Example sentences of "[vb past] left [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd left her at the inn without so much as a word , and here he was , calmly indulging his hobby while she 'd had to trek after him . |
| 2 | When he 'd left her at the entrance to Newcastle Place the day Pa died she 'd ached with disappointment that she might never see him again . |
| 3 | We 'd left her in the car actually . |
| 4 | who 'd left her in the lurch |
| 5 | She looked up at Trent , as if seeing him for the first time : ‘ I 'd have drowned if you 'd left me on the Key . ’ |
| 6 | He 'd left them in the Courtesy Cleaners : they 'd be ready in time for Easter Saturday . |
| 7 | He 'd left them in the refrigerator factory … ? |
| 8 | She 'd left them in the caravan , and he just see the keys |
| 9 | If we 'd left it to the day we 'd have been sunk ! |
| 10 | I 'd left it to the end of the meal before I said anything about being arrested . |
| 11 | Well apparently it had gone to Andrew , and , Andrew had cos Andrew is n't in the office all the time , and he 'd left it in the office , and I think they faxed it by th Andrew was gon na talk to somebody about it , but of course , by the time he 'd got there , it 'd already been done and this had happened so I 'm gon na ring erm Job Centre when I get home . |
| 12 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 13 | We wondered what stupid idiot had left them on the Tube . ’ |
| 14 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 15 | Their mother had left them in the vehicle while she put a birthday card through a neighbour 's letterbox . |
| 16 | He stretched and looked about him , feeling good , noticing his furs where he had left them in the corner of the room . |
| 17 | and er building trade work , both of these things had left me with the qualifications for be abl be able to do it . |
| 18 | So it was , I assume , that he felt immediately able to talk to me in a businesslike and trusting way , and by the end of our meeting , he had left me with the administration of a not inconsiderable sum to meet the costs of a wide range of preparations for his coming residency . |
| 19 | Often , after he had left her at the door of her apartment , he would ridicule himself An old man with a Pygmalion fantasy . |
| 20 | To lose her now was going to be ten times worse than when she had left her at the Foundling Hospital , and she was making herself ill with worry . |
| 21 | Either by accident or as punishment for his sins , she had left him to the mercy of the Bogeyman . |
| 22 | The conversation with Rosie had left him with the impression Rain was carrying the keys , and her own deliberately misleading answer that evening had confirmed it . |
| 23 | Anyway I was back in the office when I suddenly felt hot and faint … you see I had left him on the island , with three lanes still to cross . |
| 24 | And of course that was why Hardy had taken against him , why he had left him on the sidelines any time he picked a team for some action , why he had now given him a job that he knew anyone else in the unit would have balked at . |
| 25 | It was funny he should have remembered the row that week-end , when Patricia had left him in the cinema , and the per … pervert had touched his leg , because that was when all this had really started . |
| 26 | No trace was found of the men who had left him in the yard . |
| 27 | The thief had leapt into the Sierra after Janet had left it with the engine running . |
| 28 | What if Ben had left it with the man in Lancaster ? |
| 29 | In both cases the creditor had left it to the debtor husband to deal with the surety , his wife , and had done nothing to satisfy itself that she understood what she was doing or to protect her from abuse by the debtor of the influence and reliance that would be likely to be present . |
| 30 | The circumstance that the employer had left it to the contractor to provide the requisite third party security would not , without more , prevent the employer from enforcing the security . |