Example sentences of "left [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't collect criticisms , but the worst one I ever had was when they completely left me out of the write-up . |
| 2 | Being in neither carpet nor the RAF left me out of the conversation , until the tea trolley came round . |
| 3 | I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women . |
| 4 | Although the Greens increased their share of the vote from 2.9 to 4.9 per cent , this left them just below the 5 per cent threshold required for representation . |
| 5 | I did not dare risk Pollock and young Duncan Pugh and so I left them firmly on the bench . |
| 6 | Sarah had made a pot of tea and left them together in the overcrowded room . |
| 7 | And er but at er there you 'd got to go for the other two years , and some parents were rather wondering whether that left you late in the queue for a job , because jobs were very difficult . |
| 8 | Jitters knew she was doing two people a favour , because Fat Juanita got depressed when the johnny-passing-throughs left her downstairs in the parlour with her knitting and gave all the custom to Gretchen , Connie Calzone , Margaret Running Deer and the Games Mistress . |
| 9 | For Ellen Musialela , Acting Secretary for the SWAPO Women 's Council , this year it will be 21 years since she left her home in the Caprivi Strip to join SWAPO 's armed struggle for liberation . |
| 10 | ‘ I left him out of the team in the middle of a winning run and Kevin Campbell came in and did well . |
| 11 | Outside-half Didier Camberabero , not an immaculate hair out of place , converted 11 of those tries by way of reminding France , who left him out of the Five Nations ' side , that he is still a formidable competitor . |
| 12 | England manager Graham Taylor left him out of the European Championship squad last summer and Blackburn pulled put of a £3 million transfer at the 11th hour in August . |
| 13 | He left him out of the match against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin two years ago . |
| 14 | Geoff Cooke left him out of the first international squad gathering on the grounds that Skinner had dropped down a division to play with Blackheath and therefore was obviously not too bothered about his international prospects . |
| 15 | Of large build and possessed of ritual mannerisms when facing the bowling , his technique was founded in the securest of defence , and , although he was a shrewd placer of the ball , it was perhaps his seeming doggedness that left him out of the international reckoning at a time when England possessed several middle-order batsmen of sterling class . |
| 16 | I took him home in triumph and left him overnight in the porch , intending to record his vital statistics before turning him into fish pie . |
| 17 | You could have spoken to him , you could have offered something of yourself , but you left him there in the stinking bloody cold . |
| 18 | yeah , I could n't believe it I mean you go back five years he 'd never done things like that , he erm , missed the most easiest reds and left it right over the pocket and then Stephen Hendry went on and cleared up the whole frame , got a break of over a hundred |
| 19 | She left it right to the end of the evening . |
| 20 | The ladder is broken ; it has rusted through because I left it out in the rain . |
| 21 | ‘ No , but you left it out in the street . ’ |
| 22 | No they did n't turn the taps on , they just left it all round the hall and , and the door frame had been kicked off and all things like this you know ? |