Example sentences of "left it [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything was the same as it had been when he left it to go to the club the night before last . |
| 2 | He drove the statutory Volvo estate , but left it parked outside the two-car garage beside his wife 's Honda hatchback and his son 's Kawasaki motorcycle . |
| 3 | I had no intention of taking the Transit up West — I 'd had enough trouble round the launderette , which doubles as a common room for the junior branch of the Hackney National Front — so I left it parked outside the front door in exactly the spot where Frank and Salome usually plug in the nightlight for their VW Golf . |
| 4 | Characteristically she left it to enlist as a section officer in the photographic intelligence unit of the Women 's Auxiliary Air Force ( 1942–5 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ Shit , ’ he said to the empty room , and then left it to chew on the idea . |
| 6 | ‘ No , no , what they did was attach a slow fuse to the gunpowder and left it coiled under the bed . ’ |
| 7 | His nurse had brought the paper back from her lunch break and left it lying on the low coffee table during his appointments with his two previous patients . |
| 8 | He left it lying on the ground and you thought no one was about . |
| 9 | I filled the plastic detergent-bottle and primed the lighter , left it lying on the top of the bank most of the rabbit holes were in , then went back to the first of the blocked-up holes and lit the fuse with my disposable cigarette-lighter . |
| 10 | I took a big bite , put it back on the table and left it to rot throughout the night . |
| 11 | He got off the bike at the bridge and left it propped against the suspension cables , then walked to the middle of the swaying bridge , where the gate is . |
| 12 | When Not-Flaubert spotted his name on the piece of cardboard I was holding , he simply stopped pushing the trolley , left it standing among the shoving airport crowd and walked towards Jeeta and his wife-to-be , Jamila . |