Example sentences of "left [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one who left me that brooch you always liked . |
| 2 | I played off seven at my best — politics left me little time for practice , but lack of concentration was the real problem . |
| 3 | No , no she left me this and twenty blank tapes . |
| 4 | Not all mine did , so I left them all as thick as possible and matched the thick with the thin later . |
| 5 | Having the other two women in the house taught Lisa something new about herself ; she and Jonathan stopped sleeping together , which left them all short of space . |
| 6 | If she 'd been in the kid 's place , she 'd have run off by now and left them all to it . |
| 7 | His third round of 67 left them all for dead , and with 11 holes to go for the Open he was ten shots ahead of the field . |
| 8 | Yeah , I left them all out . |
| 9 | A father instituted his son and daughter heirs and left them each prior legacies of certain lands and loan books . |
| 10 | He eventually gave this one up and left them both threatening the car park attendant , but it took him half an hour to cross the street and ring the bell at No. 3 . |
| 11 | She left them both smiling , with instructions to call her at once if there was any change . |
| 12 | Without warning Penry 's arms shot out to pull her on tiptoe against his broad chest , returning the brief little caress with a kiss which left them both shaken when he finally set her square on her feet again . |
| 13 | ‘ They were when I left them this morning ’ |
| 14 | We left them some cigarettes and they sent us on our way . |
| 15 | I left them some tea bags there today . |
| 16 | I found a piece of paper and left my own message : I 'VE BORROWED THE LAND ROVER TO FETCH GARETH 'S CAMERA . |
| 17 | ‘ I left my own planet centuries ago . |
| 18 | With her formidable industry , Mrs Thatcher , over more than a decade , acquired a grasp of EC detail which left her own experts trailing and , more important , often enabled her to wrong-foot hostile EC officials . |
| 19 | Now Seb had the men 's attention he said , more hopefully , ‘ She left her own camp in the forest to come down here hoping to sell a few trinkets to your men . |
| 20 | There was so much blood , and the girl left her own prints where she grabbed at the knife — probably trying to drag it out . |
| 21 | The prisoners who built it left their own rather macabre memento by incorporating a hangman 's noose into one of the rafters , with a nearby door leading into empty space and a four metre drop . |
| 22 | Philanthropy provided women with an acceptable bridge to the public world of work and citizenship , even though , as Anne Summers has argued , it involved a fundamental contradiction , whereby women left their own homes in order to tell working class women to stay in theirs . |
| 23 | They they left their own personal belongings and I know from very close friends that those Palestinians who did n't like the invasion they left Kuwait and went back to Jordan , so we hope they come back . |
| 24 | ‘ When I left you that evening , my emotions were pretty churned up , Folly . |
| 25 | The day I went up to university I left you all , country gentry all … country where my father was stifling . |
| 26 | Erm I left you some money to get your birthday present |
| 27 | When he died six years later he left her all his gardening books : not just the technical instruction manuals , but coffee-table picture books , historical studies and a collection of exquisite , hand-tinted Victorian flower drawings , and a Beatrix Potter original which , she now knew , would keep Maggie in shoes for the rest of her childhood if Phoebe could have brought herself to sell it . |
| 28 | ‘ Arnold left her all the money in the world and she gives us the sort of barbecue we threw for our friends in Haywards Heath . ’ |
| 29 | We went back to oh er my friend Nicola left her all stuff , big bag on the train . |
| 30 | There were some old aunts left her that and that 's like a museum inside it . |