Example sentences of "left [pers pn] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I would catch her looking at me with such intensity of feeling that my breath left me for a moment . |
| 2 | She was so proud of herself for getting that out , grinning wildly at the other woman , that Ruth could n't subject her to more and left them for the tennis courts while they unpacked the dusty Seat that seemed to be packed to the gunnels with baskets of clothes and packages . |
| 3 | He left her for a time to find prey and brought back a hare from the moorland tops , tearing it up and gently feeding her with parts of it . |
| 4 | Her husband left her for a job in the Arabian Gulf one year ago , and apart from regular maintenance , neither she nor the children have heard from him since . |
| 5 | A stunning young woman whose husband left her for a woman twenty years older than himself , never forgave him for it . |
| 6 | So erm , anyway I went back in to him , I kept going up and down , I left him for a while , but he does n't normally cry like that |
| 7 | He pushed his bicycle up the hill from Wheatley station in the company of another new student who had a strangely similar background : of nonconformist origins , with his father an official of a nonconformist Church ; a young man who postponed his own confirmation into the Church of England because his parents might be hurt ; and who swung at the university from his very Protestant background into a sense of the devotional stature in Anglo-Catholicism , and into convictions which never left him for the rest of his life ; a graduate of Balliol College , by name Austin Farrer . |
| 8 | Unexpected , this affected him strongly , indeed left him for the moment in a strange turmoil emotionally . |
| 9 | So I left it for a while , and I thought I will phone her and find out . |
| 10 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |