Example sentences of "left [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one who left me that brooch you always liked . |
| 2 | I played off seven at my best — politics left me little time for practice , but lack of concentration was the real problem . |
| 3 | That left them little incentive to export . |
| 4 | Although prominent merchants were summoned to the meetings of the Zemsky sobor in the seventeenth century , their dependence on the Tsar left them little leverage . |
| 5 | ‘ They were when I left them this morning ’ |
| 6 | I left them some tea bags there today . |
| 7 | I left my last job in rather strange circumstances and that does n't help things . ’ |
| 8 | Unhappy wretch that I am , I left my native fireside and alienated my home to seek strange truths in undiscovered lands . |
| 9 | I found a piece of paper and left my own message : I 'VE BORROWED THE LAND ROVER TO FETCH GARETH 'S CAMERA . |
| 10 | ‘ I left my own planet centuries ago . |
| 11 | ‘ My accident left my whole family crippled for life ’ |
| 12 | So when the recent rains filled the gutters and left my back garden awash , I assumed an end to the ban might be at hand . |
| 13 | On an early visit there , my father stopped to call on his old friend and he left my younger brother Roy and me in the trap . |
| 14 | MacLeans says it 's owed £20,000 and this morning 's visit to Land Travel 's Bath headquarters left its Managing Director pessimistic about ever getting the money back . |
| 15 | MacLeans says it 's owed £20,000 and this morning 's visit to Land Travel 's Bath headquarters left its Managing Director pessimistic about ever getting the money back . |
| 16 | But spiritually , I would guess , the middle-class punks who were obediently getting their degrees were the ones upon whom the movement left its deepest mark . |
| 17 | The lych-gate creaked and left its prickly signature of rust upon the palm ( I 'll get it fixed , Ma 'm ! ) ; the bell rang not at all unless obliquely pressed by a nor'-nor'-westerly thumb . |
| 18 | He tried , but failed , to kill several other ANC people living in exile across the Lesotho border , and in an armed attack , using submachine guns and hand grenades , he led the attack on Joyce Diphale 's house in Gaberone , Botswana , which left its intended victim unscathed . |
| 19 | The RJWG formed however the basis of the first post-World War Two Act of 1962 ( Jugendwohlfahrtsgesetz , JWG ) which expanded and amended it but left its basic philosophy intact . |
| 20 | Hester , of Chiswick , west London , left her 12-year-old son Thomas in California when she split up with her husband last year and she and her other child Katy , 18 , spent a miserable first Christmas back in England . |
| 21 | And discontented left her hated Bed . |
| 22 | She left her second cup of tea , and she followed me to the front door . |
| 23 | Then , with a final glance in the mirror , reassured that she had her wayward emotions once more under control , she left her tiny sanctuary . |
| 24 | Before she died , she wrote another book — The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — about a woman who left her cruel husband . |
| 25 | She fled the estate and left her new home to spend three months in B&B accommodation awaiting another offer . |
| 26 | Mowed down the first time she left her new baby son |
| 27 | He drew one hand to his lips and kissed it , but his fingers left her other hand to trace the wet that trickled over the blue smudges under her eyes . |
| 28 | But the money with which we paid for the house — and with which she bought her nylons and expensive corsets — came from scrap metal : though her father never spoke to her again after she left her first husband , she was his only child and he died intestate . |
| 29 | THE woman who left her 11-year-old daughter alone in a London flat while she went on holiday to Spain denied last night that she had been heartless or wicked . |
| 30 | He was on duty when his wife-to-be left her military hospital and was put on a troopship for home . |