1.   He distinctly remembered the day his father left.

2.   It was difficult explaining to the children why their father was leaving home.

3.   My father did leave his university to fight the Germans.

4.   He was simply going to have to leave Islam, the way his father had left the Rotary club.

5.   Her father left things with her for mending, like a sheep leaves its wool on a fence, in passing.

6.   My father left the kitchen.

7.   Although loving, her alcoholic father once left her outside his New York club and forgot about her altogether.

8.   Although he never legally changed his last name, Nick had gone by Loving ever since his father left.

9.   Although her father left her mother with a small inheritance, Ms. Kunin does not know how much her mother had by the time the family fled.