Example sentences of "leave him [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The lovely Polish mezzo Stefania Toczyska , who had three arias of her own , as well as joining Carreras in duets from Cavalleria Rusticana , Il Trovatore and Carmen , was also permitted a single encore before she quietly disappeared to leave him in sole charge .
2 but yesterday morn he was , yesterday morning he started crying did n't he , I did n't leave him for any length of time
3 She would not , could not leave him for this boy !
4 The 28-year-old Briton knows a second defeat could leave him in desperate trouble against the man rated by many as the best player in the chess history .
5 We ca n't leave him in British hands . ’
6 ‘ No , we would n't leave him in some Beirut jail .
7 GULF War hero Paul Butler , who saw two pals killed in the American ‘ friendly fire ’ attack , went berserk when he heard his wife had left him for another man .
8 Bad weather during the third round had left him with three holes to complete early the next morning .
9 Years of experience have left him with nagging doubts about the seemingly perfect customers .
10 Has it left him with any impairments ?
11 The morning 's adventure had apparently left him in hot water with the lady of the moment .
12 Two candidates had withdrawn from the contest , leaving him as sole contender .
13 To give a man great joy , only to snatch it away , leaving him in great despair .
14 In the end , I could only escape by galloping off , leaving him in full flow , and diving into a shop .
15 Her indulgence left him without any need .
16 It left him with two alternatives .
17 Money procured for Minton the kind of men he needed , but his inability to possess them left him with insatiable desire , to such an extent that his relentless pursuit of young men began to intrude into everything he did .
18 Greenidge and Lloyd top-scored as West Indies declared at 251 for 9 , and then Holding , Roberts and Holder , restricted MCC to 197 , only Gilliat , the captain , having a substantial knock , and Amiss ducking into a bouncer which left him with four stitches in his scalp .
19 In the end , however , the Ukrainian decision to vote for full independence left him with little alternative but to withdraw from the USSR and in effect bring about its demise ( see pp. 179–85 ) .
20 A DARLINGTON man was yesterday recovering in hospital after a Good Friday attack which left him with broken bones in his face .
21 ‘ Anyway , I was saying about the Glyrms : Maurice lost his wife when she was no more'n a girl ; Matthew 's missus walked out an' left him with three children .
22 Tuesday 's mortar bomb blast left him with three chunks of shrapnel in his abdomen .
23 Well Sir Marquess across the road it was his first wife who died of a brain tumour and left him with three daughters , as we know .
24 That left him with severe deafness .
25 His observation of the way in which after 1942 Churchill took on the role of Roosevelt 's faithful second left him with long-lasting suspicions of Britain 's priorities .
26 He spoke bitterly of the way she left him for another man , a student , when she was 16 then humiliated him by giving intimate details of their affair to the press .
27 Terry Melchett , the supermarket manager , whose wife left him for another woman , gave me a hard shove in the small of the back .
28 Miguel was his usual self and his efficiency left him in fifth place .
29 Cottrell 's 82 left him in fifth place , along with Tim Paterson of Letherhead , with his Cheshire captain Phil Bailey of Caldy and another Cheshire player Gareth Bradley of Bramhall in a group on 302 .
30 He felt it would soon be the moment to make a move , and her behaviour left him in little doubt as to what sort of move it should be .
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