The phrase 'leaving them behind' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe a situation when someone has gone away and left someone or something behind. For example: "John had to move away for work, leaving his family behind in their small town."
I thought about leaving them behind, but there was no dry spot to be found.
"I also feel incredible angst for my colleagues, leaving them behind," said Greste.
The working-class blacks who made him feel guilty for leaving them behind?
All summer long, I'd been making friends and leaving them behind, and it seemed pointless now to deepen any connections.
In 1946, leaving them behind, he moved to Pyongyang, now the capital of North Korea, to found the Kwang-Ya Church, a predecessor of the Unification Church.
Breathing wasn't as difficult as they had imagined, but Hebah had a hard time contending with all the material around her. "I kept losing things or leaving them behind," she said.
Lupino's camera moves slowly toward the floor and parts the dancers, leaving them behind and leaving Ann isolated, as the movie — and Ann herself — contemplate the incommensurable emotional distance that separates her, seemingly definitively, from the realm of regular lovers.
Lupino's camera moves slowly toward the floor and parts the dancers, leaving them behind and leaving Ann isolated, as the movie and Ann herself contemplate the incommensurable emotional distance that separates her, seemingly definitively, from the realm of regular lovers.
Removing them "sometimes causes more damage than leaving them behind", said the trauma specialist Ken Boffard, who is part of Obilale's medical team at Netcare Milpark hospital in Johannesburg.
If you have a lot of them, reconsider leaving them behind and moving overseas.
