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

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1 ‘ But in any case , you had no right to leave me at that pub all night .
2 Let's say then , I just , I used to have to work on eleven appointments a week because if I had eleven appointments a week , two people would perhaps blow me out , change their minds , two people would rearrange , two people would say no thank you , and another two would say , yes , but I need to do it next month , which might leave me with two sales .
3 Does n't leave me with much time .
4 Maybe they 'll elope to Gretna Green if they ca n't find a vacant Martello tower , then it will leave me with more time for my Roman friend and dear Boudicca not to mention Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals of which I have perused the first paragraph six times yet can not seem to recall it to mind .
5 ‘ If I pose for a photograph will you all go away and leave me to some peace and quiet ? ’
6 He — he would n't leave me in meaningless dark forever .
7 Why did she leave me like that ?
8 And then Lucy said , ‘ Why did you leave me like that ? ’
9 And … and you ca n't leave me like this , with nothing …
10 Please do n't leave me like this .
11 ‘ You have left me with one feeling-hate … and with one wish — to destroy your happiness .
12 On another occasion , having been introduced to a pop personality at a cocktail party , his name — it was then not as celebrated outside his own world as it is now had left me within five seconds .
13 Several years of research into our love of meat has left me in little doubt that most of us nowadays would prefer not to face up to the carnal origins of our flesh foods .
14 It had left me in White Face 's power .
15 Leave me under this stone .
16 I suspect that in the excitement of going on board I hardly realized she was leaving me for good .
17 However I learned from Daphne 's friend that my errant partner was to be discharged on 20 February 1919 , leaving me with little or no time to balance the books .
18 We both wobbled then , through hours of stones and velvet dusk to the hut , where Sal went straight to bed , leaving me with two soups , two teas and a bottle of wine to deal with .
19 they expect me to pay another three hundred pounds a month out of seven hundred and twenty pounds net income , leaving me with twenty pounds a month to live on .
20 It takes a long time to reach Dynjandi , but the weather improves as the day wears on , leaving me with wonderful views across the Arnarfjörđ3ur , its far peaks wreathed in clouds .
21 ‘ In here , ’ she said , leaving me to shut the front door , then follow her into the front room .
22 I was pissed off at them leaving me like that because I had hardly any other friends in Leeds .
23 She never left me at all !
24 I had a real ambition to ride round Badminton , but had a terrible fall which left me with two broken legs before I could do that .
25 He claimed one Bf109 shot down , but recorded of his own aircraft in his logbook : ‘ Left me with one strand of rudder wire . ’
26 It was worthwhile , though — not only did he make me feel young and raunchy again , he left me with enough self-esteem to believe in my capabilities as a single mother . ’
27 That left me with dozens of portly gentlemen in blue who spent the rest of the night eating my shortbread , drinking my coffee and asking me if I knew Terry Wogan .
28 Dad patted me on the head and Mum gives me this little kiss on the cheek and then they went off and left me with this old woman .
29 ‘ When she left me for one of the other guys in the team , somebody I 'd kind of thought of as a friend … well , ’ he went on hurriedly , ‘ I was n't surprised she 'd gone .
30 ‘ I thought you left me for other women . ’
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