Example sentences of "and left [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A father instituted his son and daughter heirs and left them each prior legacies of certain lands and loan books . |
| 2 | If she 'd been in the kid 's place , she 'd have run off by now and left them all to it . |
| 3 | He eventually gave this one up and left them both threatening the car park attendant , but it took him half an hour to cross the street and ring the bell at No. 3 . |
| 4 | The events of the year seemed to have washed over them and left them unaltered . |
| 5 | By 8.45am I 've picked out his feet and brushed him off , mucked out , prepared hay , water and evening feed and left them ready . |
| 6 | Something changed in his face then , some fleeting spectre that drained the life from his eyes and left them cold and hard . |
| 7 | The press reports confirmed this , adding that the Fascists cornered their victims in shop doorways and left them felled and bleeding . |
| 8 | Julia got up from her chair as quietly as she possibly could and left them alone . |
| 9 | The have built suburbs and left them stranded , separate from the ‘ official ’ culture . |
| 10 | It continued from one in the morning till half past five , and left me pale and fainting . |
| 11 | I remember when the sheep were quite happy nibbling grass and left me alone to munch my sandwiches . |
| 12 | From the densely stacked bookcases he took down some lavishly illustrated volumes and left me alone to wonder at them . |
| 13 | She went out then and left me alone . |
| 14 | If you 'd done as I asked and left me alone then none of it would have happened . ’ |
| 15 | My first natural impulse was to shout , to get help from whoever had come : and between intention and voice a whole stream of thoughts suddenly intruded and left me silent , open-mouthed to call out but unsure of the wisdom . |
| 16 | But then he suddenly dumped me for no apparent reason and left me broken-hearted . |
| 17 | ‘ That was a hard woman who laughed and left me stranded . ’ |
| 18 | They took the keys and the car and left me stranded . ’ |
| 19 | Twenty-one when she met Peter , she married him two years later and left him six years after that . |
| 20 | Four boys had beaten him up , forced him into a laundry basket and left him helpless under a cold shower , and all for a few ill-judged words and a bar of soap . |
| 21 | His father wrote a regular monthly letter and , after Frank had been at Rowden for two years , one of the letters told him that his grandmother Blanche Arbuthnot had died , and left him all her money and her house in Meath . |
| 22 | Mr Crumwallis gazed at him in amazement , as if the worm had turned , and left him flabbergasted at the depths of human ingratitude suddenly exposed . |
| 23 | In despair John Pringle accepted a blackmail deal which , however irksome , seems to have been honoured and left him unmolested afterwards . |
| 24 | And on the first day of his eight-day tour of the Greek Islands with wife Lady Mills , it ‘ went ’ again and left him unable to walk . |
| 25 | It had destroyed his promise and left him unable to sustain a relationship . |
| 26 | And left him short and then when he had those bad debts |
| 27 | FRENCH farmers dragged a British lorry driver from his cab and left him stranded after cutting the brake pipes . |
| 28 | His long fever had peeled the flesh from his bones and left him half his proper bulk , and the brown of his cheeks was yellow and drawn . |
| 29 | I shrugged and left him alone . |
| 30 | ‘ Excuse me , ’ said Madge , and left him alone pondering on the strangeness of women and of Madge Grimsilk in particular . |