Example sentences of "had left [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The occupying Japanese forces had apparently been so terrified by the Toraja that after a few peremptory massacres they had left them to themselves . |
| 2 | Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions . |
| 3 | Her father had left them for a woman in France . |
| 4 | Swan felt very much at a disadvantage , especially when Amaranth told him that she had promised to go to The Times/Sunday Times party with Charles , who had left them for a moment to have a quick word with Peter Riddell of The Times . |
| 5 | Group chairman Kneale Ashwell said the deepening world recession had left them with no option but to cut jobs . |
| 6 | When Mrs Parker had left them with their coffee and cigarettes , Teesdale spoke to the chaplain . |
| 7 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 8 | We wondered what stupid idiot had left them on the Tube . ’ |
| 9 | That was why her mother had n't wrapped them up but had left them on her pillow twined around a single rose . |
| 10 | There were candles and matches on a ledge just inside the front door where she had left them on her last visit , for Lydia was in fact a sufficiently practical person and not the ass she sometimes chose to appear . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Until then , Japanese drug firms ' poor R&D and their emphasis on selling imported drugs had left them in poor shape to compete internationally . |
| 13 | And it came to him , with a cold steely horror chilling the bloodstream as if from a lethal injection — he had left them in the stolen mini . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's so humid , ’ they moaned , and they wondered why it was that the storm had left them in this stifling , steamy condition when storms were supposed to clear the air . |
| 15 | He stretched and looked about him , feeling good , noticing his furs where he had left them in the corner of the room . |
| 16 | She had left them in Glasgow . |
| 17 | Their mother had left them in the vehicle while she put a birthday card through a neighbour 's letterbox . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He had left me with the one who would become the most famous . |
| 20 | She had left me with nothing . |
| 21 | and er building trade work , both of these things had left me with the qualifications for be abl be able to do it . |
| 22 | Charlie had left me with only two choices : I could try to run the baker 's shop myself and give up any thought of taking a degree , or I could sell out to the highest bidder . |
| 23 | On another occasion , having been introduced to a pop personality at a cocktail party , his name — it was then not as celebrated outside his own world as it is now had left me within five seconds . |
| 24 | ‘ When she arrived at his flat one night and told him that she had left me after admitting everything , he was furious . |
| 25 | He had now grown accustomed to me , and , as he was too ill for any kind of polite act , had left me in no doubt that he liked me . |
| 26 | It had left me in White Face 's power . |
| 27 | Most memorable was Tory , haughtily holding her very intelligent head in the air , but missing her husband , who had left her for a ‘ woman officer ’ . |
| 28 | He could n't be sure she would have the heart to go on running racehorses if she were forced to believe Harry a murderer … if she thought he had left her without warning , without a note , if she were worried sick by not knowing where he 'd gone , and was also haunted by the thought of Harry with Angela Brickell . ’ |
| 29 | They had left her at school as long as they could , because they did n't know what to do with her ; but now she was to take this course and later get a job on a newspaper . |
| 30 | 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 . |