Example sentences of "[vb past] left [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . ’ |
2 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
3 | We wondered what stupid idiot had left them on the Tube . ’ |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | He had left it on the passenger seat , where it lay , legs in the air , headless rump deep in the upholstery . |
7 | He had n't been in the lodge since Helena Naulls had left it on the death of her husband . |
8 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |