Example sentences of "[pers pn] left [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I left them in the self-induced bedlam of a Harvey Nichols changing room , and promised to meet them later at the flat to examine our spoils , then went to meet Dee .
2 Handing him a cigarette I left him with a final warning .
3 So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head .
4 And I I have n't I with the No it 's very simple , I left it to the select committees of the House of Commons .
5 you left me for a classical guitarist .
6 And as your career prospects have changed so dramatically in just a year , I 'd say your girlfriend was probably justified in feeling you left her for no good reason .
7 but then you left him for an American carpenter .
8 Padding out as silently as she came , she left me to the early morning quiet .
9 And she left him with a quick glance from her eyes , dark as an otter 's pelt , and a smile that was like a gift .
10 Sam Somerville 's rental car had been where she left it in the short-stay carpark at Heathrow .
11 Yeah , after the devastation we left you in the other day
12 Covering the work to protect from frost and rain , we left it for a few days to dry , which helps the shuttering to loosen itself too .
13 Lord Atkin laid down the narrow rule in Donoghue v Stevenson [ 1932 ] AC 562 : A manufacturer of products , which he sells in such a form as to show that he intends them to reach the ultimate consumer in the form in which they left him with no reasonable possibility of intermediate examination , and with the knowledge that the absence of reasonable care in the preparation or putting up of the products will result in an injury to the consumer 's life or property , owes a duty to the consumer to take reasonable care .
14 Yeah , and then from that they 've now got these fucking things that show the direction , the sign , the speed and oh its incredible sonar 's been going longer than radar , but only just we were the world leader 's now , I mean we cos we , cos we preserve fuel , we knew exactly , they left it for the last minute to get up there and intercept them .
15 In the replay they left it to the 90th and won in extra-time .
16 In the replay they left it to the 90th and won in extra-time .
17 I ca n't understand why they left it till the last moment ?
18 It left her with a great admiration for the contemplatives , even if God still has to forcibly take her by the scruff of the neck and put tier in a position where she has no option but to be still on occasion .
19 It left him with a two-over par total of 290 , ahead only of the equally out-of-form Jose-Maria Olazabal ( 292 ) of the five Europeans who had survived the 36-hole cut .
20 It left him in a jealous rage and he wrongly accused his 47-year-old wife of having an affair .
21 Recently deserted by her husband Cruncher ( ‘ He left me for a wee young thing of 58 ’ ) she 's found it hard enough to make ends meet in the past .
22 He left them in a panelled solar beyond the hall , and went to inform his master that he had unexpected guests ; and no more than five minutes later the door of the room opened upon the lord of half Leicestershire , a good slice of Warwickshire and Northampton , and a large honour in Normandy brought to him by his marriage with the heiress of Breteuil .
23 He left her on the hard shoulder , near Epping , Essex , saying she would only have to wait 15 minutes .
24 When he stalked out he left her with a motley crew mostly of accountants and lawyers .
25 He left her at the large ornate gate , and she walked up the short drive to the front door .
26 After several hours Matron managed to calm him down but he left her in a terrible mood .
27 Once inside he left her in a dim , dingy room where she sat with her bundle and the firm belief that the cruel joke would soon be over and she 'd be taken back to her ward .
28 He left us for a glamorous Frenchwoman and he never even sent me a card in all that time . ’
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