Example sentences of "[vb past] leave [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , she 'd left him a reassuring note . |
| 2 | He wished they 'd left him the radio mast , so that he could at least listen to some music and pick up the news . |
| 3 | Would you believe that he said I 've got to work on the aeroplane this week , I 've got the week off , I 've got to work on the aeroplane , I , you know , I shall be alright , down the airfield , er on the Wednesday he arrived to see how we were getting on , complaining like made because he had n't been able to find where the cottage was , I said but I 'd left you a detailed map , |
| 4 | I 'd left you the full address , and the telephone number and a fully detailed map . |
| 5 | But he 'd left it a bit late for consideration for her welfare , she thought hazily . |
| 6 | Well if er , if they 'd left it a bit later |
| 7 | She told a magazine : ‘ If we 'd left it the way it was so depressing you 'd have wanted to slash your wrist after seeing it . |
| 8 | He 'd say , " Leave it , it does n't matter , " but if I 'd left it the place would be a pigsty . |
| 9 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 10 | From the Carlowitz peace negotiations with the Habsburgs in 1699 , successive grand viziers began to leave him a good deal of control over foreign affairs , though he again was also entrusted with a wide variety of other and quite different functions . |
| 11 | Shortly after Anna was born her mother married , and a year or so ago her husband died leaving her the house and a little money . |
| 12 | They were all in the kitchen where she had left them a few minutes earlier . |
| 13 | Mr McCloy had left them no address . |
| 14 | However , Laura 's appetite for life had left them no choice but to go ahead with a second major transplant . |
| 15 | But he had left them the inestimable advantage of the eighty Normans on their strong horses . |
| 16 | But yesterday Mr and Mrs Lewis said they were disgusted at the situation , which had left them the victims . |
| 17 | Somebody had left me a note , though , through the cat flap in my flat door . |
| 18 | She rented rooms from a woman whose husband died in Suez and had left her a small income and a house in Whitcher Place . |
| 19 | Jack had left her a shamefaced note with no explanation , a humble note . |
| 20 | She told him her husband had left her a few months before for another woman . |
| 21 | It had left her a little awe-stricken and she made a move to look at it again as it lay on her dressing-table . |
| 22 | Her husband had left her the year before for some Tex-Mex bitch , claiming that she was too boring to live with . |
| 23 | Her desperate , unreasoning terror had left her the moment Penry Vaughan hurtled through the door . |
| 24 | Carrying through life a heavy sense that early separation from Ottery had left him no better than an orphan , Coleridge took comfort in believing that his own grandfather had been an orphan before him , a nameless , parentless child , discovered beneath a Devon sky . |
| 25 | But she had left him no alternative . |
| 26 | His Mum had left him a note on the kitchen table . |
| 27 | In addition , the war years had turned de Gaulle himself into a national leader and given him a unique symbolic identity , and yet had left him an inexperienced politician without an organized or cohesive following . |
| 28 | He ate in the canteen , spoke with some of the robots , wandered into the sitting room where Roirbak had left him the stack of films , rejected every one as boring , and decided to do a little exploring . |
| 29 | His years in the ring had left him the legacy of being quick on his feet , and he caught Larsen some twenty yards short of the door . |
| 30 | If he was going to interrupt , he had left it a little late . |