Example sentences of "they left [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the weeks before they left they worked extremely hard at their fitness , were coached by Geoff Boycott to improve their batting technique , and insisted to the press that people back home in England were going to be pleasantly surprised . |
| 2 | As they left they received a kiss on their hands . |
| 3 | The Greens returned home at half-past one in the morning , but were up to welcome the musicians for breakfast on their way further north ; before they left they sang some ‘ excellent glees . ’ |
| 4 | Before they left they blasted the Government for demolishing more than 400,000 jobs in the industry in three years . |
| 5 | They left me at school , Mum and Dad and Annie . |
| 6 | On Jerba I had made it clear that I was not in the market for anything and they left me alone . |
| 7 | I found a medicine dropper and used that to feed it the milk they left me . |
| 8 | I do n't know why they left me there alive . ’ |
| 9 | Talking for the first time about his ordeal , Brian says : ‘ They left me in no doubt I was a leading suspect . |
| 10 | Even Daley Thompson , who insisted he had very little interference from teachers , said they helped him in a non-involved way : ‘ They were all right ; they left me alone and let me get on with what suited me . |
| 11 | " They were very polite while I was here with them , but they must have boiled and fumed with indignation when they left me , " he said , chuckling . |
| 12 | Instead , they left me alone in a small boat in the middle of the ocean , with only enough food for a few days , while they sailed away . |
| 13 | They left me , alone , on the beach of a small island in the middle of the Indian Ocean . |
| 14 | That second time I went in they left me there for two hours , and I was really cracking up . |
| 15 | I was taken down to the block [ punishment wing ] and they left me there for two days . |
| 16 | After I 'd quietened down they left me alone . |
| 17 | When I got back to the cell the boys were keen to hear everything , but , tactfully , they left me alone to be with my thoughts . |
| 18 | They left me alone because they thought I had hours to go . |
| 19 | But on the whole they left me to my own devices . |
| 20 | They left me and moved on to the little Jewish family . |
| 21 | Because what they left me , I can not look after my wife and support my other two kids . |
| 22 | When he drew level she said , ‘ They left me a house and all the fruits of their labour . |
| 23 | and they left me behind ! |
| 24 | And they left me instead ! |
| 25 | well they were they was rolling in all the muck in the farmyard but they , they went to the pies just put their noses round them and turned them over and then they s and true as god made little apples they started walking round these pies and they left them and they were still there when we went away . |
| 26 | They left them the ignominy of being beaten and then ignored . |
| 27 | and they left them up there . |
| 28 | Though they loved him as if he were their own child they left him out of all things that mattered in the running of the house . |
| 29 | She hinted that she could be of more help to them than her brother , provided that they left him alone in his present state of health . |
| 30 | For a fleeting moment he braced himself for confrontation , suspecting that they would want all three bags , but they left him his . |