Example sentences of "left [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My father left me in sole and total charge , ’ she said slowly , battling to retain control of her emotions . |
| 2 | Well what do you think would happen to the poor things if left them in that water ? |
| 3 | This four-nil win at Watford on Saturday — their sixth in seven games — left them in third place in the First Division . |
| 4 | And er then I left them in forty six and went back to me first love , and er it was a little self contained union . |
| 5 | He left them in safe hands . |
| 6 | BELVILLE : I know , my dear , I left you in great anxiety but 't is an anxiety you have brought upon yourself , and I have not been easy ever since I parted from you . |
| 7 | He left her in 1927 and in 1941 married the painter Lilian Mendelson , divorced wife of Jacob Mendelson , an art dealer . |
| 8 | She , no she , cos she 'd s what , he 'd done his business pel pissed off and left her in this house and she did n't even know . |
| 9 | Her marriage to John Fenwick ( possibly on 8 May 1781 at St Dunstan , Stepney ) , a radical author and translator , proved disastrous and she left him in 1800 ‘ determined … to consider myself and children totally separated from his bad or good fortunes ’ . |
| 10 | When she left him in 1983 he was devastated . |
| 11 | Miguel was his usual self and his efficiency left him in fifth place . |
| 12 | Cottrell 's 82 left him in fifth place , along with Tim Paterson of Letherhead , with his Cheshire captain Phil Bailey of Caldy and another Cheshire player Gareth Bradley of Bramhall in a group on 302 . |
| 13 | He felt it would soon be the moment to make a move , and her behaviour left him in little doubt as to what sort of move it should be . |
| 14 | Mark Roe was altogether more scathing about the problem after a first round of 85 which left him in last place in the field . |
| 15 | She left him in 1951 and joined Billy Smart 's circus . |
| 16 | His agent , Peter Müller , had prepared it and left it in one of the embassy ‘ letter boxes ’ for collection . |
| 17 | Böhme , a 45-year-old historian , joined the former SED at the age of 17 but left it in 1976 in protest at the persecution of intellectuals . |
| 18 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
| 19 | The importance of damping down retaliation is dramatized by the following memoir by a British ( as if the first sentence left us in any doubt ) officer : |