friday night after a row about a prisoner's appeal for compassionate leave .
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And with a baby on the way there would surely be some compassionate leave for him soon.
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He will be able to return on compassionate leave - particularly if it helps to focus his mind on the Test series.
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Your request for compassionate leave is, of course, granted.
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After her return from compassionate leave following the death of her father, they had been prepared to rally round.
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Edward was in the Western Desert, and because of the children he was given compassionate leave .
maternity
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The present 18 weeks maternity leave will be extended to 26 weeks.
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And paid maternity leave will go up from 18 to 24 weeks.
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Rarely have they bargained aggressively for benefits such as maternity leave or more help with child care.
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As the days remaining in her six-week maternity leave fizzled away, she wavered back and forth.
parental
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The roles of both parents should be underwritten by proper parental leave and by universal and trusted childcare.
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In February 1990, Sacramento became the first county in California to offer paid parental leave to its employees.
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It prefers six weeks of state-funded parental leave .
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But is there no career penalty for men who choose parental leave ?
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They have blocked directives on parental leave , on part-time workers and on maternity rights.
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How far can programs such as legally mandated parental leaves go toward meeting the individual needs of employers and families?
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It helped validate that parental leave was for both men and women and helped change the ratio of use.
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We may have contributed to the improvement in the 1980s by changing the name from maternity / paternity leave to parental leave.
sick
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It also accounted for 11.6% of sick leave .
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When they go on sick leave , their aggregate take-home pay is actually higher than when they are on the job.
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The woman suffered bruising to the head and body in the impact and went on sick leave from work.
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Then they learn that Lincoln employees receive no company-paid dental insurance benefits, no paid holidays, and have no sick leave .
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Accumulating days for sick leave proved to be a trap.
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You will be paid while you are on sick leave but obviously there are limits to this.
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I could take the afternoon off from work as sick leave .
special
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There is no special leave for newlyweds and no childcare provision.
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Some firms grant special leave at the time of the move.
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This being refused he applied to the Board, and on 5 February 1992 the Board granted special leave .
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I can confirm that Friday 5 February 1993 will be treated as special leave .
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In addition, employees may be granted up to a maximum of three days' special leave .
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Line managers have discretion to give people time off as special leave .
unpaid
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These men and women had spent two weeks preparing for the big occasion, many taking unpaid leave from work.
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The Democratic candidate for governor apparently objects to unpaid leave in all cases.
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For most of the farmers time off would have to be taken, either as holiday or unpaid leave .
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He scrupulously took unpaid leave for every day he campaigned.
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She may seek to use some of her annual leave entitlement as an alternative to unpaid leave.
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In fact, he conducted bank business many times when he was on unpaid leave .
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Women with less than one year's service are eligible to apply for unpaid maternity leave .
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It's doubtful she ever has taken a single day of unpaid leave during any of her innumerable campaigns for public office.
■ NOUN
paternity
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Tom went off on paternity leave and his secretary organised a whip-round to send a card and a gift.
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But I was not surprised that Sam zoomed in on paternity leave right away.
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Fathers are allowed two days off as paid paternity leave .
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Father friendliness can not be reduced to a company having a paternity leave policy, paid or unpaid, on the books.
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The audience gave a warm welcome to the father of four, fresh from paternity leave .
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Still, only 11 percent availed themselves of the official paternity leave policy.
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I hereby confirm that your request for 5 days paternity leave has been granted.
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So why does paternity leave continue to serve as the barometer of social change for the media?
■ VERB
appeal
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From that decision, leave was given to appeal to the House of Lords.
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All must seek leave to appeal from the special adjudicator who is to be appointed by the Lord Chancellor.
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In 1988 there were 144 petitions for leave to appeal in civil cases.
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This should be distinguished from the Appeal Committee which considers applications for leave to appeal.
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Most importantly, of course, the single judge may decide applications for leave to appeal .
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A petition for leave to appeal is now pending before the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords. 2.
give
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The plaintiff might have given or refused leave .
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Joe and Eileen were given short compassionate leave and Stephen came home for the funeral.
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Some hospitals utilise temporary ward closures as an opportunity to give staff annual leave .
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Afternoons were given over to village leave , organised games, set walks, leisure periods and detention.
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At the commencement of the hearing, your Lordships gave leave to the Attorney-General to intervene in the proceedings.
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Edward was in the Western Desert, and because of the children he was given compassionate leave .
grant
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He has since been granted temporary leave to stay in Britain.
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I took him aside and said, as your boss I have to grant you this leave .
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Some firms grant special leave at the time of the move.
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As the Gay situation unraveled, reserve guard Charlie Taylor was granted an indefinite leave of absence for personal reasons.
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Surrogate twins of a homosexual couple have been granted indefinite leave to stay in Britain.
obtain
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Prior to Puhlhofer, failure to obtain leave to proceed by judicial review occurred in less than 10 percent of the applications.
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Anyone else must obtain leave to make an application.
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In addition, obtaining study leave is either difficult or impossible.
pay
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The restriction had excluded millions of freelance and contract employees from any paid leave .
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In February 1990, Sacramento became the first county in California to offer paid parental leave to its employees.
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And paid maternity leave will go up from 18 to 24 weeks.
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We have flextime and job sharing, paid and unpaid personal leave .
seek
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If the original statement requires correction it is presumably necessary to seek leave to amend although the rules are silent on this.
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All must seek leave to appeal from the special adjudicator who is to be appointed by the Lord Chancellor.
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A party must seek leave before disclosing any documents to an expert witness.
take
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They were taking their leave when they saw Rose walking down the field path.
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He scrupulously took unpaid leave for every day he campaigned.
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They took their leave unceremoniously, Cranston waving Colebrooke aside.
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She whispered her promise, and Odysseus took his leave .
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Dissuaded from resigning, Macmillan took extended leave rather than restrain his public utterances.
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As I was taking my leave , I asked whether he would like to attend our formal opening and reception.
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Mr Caserta took a leave of absence from the company in March 1994.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(from) left to right
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Below, left to right: Davey Philips of Clan Skates.
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Number them in sequence 1, 2, 3 etc, left to right on each line.
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Other winners are, left to right,.
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Run your finger along under the words as you read, so that the child learns that reading goes from left to right.
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The basic mechanism is to build an edge from left to right.
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The group photograph shows, from left to right:.
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Years ago, teams could pick up the free-agent menu and read it left to right.
(leave sb/sth) high and dry
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Between breakups the continents stood high and dry.
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But at Hereford, the oil level had been allowed to drop, leaving the probe high and dry.
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It is profitable, but it leaves the comic muse high and dry.
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Otherwise, a drop in the water level might leave boaters high and dry and give property owners mudflat views.
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Some crews actually rope cell phones down to high and dry rock climbers to get information.
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The pirates left us high and dry!
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Unfortunately, instead of being integrated in a general hospital as planned, the wing will now be left high and dry.
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When Matt married Inez I was left high and dry.
a hard left/right
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I executed a hard right turn, but could not see any other aircraft in my vicinity.
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More often, though, they miss, hang a hard left, and return to the dugout.
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Sharp took an eight count after taking a hard left hook.
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Still not enough to justify this desire to reach across the table and deliver a hard right to the gubernatorial chin.
be at sb's side/stay by sb's side/not leave sb's side
be left holding the baby
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The difference is that you were left holding the baby.
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Then he does something stupid with a television researcher and is left holding the baby.
be left unsaid
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But it might not, particularly if you feel that too much was left unsaid .
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Something must always be left unsaid .
bear right/left
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Bear left where the road divides.
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The road bears to the right.
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After descending, bear left on to the grassy bridleway which joins the road.
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From St Martin's church bear left past Cwmyoy Farm.
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Go through gate then bear right across field heading for stile that can be seen on skyline.
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His eyes bore right through me.
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I came to the place in the road where you bear left to go down to the valley of Chimayo.
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On reaching the saddle bear right along the ridge to the summit.
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Stay on the main track, bearing left at the fork two miles in.
extreme west/end/left etc
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But the extreme ends of the continent seem afflicted with retro-chic shallowness when it comes to cocktails.
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Developing your film To get your film developed you need to go to the extreme left of the upper level.
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Evictions are the extreme end of the bailiff's duties.
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Moving down to the extreme left he was discovered by the enemy, and a full battery opened upon him.
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Passage is possible through the branches on the extreme left.
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Roots and leafless bushes stuck up wildly at the extreme end of the strip.
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So why was she tempted to invent such an extreme ending?
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The extreme left doors date from 1948, the work of Arrigo Menerbi, showing the tribulations of early Christians.
fork (off) left/right
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After 50yds fork right on to a track which climbs up Triscombe Combe.
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At the first fork they must go left and at the next fork right and so on until they were challenged.
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Then with a wave she forked left and was gone.
hang a right/left
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Go straight on Vista for two blocks then hang a left.
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First, there is that bizarre enormous mythic metal fish that hangs right inside the doorway.
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I was just in time to see the Sierra hang a left once over the railway.
have two left feet
have two left feet
keep/leave your options open
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At the end of the season, I will keep my options open.
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Either way, you can keep your options open.
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Flexibility is key, keeping your options open.
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Many young people want to keep their options open.
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Some companies are keeping their options open on retaining or dumping anachronistic names.
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We must expect to be surprised in the future, and we must keep our options open.
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You need to keep your options open in order to change courses at a moment's notice.
leave feet first
leave little/nothing to the imagination
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His creation left nothing to the imagination .
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Plastics - that here leave little to the imagination - were widely used in fashion.
leave no stone unturned
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If a solution can be found, Mr Danby, I shall leave no stone unturned until I have found it.
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Union leaders have promised to leave no stone unturned in their search for a way to keep the factory open.
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Henry was a boy who left no stone unturned, and he got a torch and shone the beam inside.
leave sb alone
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Go away and leave me alone .
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Just leave me alone and stop asking me questions.
leave sb cold
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All this talk about counselling and therapy left me cold .
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Ballet just leaves me cold .
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Opera leaves me cold .
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Why are people so crazy about opera? It leaves me completely cold .
leave sth alone
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Leave it alone or you'll break it.
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Our neighbor would have cut the tree down if I hadn't told him to leave it alone .
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That's a very delicate piece of equipment - please leave it alone .
leave sth hanging in the air
leave sth to sb's imagination
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The production successfully leaves much of the detail to the audience's imagination .
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His creation left nothing to the imagination .
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In this respect Wordsworth does not leave enough to the imagination .
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Plastics - that here leave little to the imagination - were widely used in fashion.
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That way they leave things to your imagination .
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The Crims leave it to your imagination , although they don't on the incongruous rockabilly thumper Dickholder.
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There's nothing wrong with being glamorous and sexy, but leaving something to the imagination is advisable.
leave/fly the nest
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After about three weeks, the young cuckoo is ready to leave the nest .
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Barn owls leave the nest at two to three months and are sexually mature at one year.
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If, however, the host appears reluctant to leave the nest , the cuckoo has a more direct approach.
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It is so rarely when all the fledglings have left the nest , to have them all together again.
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Once deposited, she leaves the nest and he immediately fertilizes the eggs.
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She usually builds on the shores of an estuary and there she sits devotedly, seldom leaving the nest .
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Unfortunately for her, the host bird showed no inclination to leave the nest .
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When the host leaves the nest , the cuckoo makes its approach in a long, silent hawk-like glide.
leave/make its mark on sb/sth
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Being on a Kindertransport was, in itself, a traumatic experience that left its mark on otherwise balanced and healthy children.
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Growing up in the shadow of Olivier had already left its mark on Richard professionally.
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History is what you live and it leaves its mark on how you die.
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I was only a boy of ten at the time, but it left its mark on me too.
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It's bound to leave its mark on a man.
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So Hackney has left its mark on the history of madness.
leave/take the phone off the hook
make/leave your mark
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Accompanied by his wife and stepson, he headed south, leaving his mark as a burglar.
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But the company left its mark .
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His great predecessors made their marks with bold deeds.
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Inevitably, perhaps, Jasper Johns's renowned Target is here and undeniably yet again succeeds in making its mark .
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It was here in Iowa in 1988 that the new religious right first made its mark in national politics.
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Its competition made their marks by being faster and easier to use.
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Stop Hinkley Expansion had made its mark .
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The grey streets of London and a Western society on which the permissive 1960s had made its mark were small compensation.
out of/from left field
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Some of the griping comes out of left field.
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When something like this comes out of left field at you....
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While he used more complex sentences consistently, some of them seemed to come out of left field.
put forth leaves/shoots/roots etc
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Suddenly as they exchanged memories each saw the other putting forth leaves.
put/leave sth on the back burner
put/leave/set sth to one side
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Graham has no plans to fly this aircraft at present and will put it to one side as soon as assembly and testing is complete.
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She put it to one side , and opened the folder of photographs.
right, left, and centre
right/left justified
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Numeric quantities can be printed left justified by preceding them with a semi-colon.
sb can take it or leave it
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As for the moody magnetism Method actors devote all their energy trying to perfect, Allen can take it or leave it.
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To others, they can take it or leave it.
sharp left/right
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For this you turn sharp right off the road from Saint-Jean to Saint-Palais, about half-way between those two towns.
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Pass over a broken wall and turn sharp right.
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She walked almost to the edge of the cliff, where the road made a sharp left.
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There was a sharp left turn at the bottom into Ruskin Road.
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Turn sharp left 80yds before a conifer windbreak.
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Turn sharp right downhill and uphill to go through another gate.
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Turn left along this road for three quarters of a mile until the road turns sharp right to become Marsh Road.
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We made a rocky, wet entry, and then took a sharp right turn along a wall.
take a left
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A few miles further on, I took a left on to a B road which curved up even higher.
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He damn nearly took a left , made a huge detour to the east.
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Number 18, straight out here eleven miles; take a left and then straight up that motherfucking mountain.
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On the back seat the two sherry glasses clinked as Rufus took a left turn rather too sharply.
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The fast disappearing figures of the two girls waved back then disappeared as the bike took a left hand bend.
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We took a left on Houston, a left on Sullivan, then we backtracked to MacDougal.
the far left/right
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For now, at least, the cause of tax simplification seems to have been captured by the far right.
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He unplugged the cables, shoved all the levers over to the far left, and rewound the tape.
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However, the fact that the far right won more votes than the far-left should make everyone pause and reflect.
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That Begin had come from the far right, but that in order to govern he has to occupy the center.
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The activities of the far right have been a cause for concern over here for a while now.
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The good tee shot was played to the far right of the fairway to set up a second shot to the left.
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The libertarian view A third view of the revolution has been developed by writers on the far Left of the political spectrum.
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The top of the hierarchy is at the far left.
the hard left/right
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But what happens when you want so much to be right, you end up helping the hard right?
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Labour moderates win over four of the hard left by agreeing that the cuts shall involve as few compulsory redundancies as possible.
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Mr Steve King, leader of the hard left, denounces his fellow-councillors as dunderheads, nincompoops and dolts.
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The showing for the hard left was disappointing.
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They were stars of the hard left, but we have heard little about them during the election struggle.
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Too little, say the Tories, too much says the hard left.
the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing
the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing
the left/sb's left
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A: It is going to still be difficult to heal the wounds that the war left .
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As the train left , looking at her watch, she tried not to think that Edmund was by now already surely married.
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He placed the food on the kang and left dispiritedly.
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It broke up the crew and left the cameraman shaking underneath his camera.
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The mechanism requires some form of communication between the right and left eyes.
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The murder is perfectly executed, except that the baseball bat left at the scene of the crime is sticky with fingerprints.
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They varied only according to whether the approach was from the right or left .
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While pressure was maintained in front, other units swung to the right and left .
the left/the Left
top left/right/centre
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A slightly larger percentage of pairs of brooches were more abraded on the top right than the top left corner.
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Here we want the Series in a column so check Columns in the box at the top left.
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The completed board is shown top left.
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The dark area in the top right is deep, clear water.
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The file was a standard office file with a Prior, Keen, Baldwin label stuck in the top right corner.
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The majority of single brooches examined were found to be more abraded on the top left corner than the top right.
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The plane again runs roughly from top left to bottom right.
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Using a tapestry needle threaded with the embroidery colour, begin at the top right of the motif.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I get twenty-five days' leave a year.
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Phil still has three days' annual leave owing to him.
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They're giving me five days' leave .
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They got married while he was on leave from the army.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I had come on leave first, so I was first to return.