Example sentences of "left [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said that literary work often left me with a depressed feeling . |
| 2 | Once a lady aid a daughter , remote cousins or friends of friends , came , and the girl left me with a yearning heart for some days and a curiosity for years like my curiosity about the lost childish books . |
| 3 | Whereas the raw beauty of the Australian deserts can often be very disturbing , the Sahara left me with a deep sense of peace and tranquillity . ’ |
| 4 | Of course , that left me with a large question — how could people ignore what happened to the Jews ? |
| 5 | A day trip to buy 1½in ash , and half a day in a neighbour 's workshop machining left me with a large number of very small sections , and another project underway . |
| 6 | That particular experience left me with a recurrent dream about falling from great heights . |
| 7 | I paid off his debts , but unfortunately for you , he insisted that he 'd pay me back someday and left me with a considerable number of IOUs . |
| 8 | ‘ She changed that overnight and left me with a broken heart — I will never be the same again . |
| 9 | The wounds they inflicted left me with a permanent scepticism about science and the progress of research . |
| 10 | My first girlfriend left me for a new man . |
| 11 | you left me for a classical guitarist . |
| 12 | The effort to face up to the fact and its consequences demanded all the will-power I could muster , and left me in a mental turmoil . |
| 13 | Instead of the sunset raging a fire in them as Fernando had obviously intended , it had had the reverse effect — doused away a good deal of bitterness and left them with a certain sadness . |
| 14 | 193 for the fourth wicket , with Lamb equalling Colin Cowdrey 's record of six Test centuries against West Indies , ensured a reasonable score , and 358 all out left them with a fair chance of saving the match . |
| 15 | The anxiety about case loads was accompanied by a concern over the provision of ‘ cover ’ together with some concern about the isolation of the development officer 's position , which did not fit into any overall management structure at Age Concern England and left them without a full-time support , supervision and management back-up service . |
| 16 | He left them in a panelled solar beyond the hall , and went to inform his master that he had unexpected guests ; and no more than five minutes later the door of the room opened upon the lord of half Leicestershire , a good slice of Warwickshire and Northampton , and a large honour in Normandy brought to him by his marriage with the heiress of Breteuil . |
| 17 | When he stalked out he left her with a motley crew mostly of accountants and lawyers . |
| 18 | It left her with a great admiration for the contemplatives , even if God still has to forcibly take her by the scruff of the neck and put tier in a position where she has no option but to be still on occasion . |
| 19 | Daughter Helen , 25 , needed constant attention after whooping cough left her with a mental age of just two . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This left her with a severe form of amnesia that reduced her memory span to 20 minutes or less . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | After several hours Matron managed to calm him down but he left her in a terrible mood . |
| 26 | She rang a bell to be let out again and left him without a backward glance . |
| 27 | Handing him a cigarette I left him with a final warning . |
| 28 | The Southampton central defenders left it to Flowers — but Goddard 's challenge won him the ball and left him with a simple chance . |
| 29 | The Court of Appeal decision left him with a two-year term to complete . |
| 30 | He looked as though a cannonball had hit him amidships and left him with a hollow chest and a permanent arch in his back . |