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 . |