Example sentences of "left it [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The structure has suffered little at the hand of man , or from the lapse of time , so that without much imagination it is possible to picture it as the builders left it about the year 1410 . |
| 2 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |
| 3 | However , when I stripped the pump off the block , cleaned it and left it on the workbench , I noticed it had leaked a small amount of oil from a 1.5mm hole located near the back underside of the pump . |
| 4 | I wrote a note to Leon , left it on the hall table for him to find when he came down at God knows what time , and went into breakfast . |
| 5 | ‘ The dear man knows that I collect swans , ’ she explained to Merrill and Richard , ‘ and he left it on the hall table with my name on a label around its neck . |
| 6 | Rose left it on the coffee table by her husband 's chair , and when he had had his usual mixed fry-up and was preparing to have his snooze , his eye caught it as it lay there . |
| 7 | Your dustbin will be returned near to where you left it , or if possible to a convenient point just inside your gate if you left it on the pavement . |
| 8 | He recapped the whisky bottle and left it on the table . |
| 9 | ‘ Nothing ; I 've already said — I stopped by because Adam asked me to copy a disk for him , and then I looked for my calculator — I left it on the table the other day . ’ |
| 10 | Shoppers fled after a man carried the device into the post office in Castle Street and left it on the counter . |
| 11 | ‘ Pounds , ’ I replied as I wrote out my name and address on the back of the particulars and left it on the counter . |
| 12 | Useful clinical pointers are the unavailability for various reasons of the patient 's urine tests — lost book , came out in a hurry , left it on the bus — occurring with each clinic visit , and an enquiry as to when the patient last had something to eat . |
| 13 | left it on the radiator |
| 14 | And I left it on the side instead of leaving it in the grill . |
| 15 | Once Keith left it at the home of some guy he 'd had a one night stand with , and when he went back to get it he was so embarrassed he had sex with the guy again , which was a mistake for both of them . |
| 16 | But he either could n't or would n't understand , and he left it at the back . |
| 17 | Theories of personal development , or of the historical and sociological development of humanity , which ignore it or dispense with it , make psychoanalytic theory less advanced than it was when Freud left it at the end of his life . |
| 18 | You , you ju just left it to the midwife . |
| 19 | His concern was solely with effectiveness rather than style ; he rarely spoke with more than brief notes and left it to the occasion to furnish the words . |
| 20 | Having secured Theodora 's obedience , however , he left it to the Archdeacon to make his wishes clear . |
| 21 | And left it to the butler ? |
| 22 | He did not label the boxes to go to particular destinations but left it to the rail company to allot the appropriate number of boxes to the various destinations . |
| 23 | ‘ all had been agreed between the husband and the manager on the Friday , and … the manager left it to the husband to persuade the wife to come to the bank on the Monday to execute the charge and sign the guarantee . |
| 24 | and then commented [ 1989 ] 1 F.L.R. 356 , 367G : ‘ Clearly the manager , acting for the bank , left it to the husband to obtain the presence of the wife at the bank to execute or sign the charge . ’ |
| 25 | The inference which is really overwhelming is that all had been agreed between the husband and [ Bunn ] on the Friday , and that [ Bunn ] left it to the husband to persuade the wife to come to the bank on the Monday to execute the charge and sign the guarantee . |
| 26 | In the case of two of the charges , the court held that , Mrs. Aboody having come to the bank herself to execute the charges , it could not be said that the bank left it to the husband to obtain the wife 's signature . |
| 27 | In this regard I am happy to accept the phrase ‘ left it to the son to obtain the signatures of his parents . ’ |
| 28 | where it uses in relation to the previous authorities the words ‘ the principal debtor acted as the agent of the creditor in obtaining a security ’ to relate to any formal contractual agency or agency by ostensible authority but was rather another way of saying ‘ they left it to the debtor to obtain the execution of the necessary documents . ’ |
| 29 | Manners , defending his actions , said that the Select Committee left it to the executive Government to select the style and the architects , and he had only acted accordingly . |
| 30 | This dear woman brought the clean washing in a black bag to church and left it in the vestibule . |