Example sentences of "left [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For kicks , she climbs mountains and skis , so she is not left wanting for adventure . |
| 2 | It had always distressed him that the West and the Eastern bloc could both budget so generously for what he considered to be the evils of the nuclear industry while millions in the Third World were left wanting for food . |
| 3 | Hit the rinkside at top speed ( or get barged into it ) and your man is left reeling in agony for a few seconds . |
| 4 | The strictly 14 to 18 year-old audience — as well as the older entourage or pressmen and record company executives — are left staring in wonder . |
| 5 | By then , Bedford will be left fighting for survival in four crunching closing fixtures and when Patterson makes his likely league debut it will be in Bath , of all places . |
| 6 | But as the ground dries , some slabs of earth will turn round and then be left sitting above ground , ’ he says . |
| 7 | But when all is said and done , AT&T will be left sitting with stock valued at $100m more than its current USL holdings . |
| 8 | HEART-THROB singer Richard Marx was left shaking with fear after being held up at gunpoint by Chinese gangsters . |
| 9 | The 32-year-old delivery girl was left screaming in agony after the alsatian-collie cross snapped at her and took the top of her ring finger off during her round in Canterbury , Kent . |
| 10 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |
| 11 | Earlier he told the conference that only 4.5 million people were left working in manufacturing industry in Britain . |