Example sentences of "[coord] left [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian came with us part of the way , so we took two cars and left ours at the finishing point and Ian 's at the entrance to the track . |
| 2 | The assistant recorder refused to quash the two counts and left them to the jury on the basis that the services that the appellant did provide , in the ordinary meaning of the words , amounted to employment . |
| 3 | She was so proud of herself for getting that out , grinning wildly at the other woman , that Ruth could n't subject her to more and left them for the tennis courts while they unpacked the dusty Seat that seemed to be packed to the gunnels with baskets of clothes and packages . |
| 4 | Nellie had packed the two children 's bags and left them at the door . |
| 5 | Florence Ames took off her old shoes and left them on the step . |
| 6 | Two days before the 1986 meeting I took my starting blocks home to my flat and left them on the kitchen floor . |
| 7 | He took limes from his pyjama pockets and left them on the blankets . |
| 8 | She pushed them down and left them on the floor . |
| 9 | Southwards the long arms of Isambard himself were stretched to receive them ; the fire died on their heels after that brief flare , and left them on the points of English swords . |
| 10 | and left them in the darkness of the vaults . |
| 11 | On that last night they finished packing their bundles , tied them securely and left them in the kitchen ready for the morning . |
| 12 | He gathered six double sheets from the drenched berths , folded them in half and left them by the companionway . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've got to lie here for the next twelve hours without moving with an ice-pack over half my face because you walked out and left me to the mercy of a predatory pit-popsy ! ’ |
| 14 | Look at that time my dad did that lady over there and left me on the phone and told me to stay there and I was like that . |
| 15 | One day he took me aside and left me with the designer , a nervous girl who always wore black . |
| 16 | She got what she wanted and left me with the rough end of the stick … . |
| 17 | ‘ They trussed me up in a skip and left me under the showers . |
| 18 | In total batting command early in the tour , Gooch had his third successive single-figure score when one which angled in through the air and left him off the pitch induced a nick that Parore tossed high . |
| 19 | They then bundled him out of the car and left him on the road . |
| 20 | She kissed her father and left him on the edge of his seat . |
| 21 | I remember when Mike was a baby and I went home with my shopping and left him at the check-out in Sainsbury 's . |
| 22 | He cleared the breakfast things and left him with the small addressed postcard that he had been provided with to write a message on for his mother . |
| 23 | Then on the Monday morning Law saw Salisbury and left him with the impression that Curzon could not be ‘ passed over ’ . |
| 24 | You went to your fucking soup and your fucking swill and left him in the night . |
| 25 | We have closed our ears to his cries and left him in the shadows while we walked in the light . ’ |
| 26 | When PC Stennett was sent to investigate he searched Hagans , but he found nothing and left him in the car park . |
| 27 | In her child 's understanding it seemed that it was her own liberation that was the cause of the celebration , and the arrival of the princess , the flags which appeared on all the buildings and the succession of functions for which her mother and Denzil put on their beautiful evening clothes and left her with the maid . |
| 28 | Ruth Michaelis felt betrayed from the time her mother brought her over to England and left her with the Reverend Stead and his family . |
| 29 | She said that she had ‘ accidentally brushed against one of the four girls who were standing on the pavement ’ , whereupon ‘ all four caught hold of her , and beat her in a most savage manner , using fearful language ’ and left her on the pound bleeding profusely from the nose and mouth . |
| 30 | He and Fonda retired to their trailer , smoked some marijuana and then came out and told the crowd of local youths that they should imagine that the two of them had just arrived in town , and , on the way , they had picked up a local girl of fifteen , and raped and left her in the bushes . |