Example sentences of "[noun sg] left [pers pn] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TV STAR Leslie Crowther went home for Christmas dinner yesterday two months after a road crash left him in a coma . |
| 2 | A stunning young woman whose husband left her for a woman twenty years older than himself , never forgave him for it . |
| 3 | Her husband left her for a job in the Arabian Gulf one year ago , and apart from regular maintenance , neither she nor the children have heard from him since . |
| 4 | As a boy Waugh had longed to go to Eton , which might have made a radical of him and where he might have met Orwell , and did not ; his first aristocratic wife left him after a year , and for an Etonian ; and his sojourns in a great Elizabethan house in Worcestershire as a young man , the guest of a friend , allowed him to glimpse a world of moats , battlements and rolling parkland from which in spirit he never awoke . |
| 5 | My wife left me without a word at the end of March , leaving only a Dear John letter on the table . |
| 6 | I managed to get away but , ’ he paused and touched the scar on his cheek , 'they left me with a memento . |
| 7 | Lead singer , bassist and songwriter Edgar Summertyme is only twenty-one years old , but early exposure to an older brother 's record collection left him with a headful of songs by The Yardbirds , Love , The Byrds and Them . |
| 8 | The exhibition left me with a feeling that the artist was both the hunter an the hunted , laying open her background in order to investigate , to analyse . |
| 9 | Sometimes I would catch her looking at me with such intensity of feeling that my breath left me for a moment . |
| 10 | The realisation left him with a feeling of anguish so great that it threatened to engulf him . |
| 11 | The attack left them with a fear of going out at night . |
| 12 | What happened at Abbotsfield that summer left her with a distaste for all religions , not just Christianity . |
| 13 | Colleagues er , the defeat of Wider Democracy last year left us with a bit of a hole in our constitution . |
| 14 | His death left me with a sense of desolation . |