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    Use "leave of absence" in a sentence

    leave of absence example sentences

    leave of absence


    1. Olivieri, she took a leave of absence


    2. The big cheese himself read out our crimes of having been caught dancing without official leave of absence in this, tsk…tsk… risqué strip joint, a most serious transgression for which our chief, a defrocked former priest himself, had little sympathy


    3. But then she added, “What I can do is give you in addition to the two weeks vacation to which you are entitled, two more weeks of unpaid leave of absence and I will increase your salary by two weeks


    4. I convinced the other Latin teacher to … ah, take a leave of absence


    5. “After our company learned of your need to take a leave of absence, we felt you were entitled to some compensation


    6. Had she taken a leave of absence from the Enterprise just to be a witness? Or was she drawn here, unable to resist the impulse that he was trying so hard to resist


    7. “Your Majesty, I request of you a leave of absence of less than two years, so that I could go visit my birth place in New France


    8. Professor Heart was technically on a leave of absence, but it was quite likely that


    9. As for Jim, he had managed to persuade the HR people at the Bank of England in Threadneedle Street that he could take leave of absence for up to four weeks


    10. I took a leave of absence

    11. He called the clinic, and after explaining the situation, in some detail to his partners, he arranged for a two week leave of absence, being on call only for emergencies, allowing his partners to take over for him in the interim


    12. Since he’d never done this before, this leave of absence had conveyed to his staff and partners just how serious the situation he was involved in, was


    13. Since then I’d not gone back to my job as a real estate agent, taking a leave of absence to deal with the grief and to give my body time to heal


    14. She"s thinking of taking a leave of absence and doing some travelling


    15. "The chaplain of the chateau came to me yesterday to beg for leave of absence, in order to take a trip to Hyeres for a week


    16. Daae had requested leave of absence for reasons of health


    17. In ’69, his junior year at Berkeley, he had taken a leave of absence


    18. “Cory fought harder than you can imagine to stay in this school, and when that wasn’t enough, he took a leave of absence to rehabilitate himself


    19. On my first leave of absence I took the bus to Philadelphia


    20. Feeling personally responsible for his clients’ losses McDuff sunk into a deep depression and eventually was given a medical leave of absence from the firm

    21. He took a leave of absence and spent seven years running the risk management and insurance division at Goldman Sachs (while still holding down a part-time professorship at Wharton)


    22. Just as Boris’ leave of absence was expiring, Anatole Kuragin made his appearance in Moscow, and of course in the Karagins’ drawing room, and Julie, suddenly abandoning her melancholy, became cheerful and very attentive to Kuragin


    23. On receiving this letter, Nicholas did not even make any attempt to get leave of absence or to retire from the army, but wrote to his parents that he was sorry Natasha was ill and her engagement broken off, and that he would do all he could to meet their wishes


    24. So he considered it necessary to ask for leave of absence for family and domestic reasons


    25. He at once resigned his commission, and without waiting for it to be accepted took leave of absence and went to Moscow


    26. Ever since that leave of absence had expired, more than a fortnight before, Natasha had


    27. Once—it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the convent—one of the young girls, Mademoiselle Bouchard, who was connected with the Montmorency family, laid a wager that she would ask for a day's leave of absence—an enormity in so austere a community


    28. When the moment came, as the archbishop was passing in front of the pupils, Mademoiselle Bouchard, to the indescribable terror of her companions, stepped out of the ranks, and said, "Monseigneur, a day's leave of absence


    29. child, a day's leave of absence! Three days if you like


    30. Rochester had given me but one week’s leave of absence: yet a month elapsed before I quitted Gateshead

    31. There could be no doubt of his obtaining leave of absence immediately, for he was still only a midshipman; and as his parents, from living on the spot, must already have seen him, and be seeing him perhaps daily, his direct holidays might with justice be instantly given to the sister, who had been his best correspondent through a period of seven years, and the uncle who had done most for his support and advancement; and accordingly the reply to her reply, fixing a very early day for his arrival, came as soon as possible; and scarcely ten days had passed since Fanny had been in the agitation of her first dinner-visit, when she found herself in an agitation of a higher nature, watching in the hall, in the lobby, on the stairs, for the first sound of the carriage which was to bring her a brother


    32. William had obtained a ten days’ leave of absence, to be given to Northamptonshire, and was coming, the happiest of lieutenants, because the latest made, to shew his happiness and describe his uniform


    33. William had obtained a ten days' leave of absence, to be given to Northamptonshire, and was coming, the happiest of lieutenants, because the latest made, to shew his happiness and describe his uniform


    34. I had leave of absence


    35. Just as Borís’ leave of absence was expiring, Anatole Kurágin made his appearance in Moscow, and of course in the Karágins’ drawing room, and Julie, suddenly abandoning her melancholy, became cheerful and very attentive to Kurágin


    36. On receiving this letter, Nicholas did not even make any attempt to get leave of absence or to retire from the army, but wrote to his parents that he was sorry Natásha was ill and her engagement broken off, and that he would do all he could to meet their wishes


    37. Ever since that leave of absence had expired, more than a fortnight before, Natásha had been in a constant state of alarm, depression, and irritability


    38. As he was compelled by ill health to leave the city at an early day, having already obtained leave of absence, he was anxious to obtain a vote on this before he departed, and therefore asked to discharge the Committee of the Whole from the further consideration of the bill, in order to take the sense of the House whether it should go to a third reading or lie on the table for the present


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