Example sentences of "and left me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony offered to walk back towards the vehicle , now a long way off , and left me to think about it all . |
| 2 | Dad patted me on the head and Mum gives me this little kiss on the cheek and then they went off and left me with this old woman . |
| 3 | Mum kept calling her ‘ sister ’ , but she was n't my sister — Annie was and I did n't want to stay there , but they went off and left me . |
| 4 | It continued from one in the morning till half past five , and left me pale and fainting . |
| 5 | My first natural impulse was to shout , to get help from whoever had come : and between intention and voice a whole stream of thoughts suddenly intruded and left me silent , open-mouthed to call out but unsure of the wisdom . |
| 6 | ‘ They trussed me up in a skip and left me under the showers . |
| 7 | He 's drunk enough to float the Mauretania , and left me to drive him home that 's had so little over me lips you would think it was Lent . ’ |
| 8 | But it was n't a good start in the lessons of love , and left me very arid in such matters . |
| 9 | But then he suddenly dumped me for no apparent reason and left me broken-hearted . |
| 10 | ‘ He had an affair and left me , but he keeps coming back ’ |
| 11 | My father died when I was five , and left me a large sum of money in trust until my twenty-fifth birthday . |
| 12 | One day he took me aside and left me with the designer , a nervous girl who always wore black . |
| 13 | Keith Lascelles took my hand , squeezing it reassuringly as he led me across the stage , up the wide stairway dividing the orchestra , and left me to arrange myself on the rostrum . |
| 14 | Many 's the time I 've been about to introduce the top of the bill , when from behind the curtain the urgent whisper , ‘ He 's pissed — fill in while we sober him up , ’ has stopped me in my tracks and left me out there telling gags for an hour or more while the star is force-fed black coffee . |
| 15 | Andy , my anaesthesiologist , gave me a smile and a pre-med jab and left me to float in a warm sea-green calm which was interrupted by the slap of rubber swing-doors and a breathless , ‘ Hi , my name 's Nudleman . |
| 16 | Then they drifted back into the pub and left me standing alone . |
| 17 | He went into a cubicle and I thought I should follow him but he pushed me away , locked the door and left me standing outside . |
| 18 | I remember when the sheep were quite happy nibbling grass and left me alone to munch my sandwiches . |
| 19 | The effort to face up to the fact and its consequences demanded all the will-power I could muster , and left me in a mental turmoil . |
| 20 | They packed their bags , sold the house and left me : I got that news in prison . |
| 21 | Instead of getting someone to calm me down and talk to me , a whole bunch of them came and jumped on me and rushed me down to the block and left me there . |
| 22 | Mrs Reed smacked my face and left me without a word . |
| 23 | Then he ran out and left me crying on the kitchen floor . |
| 24 | But then you rushed off and left me without a chance to say the most important thing of all … ’ |
| 25 | We talked for a while , and then my parents , surprisingly tactfully , murmured things about shopping and left me and Anna sitting at the little round table , under the blue umbrella . |
| 26 | From the densely stacked bookcases he took down some lavishly illustrated volumes and left me alone to wonder at them . |
| 27 | I fell to the ground in great pain , and the man and the girl ran into the woods as fast as they could , and left me . |
| 28 | He turned and left me , and ran down the mountain . |
| 29 | It means some bastard not only laid me out cold , and stuck me face-down in the Comer , but even rammed me well down into the mud with a foot in the small of my back to make dead sure of me , before he lit out and left me there to drown . ’ |
| 30 | It 's about the fact that when you walked out and left me on Saturday night you went straight to Lexy ! |