Example sentences of "left [pers pn] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The effort to face up to the fact and its consequences demanded all the will-power I could muster , and left me in a mental turmoil .
2 When I had the baby , Stephen , the screws left me in the outside hospital but they took my clothes .
3 He left them in a panelled solar beyond the hall , and went to inform his master that he had unexpected guests ; and no more than five minutes later the door of the room opened upon the lord of half Leicestershire , a good slice of Warwickshire and Northampton , and a large honour in Normandy brought to him by his marriage with the heiress of Breteuil .
4 ‘ Why do you think your father left them in the first place ? ’
5 This left them in the ludicrous position of having to claim that , out of loyalty to their sovereign lady , they were embattled against their sovereign lady 's mother .
6 Politically , the Danzig Poles and Kaszubians were leaderless and the departure of the gentry left them in the indifferent care of a German Catholic hierarchy .
7 On Junction Buttress , Malc Taylor put All my Pegs in one Basket and then left them in the obvious overhanging crack , which is now E7 6c .
8 I left them in the self-induced bedlam of a Harvey Nichols changing room , and promised to meet them later at the flat to examine our spoils , then went to meet Dee .
9 Yeah , after the devastation we left you in the other day
10 After several hours Matron managed to calm him down but he left her in a terrible mood .
11 Once inside he left her in a dim , dingy room where she sat with her bundle and the firm belief that the cruel joke would soon be over and she 'd be taken back to her ward .
12 No man had ever looked at her like that in her life , and his eyes left her in no uncertain terms as to what he was thinking .
13 The move came after his parents Allan and Barbara won a court ruling allowing medical staff to switch off the life support systems he had relied on since the tragic injury that left him in a persistent vegetative state .
14 The sublime memory of that first descent into the moist , mossy darkness of the jungle earlier in the day blazed again suddenly in his mind 's eye for a moment , but then his numbness left him in a furious rush and a piercing surge of purity and sweetness flashed through the rank darkness of the hut .
15 It left him in a jealous rage and he wrongly accused his 47-year-old wife of having an affair .
16 To his increasing embarrassment , Montrose found himself bombarded with solicitations from three directions , which left him in an impossible situation .
17 Sam Somerville 's rental car had been where she left it in the short-stay carpark at Heathrow .
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