Example sentences of "[conj] left [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had tough parents to match , but an elder sister Gloria of such melting tenderness and charm that left one confounded by the biological processes . |
| 2 | He reached out and tugged her into the V of his thighs , dropping his mouth to hers and taking it in a kiss that left her gasping for breath and so shaken she could barely stand . |
| 3 | He pulled her to him , kissing her with a fierce , demanding passion that left her clinging to him . |
| 4 | With various delicate transitions that left me sighing in assent , the film now turned into a gentle parodic love story , the girl civilizing Spunk — teaching him how to dress , eat , speak — and Spunk decivilizing her : teaching her to kick the booze , the pick-ups , the self-destruction , the money ( they go primitive for a while , after Spunk has an urban breakdown . |
| 5 | Sandy shot a 71 , though , and that left him tied for the lead with David Graham , who we played with , of course , for the third round . |
| 6 | Two of the bigger boys from Thorpe Street had once tried to outswing him for a dare , but Barry Lock had turned chicken at the last minute and Valance Fraser , who fancied himself as the cock of the street , had managed only a partial swing that left him dangling by his arms in the dirt . |
| 7 | He reviewed the massed ranks of the uniformed SA and SS on the Langemarkt and made violently anti-Polish speeches from the Artushof and from the Zoppot Cure-House — speeches that left what remained of the opposition staggered at his vehemence and fearful of the consequences . |
| 8 | He 'd gone with one once , after a party , back to a flat with a friend of Dave 's , who 'd laughed at him and had eyes that made him feel he was being drawn into something he could n't stop , and when she shed her clothes and left them discarded on the floor he 'd stared , open-mouthed , aware of the noise inside his head , something to do with what he 'd drunk , he could still hear the music , and was aware too of the smell of some cologne that merged with hairspray and covered something that he did not want to know about , the dirt and dust of the room and the female odours that half-attracted and repelled him . |
| 9 | In an ugly incident in November , armed raiders forced staff at the Athena/Claude Gill Bargain Bookshop on Oxford Street , London , to hand over at gunpoint around £4,500 from the safe and left them locked in the basement with tape over their mouths . |
| 10 | Then , quickly she opened the door and went out and left them standing in a half circle , silent , no laughter on their faces now , just memories of what might have been if they had had a child like the little girl who used to run into them , and a daughter as she was now . |
| 11 | Andy , my anaesthesiologist , gave me a smile and a pre-med jab and left me to float in a warm sea-green calm which was interrupted by the slap of rubber swing-doors and a breathless , ‘ Hi , my name 's Nudleman . |
| 12 | Then he ran out and left me crying on the kitchen floor . |
| 13 | Tony offered to walk back towards the vehicle , now a long way off , and left me to think about it all . |
| 14 | They bade goodnight to Joe and left him struggling with the two inebriates . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll have to ask the doctor , ’ she said , and left him standing in the bare corridor . |
| 16 | They put the stranger down on the outskirts and left him standing in the middle of the road , his face in shadow under his cap and just a glimmer of those white , pebbly eyes . |
| 17 | The sort of man whose head has been turned by success and left him staring in the wrong direction . |
| 18 | They ran over Mr Letts and left him lying in the road with serious internal injuries . |
| 19 | A HIT-AND-RUN driver who knocked down a Gaelic footballer and left him dying on a border road has been jailed for six months . |
| 20 | The man calmly walked all over the child 's body with his heavy boots , and left her screaming on the ground . |
| 21 | Her breath went and left her gasping for air . |
| 22 | Then his head dipped towards her and he kissed her full on the lips , a harsh , plundering kiss that robbed her of breath and left her trembling beneath him . |
| 23 | They tied her up and left her lying on the lounge floor . |
| 24 | When she gave him the number he just rang off and left her staring at the phone . |
| 25 | Then he nodded , almost curtly , wheeled and left her standing in the bathroom all alone . |
| 26 | He simply took things out of her hands and left her standing like a fool , and Jenna fumed silently . |
| 27 | He shook my hand heartily , and left us sitting in the front room while he went in search of ‘ something special ’ . |
| 28 | They always were rhythmic , percussive , beaty , tinny , rattly — a tease , in fact , they tickled your feet and left you begging for more . |
| 29 | This time I used a grey Ingres paper and left it exposed in parts of the sky , as well as using it as an undertone to modify the colour put over it elsewhere . |
| 30 | His nurse had brought the paper back from her lunch break and left it lying on the low coffee table during his appointments with his two previous patients . |