Example sentences of "left [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Of course , I 've I 've left him in the charge of of not I have n't asked Paul to take him under his wing over the weekend , but I 've left Neil a list of things that I would like done . |
| 32 | Her common-law husband ( who was never traced ) having left her with the ring from her finger , she went to several alehouses carrying her child and drank 8 glasses of spirits in a fit of depression . |
| 33 | When he 'd left her at the entrance to Newcastle Place the day Pa died she 'd ached with disappointment that she might never see him again . |
| 34 | To lose her now was going to be ten times worse than when she had left her at the Foundling Hospital , and she was making herself ill with worry . |
| 35 | Often , after he had left her at the door of her apartment , he would ridicule himself An old man with a Pygmalion fantasy . |
| 36 | He 'd left her at the inn without so much as a word , and here he was , calmly indulging his hobby while she 'd had to trek after him . |
| 37 | who 'd left her in the lurch |
| 38 | She could n't have left her in the house . |
| 39 | The dual Oaks runner-up is not at her best on soft ground and trainer Michael Kauntze has left her in the Prix Vermeille at Longchamp on Sunday . |
| 40 | he 's left her in the car . |
| 41 | We 'd left her in the car actually . |
| 42 | ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished . |
| 43 | If we 'd left it to the day we 'd have been sunk ! |
| 44 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , where a creditor knew that security was being taken for the benefit of a debtor from a surety who was likely to be influenced by and to have some degree of reliance on the debtor , the creditor should seek to ensure that unfair advantage was not taken of the surety ; that , if the creditor failed to do so and the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by the debtor 's undue influence or material misrepresentation or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction , the security would be unenforceable ; that the bank knew that the defendants were husband and wife and that the wife was being asked to provide security for the husband 's business and was likely to rely on his judgment , and they should have ensured that she understood the nature and effect of the document which she was asked to sign ; and that , since the bank had failed to do so and had left it to the husband to explain the transaction , so that as a result of the husband 's misrepresentation the wife entered into the charge on the misunderstanding that her liability was limited to £60,000 , they could not enforce the charge against the wife save to the extent of £60,000 ( post , pp. 620C–G , 622F — 623C , D–F , 635G — 636F ) . |
| 45 | And it may be that the extent to which the bank has left it to the husband to procure the wife 's consent and to explain the transaction to her will be a critical feature of the case . |
| 46 | The circumstance that the employer had left it to the contractor to provide the requisite third party security would not , without more , prevent the employer from enforcing the security . |
| 47 | In both cases the creditor had left it to the debtor husband to deal with the surety , his wife , and had done nothing to satisfy itself that she understood what she was doing or to protect her from abuse by the debtor of the influence and reliance that would be likely to be present . |
| 48 | In relation to the third charge , it was likewise clear that the bank could never have been said ‘ to have left it to the husband to obtain the signature of the wife ’ on the charge documents . |
| 49 | I 'd left it to the end of the meal before I said anything about being arrested . |
| 50 | His own fault , he should have left it to the river police who had more experience of that sort of thing , but he had felt responsible . |
| 51 | And you had best be grateful to me , for if you had left it to the little men of law he could buy better and shiftier than you , and you would never have got your money at all . ’ |
| 52 | The top management did n't bother about that , they know left it to the local you see . |
| 53 | The thief had leapt into the Sierra after Janet had left it with the engine running . |
| 54 | What if Ben had left it with the man in Lancaster ? |
| 55 | Now , has he not left it with the Parish Council ? |
| 56 | He had left it on the passenger seat , where it lay , legs in the air , headless rump deep in the upholstery . |
| 57 | Here 's money for my meat ; I would have left it on the board , so soon As I had made my meal ; and parted With prayers for the provider |
| 58 | In washing her hands after breakfast she had taken off her wedding ring and must have left it on the side of the basin . |
| 59 | He had n't been in the lodge since Helena Naulls had left it on the death of her husband . |
| 60 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |