Then the detectives would leave a suspect alone in the interrogation room for 20 minutes.

When he finally went to the street, the officer and the detective had left.

Two detectives left saying that they were going to "drive right over."

The patient regained consciousness later, but the detective had left.

On a sign from Ashenden the detectives left the room.

She entered the room just as the detective was leaving.

There was nothing to indicate that the detective had not left the house.

At noon, she said, the detectives left him alone in the office.

But the detective never leaves his station house in Flushing.

Then the lawyer and the two young detectives left the house, locking the door behind them.