Example sentences of "left [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ideally , she knew , Brian should have been the recipient of all this intellectual and spiritual outpouring , but he was not interested , and her therapist , who should have been the other option , merely picked all the meat off her perceptions and left her with a meaningless pile of bones . |
| 32 | This left her with a severe form of amnesia that reduced her memory span to 20 minutes or less . |
| 33 | Sickened detectives said the old lady was lucky to be alive after the ‘ gruesome ’ attack left her with a broken jaw , a gaping head wound and shock . |
| 34 | She had looked up ; she had looked around ; the frescos left her with an abiding sense of hopelessness , reinforced by the pastor 's impotent testimony . |
| 35 | Her own father had left her readily , left her to an uncertain future , his love for some glamorous Frenchwoman overriding his love and duty to his own child . |
| 36 | She had instigated a series of protracted lawsuits in her own right with authorities in Milan , Vienna and a German city , trying to reclaim a fortune supposedly left her by a defecting father . |
| 37 | There were two daughters of the marriage , Sophie , born in 1830 , who became the wife of Sir George Bailey , of Seal Close , in the Lincolnshire Wolds , and Christabel , born in 1825 , who lived with her parents until in 1853 a small independence , left her by a maiden aunt , Antoinette de Kercoz , enabled her to set up house in Richmond in Surrey , with a young woman friend whom she had met at a lecture of Ruskin 's . |
| 38 | After several hours Matron managed to calm him down but he left her in a terrible mood . |
| 39 | She rang a bell to be let out again and left him without a backward glance . |
| 40 | Lord Atkin laid down the narrow rule in Donoghue v Stevenson [ 1932 ] AC 562 : A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in an injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care . |
| 41 | Handing him a cigarette I left him with a final warning . |
| 42 | The Southampton central defenders left it to Flowers — but Goddard 's challenge won him the ball and left him with a simple chance . |
| 43 | The Court of Appeal decision left him with a two-year term to complete . |
| 44 | He looked as though a cannonball had hit him amidships and left him with a hollow chest and a permanent arch in his back . |
| 45 | CD 's experiences as a reporter of Parliamentary debates for The Morning Chronicle left him with a profound contempt for the quality of the majority of MPs ( early reflected in such satirical sketches as Cornelius Dingwall in SB 47 , and Mr Gregsbury in NN 16 ) , and for the standard of debate and general conduct in the House of Commons ; in AN 8 , for example , he observes that ‘ farm-yard imitations ’ have not as yet been imported into the American Congress from the UK Parliament , and he satirizes Parliamentary oratory and manœuvres in LD i 34 . |
| 46 | CHELSEA defender Paul Elliott is to sue Dean Saunders and Liverpool over the tackle that left him with a severe knee injury . |
| 47 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
| 48 | My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college . |
| 49 | However , a venture as public-works contractor in World War I left him with a considerable bank overdraft , not liquidated until 1922 . |
| 50 | Despite his artistic pretensions , he was apprenticed to a local steel mill , where two accidents left him with a permanent limp and the loss of three fingers of one hand . |
| 51 | And she left him with a quick glance from her eyes , dark as an otter 's pelt , and a smile that was like a gift . |
| 52 | The trades council acceded , and left him with a clear run . |
| 53 | It left him with a two-over par total of 290 , ahead only of the equally out-of-form Jose-Maria Olazabal ( 292 ) of the five Europeans who had survived the 36-hole cut . |
| 54 | Adams has been absent through injury since a fall at Doncaster six weeks ago left him with a broken tibia in his left leg . |
| 55 | The martyrdom of his father in 203 left him with a cold antipathy to the pagan establishment , whether in government or in high culture . |
| 56 | but then you left him for an American carpenter . |
| 57 | The sublime memory of that first descent into the moist , mossy darkness of the jungle earlier in the day blazed again suddenly in his mind 's eye for a moment , but then his numbness left him in a furious rush and a piercing surge of purity and sweetness flashed through the rank darkness of the hut . |
| 58 | It left him in a jealous rage and he wrongly accused his 47-year-old wife of having an affair . |
| 59 | To his increasing embarrassment , Montrose found himself bombarded with solicitations from three directions , which left him in an impossible situation . |
| 60 | Left it on the front doorstep ! |