Example sentences of "left with the " in BNC.

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1 The excitement of the adventure started to dissipate and I was left with the cold reality of knowing that I was on a train with hardly any money , no ticket and nowhere to go .
2 The poorest people in our society are left with the poorest facilities — and that 's probably the same wherever you go .
3 So one is left with the impossible task of explaining why a perfectly respectable causal chain should ‘ go mental ’ for a while and then , recovering its non-senses , should return to being purely physical .
4 A letter can be left with the Will specifying the arrangements for the next of kin to follow .
5 Sloping drives are often left with the parallel ridges made by the tamping board .
6 Relatively weak description of the ‘ he was very glad of my arrival ’ sort is cut , and we are left with the histrionic handclasp of Stepan Verkhovensky the actor manqué whom no reader of The Possessed will ever forget .
7 Among Bangladeshis , often enough it is a husband and wife and their sons of various ages , the daughters being left with the joint family in Bangladesh which from there casts its light and shadow on the lives of Bengali women in Britain .
8 A few minutes later , the Base Notes come through , and you 're left with the final , true fragrance created by the Master perfumer , Guy Robert , creator of scents for Dior and Hermès .
9 My wife has left with the two girls saying ‘ I canny take any more ’ .
10 She ground a half-smoked cigarette into the ashtray , and McLeish was left with the feeling that she would willingly have done the same to the live flesh of Angela Morgan , if available .
11 This will not be good news for those banks left with the bad debts .
12 There is no mention of it being outside the camp , and instead we are left with the picture of the tent , filled with the glory of God , travelling with the people as they continue onwards ( 40.34–8 ) .
13 On other occasions something datable may by chance have been left with the hoard , as with the hoard of gold and silver coins deposited during the English Civil War at Breckenbrough in North Yorkshire ; the pot in which the hoards were found also contained two receipts for requisitioned cheese dating to 17 January 1644 , so we can be confident that the hoard was deposited in the run-up to the Battle of Marston Moor in July of that year .
14 But we are still left with the problem of just how the Stewart monarchy could achieve what it did .
15 Yesterday , the market was left with the impression that Midland might not be worth quite as much as analysts had hoped and the shares were marked back 7 to 365p .
16 They were left with the feeling of not getting anywhere .
17 Detailed administrative and procedural arrangements were left with the officers of the Board and the District and , at last , Jacques was invited to attend subsequent meetings of the Cambridge Board pending his nomination as a WEA member .
18 Perhaps we are left with the conclusion that the main ingredient in the campaign which resulted in the Foxton Inclined Plane was the enthusiastic advocacy of Gordon Thomas himself .
19 If , on the other hand , following a political solution to the West Bank , Jordan were left with the current refugee population but without substantial Western support , its future economic and political stability would be in question .
20 The impression left with the chairman of the Liaison Committee was that the use made by the broadcasters of televised proceedings had been ‘ balanced and interesting ’ .
21 Having ruled out the alternatives we are left with the conclusion that the context-specificity seen in fig. 4.5(a) depends in some way on the context functioning as a retrieval cue .
22 Although the piece was a well balanced probe into the Phoenix career ( and an immensely interesting career it is too ) , one was left with the feeling that she would n't have been there had it not been for the status of her interviewer .
23 All the prize guys who were brilliant at football had disappeared and I was left with the swots . ’
24 Gedge is left with the more pleasurable job of general promotion .
25 The chosen method was to calculate his net loss , taking into account that he would have paid income tax on earnings , then adding back ‘ golden handshake ’ tax so that he would be left with the net amount after the Revenue had collected tax on the damages .
26 Less bone is ingested by diurnal raptors , because some of it is left with the uneaten carcase after soft parts have been stripped off , whereas more of the bone is eaten by owls .
27 ‘ The high priest got all the young good-looking ones while I was left with the old fat ones . ’
28 A resourceful and pacy winger , with a strong shot , Peter deservedly earned the affection of all the Palace clientele of the mid-1950s , but these were troubled days at Selhurst Park and fans of that period are left with the feeling that we never really saw Peter Berry consistently produce the level of football of which he was undoubtedly capable .
29 One is left with the reflection that Fred Dawes gained an excellent reputation with Crystal Palace even though we were , in all honesty , a poor quality outfit while he was here after the war .
30 Just eleven players since 1905 have appeared in Palace colours more often than Vince but , in reviewing his career with us , one is left with the feeling that , while it promised to climb the highest peaks of success , it in fact merely reached the approaches .
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