Example sentences of "[noun] left [pers pn] for " in BNC.

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1	My first girlfriend left me for a new man .
2	Late forties , husband left her for younger woman most likely .
3	Her husband left her for a job in the Arabian Gulf one year ago , and apart from regular maintenance , neither she nor the children have heard from him since .
4	A stunning young woman whose husband left her for a woman twenty years older than himself , never forgave him for it .
5	In the early thirteenth century the canons and the laity left it for new Salisbury on the plain , by the river ; and Old Sarum survived only as a castle and a rotten borough .
6	Terry Melchett , the supermarket manager , whose wife left him for another woman , gave me a hard shove in the small of the back .
7	Sometimes I would catch her looking at me with such intensity of feeling that my breath left me for a moment .
8	The Belgian team ADR are to sue Greg Lemond after the American left them for their French rivals Z. Lemond , the Tour de France winner and world champion , was lured to Z in September for a record £3.5million fee , having served only half of his two-year contract with the Belgian team .
9	The Belgian team ADR are to sue Greg Lemond after the American left them for their French rivals Z. Lemond , the Tour de France winner and world champion , was lured to Z in September for a record £3.5million fee , having served only half of his two-year contract with the Belgian team .
10	Even when Guy left her for the few seconds it took him to remove his own clothes , his murmured words of love and praise still warmed and reassured her .
11	The steppes were the first to be affected , so that in June alone over a million peasants left them for the Volga .
12	The whole field left me for dead .
13	Val left him for the first time since they had set up house , and went briefly ‘ home ’ .
14	My mother left them for me , although you realize I hardly knew her .

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