Example sentences of "[vb past] left him " in BNC.
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| 31 | After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him . |
| 32 | A week before the overdose his wife Mary had left him and taken their two children with her . |
| 33 | Maybe he needed women , and his wife had left him , the bitch . |
| 34 | His friends had left him to die . |
| 35 | Then calmly , in a voice that was his own , he said that the god had left him . |
| 36 | Forster was laying where they had left him , except the raw area of his face had turned into a slimy mess . |
| 37 | William Bird tried to look bland and encouraging as the woman leaned across the desk towards him , but an onslaught of speculation and comment from the Leicester ladies had left him feeling somewhat shell-shocked . |
| 38 | The hair that God had left him was sparse , dry and vertical , as if he brushed it forward every morning . |
| 39 | The interview had left him with two clear intentions more firmly fixed than ever in his mind . |
| 40 | They had liked each other , got on with remarkably little rancour and he had been genuinely upset , if principally in his pride , when she had left him . |
| 41 | Bad weather during the third round had left him with three holes to complete early the next morning . |
| 42 | ‘ Beardsley had not been a regular under Kenny Dalglish and even Graeme Souness had left him out . |
| 43 | Like Paul , he had trained for the law in youth , and it had left him with a certain accuracy . |
| 44 | She made up to him for the son he had never had , the wife who had left him , even the dull Selene , who would never come to anything . |
| 45 | Mario described himself to me as a hungry kid , adding that maybe those early experiences had left him with a permanent sense of insecurity . |
| 46 | Adam only wished Uncle Hilbert had left him Wyvis Hall and then there would have been no Ecalpemos , no Zosie , and no deaths . |
| 47 | She 'd surely have told me if a rich relative had left him somethin' — I 'm sure she would . |
| 48 | His childhood exposure to life in the streets of a western town , still so new that most of the people who had founded it were still alive , had left him with no illusions about people or their motives , and it was always for the motive behind the question that he looked . |
| 49 | GULF War hero Paul Butler , who saw two pals killed in the American ‘ friendly fire ’ attack , went berserk when he heard his wife had left him for another man . |
| 50 | The British record signing , given a rousing reception by Saints ' fans before kick off , admitted afterwards that Monkou had left him feeling the pressure of a marked man . |
| 51 | All this focus on time gave him a sense of peace , and he died an hour after the worker had left him . |
| 52 | His mother Christine had left him playing with toys at the surgery while she had an injection . |
| 53 | But by then his wife had left him and he had lost his factory job . |
| 54 | He reappeared in the following year 's repeat win over Aberavon , but by the time Swansea were beaten in 1976 his knee had left him idle again . |
| 55 | I was so relieved to see the fear had left him that I would not have minded had he asked me to get into bed with him . |
| 56 | Ultimately the scrupulous , strait-laced upbringing had left him distrusting the strictures of rigid minds . |
| 57 | It had left him alone to think about the problems he had to face and how he would overcome them . |
| 58 | Myeloski had left him and Louise Taylor at the hotel entrance after the drive from Pushkin . |
| 59 | No trace was found of the men who had left him in the yard . |
| 60 | Gentle began to follow , but the fall had left him aching in every joint , and he knew the chase was lost before he 'd hobbled three yards . |