Example sentences of "left [pron] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we 'd blown the network because of the hostages we would have left ourselves blind in the middle of a minefield . |
| 2 | The last time he 'd seen her she 'd been drunk , they 'd had a fight , he 'd left her sprawling on the carpet . |
| 3 | By running for deputy , he has left himself open to the accusation that he has no hope of becoming leader . |
| 4 | ‘ Marius wrote a letter to his son last November — this is a copy of it — complaining in humble terms about how he 'd left himself short by the gift and not taken inflation into account , and would Nigel let him have a small income from various shares and properties ? |
| 5 | The journey from Philadelphia was a fraught one , Boyd says , principally because Johnson — an uncompromisingly direct ladies ' man whose prolonged career as a plongeur had left him unused to the excitements of the open road — offered robust salutations to every woman pedestrian they passed en route . |
| 6 | He had left him asleep in the cottage , an act of merry . |
| 7 | But the accusations of shoplifting completely devastated the player and his family and have left him bitter about the way Scottish newspapers pursue the private lives of football 's master race . |