Example sentences of "[vb past] left [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | who 'd left her in the lurch |
| 4 | We 'd left her in the car actually . |
| 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 | So somebody had to tell him he 'd left them at the |
| 7 | He 'd left them in the refrigerator factory … ? |
| 8 | He 'd left them in the Courtesy Cleaners : they 'd be ready in time for Easter Saturday . |
| 9 | She 'd left them in the caravan , and he just see the keys |
| 10 | If we 'd left it to the day we 'd have been sunk ! |
| 11 | I 'd left it to the end of the meal before I said anything about being arrested . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 14 | We wondered what stupid idiot had left them on the Tube . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And it came to him , with a cold steely horror chilling the bloodstream as if from a lethal injection — he had left them in the stolen mini . |
| 17 | He stretched and looked about him , feeling good , noticing his furs where he had left them in the corner of the room . |
| 18 | Their mother had left them in the vehicle while she put a birthday card through a neighbour 's letterbox . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had left me with the one who would become the most famous . |
| 21 | and er building trade work , both of these things had left me with the qualifications for be abl be able to do it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Often , after he had left her at the door of her apartment , he would ridicule himself An old man with a Pygmalion fantasy . |
| 24 | Either by accident or as punishment for his sins , she had left him to the mercy of the Bogeyman . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | No trace was found of the men who had left him in the yard . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The thief had leapt into the Sierra after Janet had left it with the engine running . |