Example sentences of "left [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alley opened out into a large square courtyard from which , on all sides , reared five-storey buildings , all in a state of dilapidation , and outside of each was a mound of filth and rubbish , some giving off a stench which left nothing to the imagination as from what it was derived . |
| 2 | Her black satin dress left nothing to the imagination , and neither did the way the man with her was gazing into her eyes . |
| 3 | He left nothing of the kind with me and never made any reference to such a document . |
| 4 | Javier Lòpez left everyone in the shade with this snap — the winning entry in BPXColombia 's photography contest . |
| 5 | ‘ It left me as the sweeper , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ They trussed me up in a skip and left me under the showers . |
| 7 | Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined . |
| 8 | Perhaps it would be best if you left me at the cottage and went back to London . |
| 9 | Look at that time my dad did that lady over there and left me on the phone and told me to stay there and I was like that . |
| 10 | Padding out as silently as she came , she left me to the early morning quiet . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've got to lie here for the next twelve hours without moving with an ice-pack over half my face because you walked out and left me to the mercy of a predatory pit-popsy ! ’ |
| 12 | One day he took me aside and left me with the designer , a nervous girl who always wore black . |
| 13 | She got what she wanted and left me with the rough end of the stick … . |
| 14 | I asked myself why Jean-Claude left me in the dark . |
| 15 | When I had the baby , Stephen , the screws left me in the outside hospital but they took my clothes . |
| 16 | ‘ Your eyes never left me in the hall . |
| 17 | You really left me in the shit … ’ |
| 18 | You really left me in the shit . ’ |
| 19 | He left them on the road and went and tried again . |
| 20 | Florence Ames took off her old shoes and left them on the step . |
| 21 | Two days before the 1986 meeting I took my starting blocks home to my flat and left them on the kitchen floor . |
| 22 | He took limes from his pyjama pockets and left them on the blankets . |
| 23 | She pushed them down and left them on the floor . |
| 24 | We left them on the boat while we wandered into the town to discuss with Sunsail a fuel tank that a previous charterer had filled with water instead of diesel . |
| 25 | She left them on the stone and again they disappeared . |
| 26 | Southwards the long arms of Isambard himself were stretched to receive them ; the fire died on their heels after that brief flare , and left them on the points of English swords . |
| 27 | I remember David started crying but Ralph would not back down and say we deserved the money , or to have some of it , so we just left them at the Brummel Club before doing their thing . |
| 28 | Their poverty and loneliness were part of an isolation from ordinary family life which left them at the margins even of childhood memory . |
| 29 | Nellie had packed the two children 's bags and left them at the door . |
| 30 | Corbett left them at The Bull , its narrow windows draped with black crepe in mourning for the landlord whose coffin now stood outside the main door , perched rather crazily on its wooden trestles . |