Example sentences of "[verb] [been] left [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again it has been left to a recession to catch out those who overstretched themselves in the boom years . |
| 2 | Dodie Penalosa from the Philippines , who challenges Dave McAuley for the International Boxing Federation 's flyweight title at Wembley Arena tonight , suffered from poliomyelitis when he was a child and has been left with a weak left leg and restricted mobility . |
| 3 | A BRIDE-to-be has been left without a wedding cake because the bakery she ordered it from went into receivership . |
| 4 | It is thanks to the emigres that in America and Europe ballet has been on the move all century ; in Russia itself , it has been left in a museum . |
| 5 | As a result , the path has been left in a half-finished state . |
| 6 | Possibly , Haines 's public ‘ unveiling ’ should have been left for a while as he felt unable at this early stage to give firm views on major issues , such as racing 's finances and Jockey Club justice . |
| 7 | John Lewis died at the beginning of November 1761 , and Esther Lewis appears to have been left without a home . |
| 8 | A tourist probably dropped it , I thought , but when I looked closer there were more of them , far too many to have been left by a traveller . |
| 9 | It had been left to a nephew of Lucy Trigg 's , also a naval man , who put it in the hands of a London estate agent to sell for him whilst he was abroad . |
| 10 | She had been left outside a great many pubs on warm summer evenings while models and some younger aspiring painters had occasionally checked to see if she was still there . |
| 11 | The girl had been left without a chaperon and was determined to have a good time with some boys . |
| 12 | Although Gundovald received open support from men who had fallen out with Guntram , or who had been left without a patron at Chilperic 's death , Theodore of Marseilles claimed that he had been ordered to receive Gundovald by Childebert 's magnates . |
| 13 | After £2,067 had been handed over to the District , branches had been left with a net income of £1,492 , just one pound less than the £1,493 spent on publicity , room rents and other local organisation and administration . |
| 14 | Although the initial injury he had received had healed in a relatively short period of time , he had been left with a pain in his left knee ; this was aggravated whenever he put pressure on the joint concerned , as in walking or even just standing . |
| 15 | ‘ It had been left with a blue towel wrapped around its waist and legs but was otherwise uncovered . |
| 16 | The hearing was told the child had been left with a 14-year-old baby-sitter . |
| 17 | Katherine sat before the fire , and began sorting through the morning 's post , which had been left on a small silver tray on the side-table beside her chair . |
| 18 | The first was simply a codeword one of his paid agents had stumbled upon : a single Mandarin character , the indentation of which had been left on a notepad Jan Mach had discarded . |
| 19 | The blue cylinder with a red label had been left on a plant stall in Park Rise , Great Ayton , to collect money for the Yorkshire Cancer Fund . |
| 20 | Special Branch officers and British Transport police were alerted after a train driver reported that a battered suitcase had been left on a train from Darlington . |
| 21 | Quite how he was supposed to stand up for himself when he was tied up in a wicker laundry basket which had been left under a running shower was another matter . |
| 22 | The reactor itself was shut down in nineteen ninety , but gas bottles like this had been left inside a secure unit called a glove box , and they were n't labelled . |
| 23 | The bomb had been left in a litter bin alongside the bank in the street close to the Haymarket . |
| 24 | So I 've been left with a load of tapes , batteries . |
| 25 | The Neath-born slow left-arm bowler is doing a sound job for Gloucestershire ; but Glamorgan have been left without a bowler of that kind , though ex-Kent spinner Mark Dobson came on a trial period . |
| 26 | Fifteen children have been left without a parent after loyalist terrorists murdered four people this week . |
| 27 | Remnants of the colliery buildings have been left as a reminder of the coal mining industry — Kinneil colliery closed as recently as 1981 . |
| 28 | ‘ Over the years variation in discounts and other terms have arisen with various wholesalers , and we have been left with a hotchpotch of trading terms . |
| 29 | Those who have survived this horrible , horrible illness , in fact , have often lost vital organs , have been left with a legacy that will last for their lives . |
| 30 | I have several friends and relatives who are in that position , two who have been left by a husband and it 's absolutely not ideal for a child but compensation can be made by a loving relationship with extended family . |