Example sentences of "had left him [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Either by accident or as punishment for his sins , she had left him to the mercy of the Bogeyman .
2 A 13-month-old London boy drowned when he fell off a ‘ topple-proof ’ bath chair while his mother had left him for a few moments .
3 His childhood exposure to life in the streets of a western town , still so new that most of the people who had founded it were still alive , had left him with no illusions about people or their motives , and it was always for the motive behind the question that he looked .
4 It had left him with a feeling of self-satisfaction , a sense of having done something instead of standing helplessly in the shadows , aching with humiliation and guilty knowledge .
5 Kurt Nicoll ignored medical advice not to ride after a practice crash on the factory KTM had left him with a rib injury .
6 Like Paul , he had trained for the law in youth , and it had left him with a certain accuracy .
7 Mario described himself to me as a hungry kid , adding that maybe those early experiences had left him with a permanent sense of insecurity .
8 It had left him with a pronounced limp in his left leg .
9 ‘ Simon 's childhood had left him with a feeling of inadequacy and a strong envious streak , which meant he found it difficult to live with the idea of an associate being better than him .
10 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 .
11 Griffin 's first round victory had left him with an eye fully closed which eventually opened slightly before last night 's win against Franke .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 She had left him in no doubt about her reaction to his overtures .
15 By the time the lift had stopped at her floor , however , Fabia had left him in no doubt that she was not overjoyed by his nerve .
16 The elation , the excitement and the wonderful afterglow of making love to her had left him in a mood of carefree tenderness .
17 No trace was found of the men who had left him in the yard .
18 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 .
19 Urban 's pro-French foreign policy during the Thirty Years War had left him in an exposed position when Richelieu joined forces with Protestant Sweden to thwart the restoration of Catholicism in Germany .
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