At this point you have got to say something interesting or else the conversation will pass on and leave you isolated once more.

With that final pronouncement on the matter, he judged the conversation closed and left.

But recent conversations with City Hall officials have left them optimistic.

My conversation with the man had left me heavy of heart.

And conversations with people who talk regularly to the President leave a clear picture of ambivalence.

In a way, the brief conversation had left him more confused than before.

The military conversations, it said, left both parties free to decide at any future time "whether or not to assist each other by armed force."

I told him what I thought, but the truth was that the conversation didn't leave me feeling like a wizard.

Their conversation leaves him with hope that he, his wife and his son might return to being a family again.

The conversation had left the area of peace again.