Example sentences of "left it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His membership of the Conservative party was to prove of short duration and he left it for good just before the government of 1931 was formed . |
| 2 | In the early thirteenth century the canons and the laity left it for new Salisbury on the plain , by the river ; and Old Sarum survived only as a castle and a rotten borough . |
| 3 | the other one , so we left it on that channel , channel nine I think it were . |
| 4 | I 've got fire on , I left it on all dinner while I were outside . |
| 5 | He said , yeah , there has , which came as a great relief to me and we left it at that . |
| 6 | If she 'd been more of a woman , he believed , she would have meekly accepted his word and left it at that . |
| 7 | He said a few kind but ambiguous words about the pieces enclosed being ‘ eminently suitable for the audience they were aimed at ’ and left it at that . |
| 8 | His mother told him she made things to sell and left it at that . |
| 9 | ‘ Frankfurt , ’ Newman said , and left it at that . |
| 10 | So we left it at that . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'll find out , ’ he laughed , and left it at that as Kitty , his wife , arrived with the tea . |
| 12 | I told Kidsons that I did n't think it was right that I should seek re-election , which was coming up on 30 April , and left it at that . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ And he just left it at that ? ’ |
| 14 | It was all she had left now , so she had thanked her sister and left it at that . |
| 15 | The theory of the ISAs would indeed be very crude if Althusser left it at that but he completes the essay with a discussion of ideology , the mode in which the ISAs function . |
| 16 | For example , in his Outlines of Psychology , Wilhelm Wundt said that the local sign was ‘ probably due to the character of the structure of the skin' , and left it at that . |
| 17 | As he dumped his case in the pleasant bedroom , lifted the lid and left it at that , he reflected . |
| 18 | Newman left it at that . |
| 19 | She left it at that , opened a cupboard , found coffee cups , a jug , milk and sugar , and laid a tray . |
| 20 | The Inspector left it at that and as I was waiting expectantly for the interview to end , he said : ‘ Why does an educated man like you spend his time caddying ? |
| 21 | Ed just muttered ‘ Brian who ? ’ and left it at that . ’ |
| 22 | I loosely tossed a swirl of Moroccan curtain over the sofa , slid Act 3 of Orfeo onto the revolving mat , lit an Al Akhbar joss-stick , and left it at that . |
| 23 | It put the wind up me , to tell you the truth , so I 've just brought Hawkbit along and left it at that . " |
| 24 | So you can take it up with the , the er do whatever he felt necessary , but we left it at that . |
| 25 | ‘ For what we are about to receive , ’ said Uncle Philip and left it at that . |
| 26 | I had said to a promising-looking man behind a counter , but it seems I should have said ‘ Cup of tea ’ and left it at that , for he put his hands on his hips and shouted , ‘ What 's stopping you ? ’ |
| 27 | They 've taken his dabs and examined the mallet , but we left it at that when we knew the Yard had been called in and you were on your way . |
| 28 | She could have said , Any day now , and left it at that . |
| 29 | Each time he had given a little shrug , as though to say , ‘ We 'll see ’ , and left it at that . |
| 30 | Lucy reckoned that it was just some middle-aged woman 's thing , and left it at that . |