Example sentences of "had left [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 2 | We wondered what stupid idiot had left them on the Tube . ’ |
| 3 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 4 | Their mother had left them in the vehicle while she put a birthday card through a neighbour 's letterbox . |
| 5 | He stretched and looked about him , feeling good , noticing his furs where he had left them in the corner of the room . |
| 6 | and er building trade work , both of these things had left me with the qualifications for be abl be able to do it . |
| 7 | So it was , I assume , that he felt immediately able to talk to me in a businesslike and trusting way , and by the end of our meeting , he had left me with the administration of a not inconsiderable sum to meet the costs of a wide range of preparations for his coming residency . |
| 8 | Often , after he had left her at the door of her apartment , he would ridicule himself An old man with a Pygmalion fantasy . |
| 9 | To lose her now was going to be ten times worse than when she had left her at the Foundling Hospital , and she was making herself ill with worry . |
| 10 | Either by accident or as punishment for his sins , she had left him to the mercy of the Bogeyman . |
| 11 | The conversation with Rosie had left him with the impression Rain was carrying the keys , and her own deliberately misleading answer that evening had confirmed it . |
| 12 | Anyway I was back in the office when I suddenly felt hot and faint … you see I had left him on the island , with three lanes still to cross . |
| 13 | And of course that was why Hardy had taken against him , why he had left him on the sidelines any time he picked a team for some action , why he had now given him a job that he knew anyone else in the unit would have balked at . |
| 14 | It was funny he should have remembered the row that week-end , when Patricia had left him in the cinema , and the per … pervert had touched his leg , because that was when all this had really started . |
| 15 | No trace was found of the men who had left him in the yard . |
| 16 | The thief had leapt into the Sierra after Janet had left it with the engine running . |
| 17 | What if Ben had left it with the man in Lancaster ? |
| 18 | In both cases the creditor had left it to the debtor husband to deal with the surety , his wife , and had done nothing to satisfy itself that she understood what she was doing or to protect her from abuse by the debtor of the influence and reliance that would be likely to be present . |
| 19 | The circumstance that the employer had left it to the contractor to provide the requisite third party security would not , without more , prevent the employer from enforcing the security . |
| 20 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 21 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |
| 22 | He had left it on the passenger seat , where it lay , legs in the air , headless rump deep in the upholstery . |
| 23 | He had n't been in the lodge since Helena Naulls had left it on the death of her husband . |
| 24 | A circle of light illuminated the group gathered round the bank of screens ; another shone on the blue box , the battered structure that the Doctor call his TARDIS , standing where the androids had left it near the edge of the room . |