Example sentences of "[vb past] left him " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was sitting where we 'd left him beside an empty biscuit tin . |
| 2 | It was about a wife who 'd cheated on her husband , she 'd left him for his best friend , and now the man was on the road trying to mend his broken heart . |
| 3 | No , she 'd left him a reassuring note . |
| 4 | He wished they 'd left him the radio mast , so that he could at least listen to some music and pick up the news . |
| 5 | " He 'd be more dignified if you 'd left him uncovered . |
| 6 | On a Thursday there was invariably some instruction about the lunch she 'd left him , since Thursday was her day for doing her charity with the elderly . |
| 7 | It had echoed after she 'd left him , as she 'd turned into the archway in the wall and passed through the shrubbery of azaleas and magnolias and tree mallows , as she 'd passed through the drawing-room and the hall . |
| 8 | Well she went she 'd left him with their baggages on the seat at the front of the shop |
| 9 | Had left him , that had loved him well . |
| 10 | Wexford looked at the memo Burden had left him before departing for Deptford : |
| 11 | He knew before the match that his marathons with Chris Walker and Paul Carter in the quarter and semi-finals had left him low on gas . |
| 12 | He died in Frith Street , at one of various lodgings after his second wife had left him . |
| 13 | The third duke , whose wife had left him , set up a lady friend here ; and what more perfect house could exist for romantic visitations ? |
| 14 | His Mum had left him ham and salad in the kitchen . |
| 15 | His Mum had left him a note on the kitchen table . |
| 16 | Doyle and the Woman had left him in silence , watching him but not talking . |
| 17 | When I had left him for Bath , he had said , sadly , seeing me off at Salamanca station : ‘ I should have come with you when your father died . |
| 18 | She had left him , just as she so often threatened to do . |
| 19 | Either by accident or as punishment for his sins , she had left him to the mercy of the Bogeyman . |
| 20 | It had left him with a feeling of self-satisfaction , a sense of having done something instead of standing helplessly in the shadows , aching with humiliation and guilty knowledge . |
| 21 | The illness and its treatment had left him bald and so weak that he could hardly stand , but throughout the spring and summer he gradually regained his fitness . |
| 22 | He ate in the canteen , spoke with some of the robots , wandered into the sitting room where Roirbak had left him the stack of films , rejected every one as boring , and decided to do a little exploring . |
| 23 | He had left him asleep in the cottage , an act of merry . |
| 24 | Kurt Nicoll ignored medical advice not to ride after a practice crash on the factory KTM had left him with a rib injury . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In reply to yet another question from the impromptu baby-sitter , he said that he did not know where his wife was , but he did believe that poor Maria had left him . |
| 27 | In the sacristy , long after a sombre Father Donnelly had left him , Father Paddy O'Neil , still in his new vestments , sat in a chair by the window as the afternoon shadows lengthened . |
| 28 | Carrying through life a heavy sense that early separation from Ottery had left him no better than an orphan , Coleridge took comfort in believing that his own grandfather had been an orphan before him , a nameless , parentless child , discovered beneath a Devon sky . |
| 29 | The opportunity to do so did not arise until Racedown was offered to them six years later , by which time Wordsworth could contemplate a life whose course , since his Norfolk visit , had done much to shape his political and poetic character , and had left him with more than a little to repent . |
| 30 | On the day of the overdose Charles and Ann had a row before he went to work , and later Charles came home to find his wife had left him . |