1.   Archer bowed and left the stage.

2.   Everyone except the main character gradually leaves the stage.

3.   He left the stage to rapturous applause.

4.   She bowed and left the stage.

5.   Mitterand stayed on until the presidential election, when he bowed out and left the stage to Chirac.

6.   Romeo left the stage, to enthusiastic applause.

7.   This was the way Therese would have looked if she had never left the stage, never married Friedrich, never had years of misery and failure.

8.   I leave it behind when I leave the stage.

9.   The young man left the stage and the curtains folded together.