Example sentences of "left it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The structure has suffered little at the hand of man , or from the lapse of time , so that without much imagination it is possible to picture it as the builders left it about the year 1410 . |
| 2 | She poured the coffee black , and left it for the three of them to add milk and sugar . |
| 3 | They scarcely left it for the next two weeks , their passion putting her dreams to shame . |
| 4 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |
| 5 | Yeah , and then from that they 've now got these fucking things that show the direction , the sign , the speed and oh its incredible sonar 's been going longer than radar , but only just we were the world leader 's now , I mean we cos we , cos we preserve fuel , we knew exactly , they left it for the last minute to get up there and intercept them . |
| 6 | However , when I stripped the pump off the block , cleaned it and left it on the workbench , I noticed it had leaked a small amount of oil from a 1.5mm hole located near the back underside of the pump . |
| 7 | Useful clinical pointers are the unavailability for various reasons of the patient 's urine tests — lost book , came out in a hurry , left it on the bus — occurring with each clinic visit , and an enquiry as to when the patient last had something to eat . |
| 8 | I wrote a note to Leon , left it on the hall table for him to find when he came down at God knows what time , and went into breakfast . |
| 9 | Your dustbin will be returned near to where you left it , or if possible to a convenient point just inside your gate if you left it on the pavement . |
| 10 | He recapped the whisky bottle and left it on the table . |
| 11 | Rose left it on the coffee table by her husband 's chair , and when he had had his usual mixed fry-up and was preparing to have his snooze , his eye caught it as it lay there . |
| 12 | ‘ Nothing ; I 've already said — I stopped by because Adam asked me to copy a disk for him , and then I looked for my calculator — I left it on the table the other day . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The dear man knows that I collect swans , ’ she explained to Merrill and Richard , ‘ and he left it on the hall table with my name on a label around its neck . |
| 14 | Shoppers fled after a man carried the device into the post office in Castle Street and left it on the counter . |
| 15 | ‘ Pounds , ’ I replied as I wrote out my name and address on the back of the particulars and left it on the counter . |
| 16 | And I left it on the side instead of leaving it in the grill . |
| 17 | And left it on the second hole . |
| 18 | left it on the radiator |
| 19 | Left it on the front doorstep ! |
| 20 | But he either could n't or would n't understand , and he left it at the back . |
| 21 | There is still a skid mark from one end of the runway to where the ‘ Fury left it at the other end . |
| 22 | Theories of personal development , or of the historical and sociological development of humanity , which ignore it or dispense with it , make psychoanalytic theory less advanced than it was when Freud left it at the end of his life . |
| 23 | Once Keith left it at the home of some guy he 'd had a one night stand with , and when he went back to get it he was so embarrassed he had sex with the guy again , which was a mistake for both of them . |
| 24 | In the replay they left it to the 90th and won in extra-time . |
| 25 | In the replay they left it to the 90th and won in extra-time . |
| 26 | And indeed she left it to the very last possible moment ; she almost missed her chance . |
| 27 | Manners , defending his actions , said that the Select Committee left it to the executive Government to select the style and the architects , and he had only acted accordingly . |
| 28 | Park Court , which houses Hilda 's flat , was at one time an outhouse for a local manor , but in 1931 the owner left it to the local council who then converted it into a fire station . |
| 29 | His concern was solely with effectiveness rather than style ; he rarely spoke with more than brief notes and left it to the occasion to furnish the words . |
| 30 | ‘ all had been agreed between the husband and the manager on the Friday , and … the manager left it to the husband to persuade the wife to come to the bank on the Monday to execute the charge and sign the guarantee . |