Example sentences of "left to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watching Ranald drop a rafter on his head , Marion sneered at herself that these children , this filthy hovel were all that was left to her . |
| 2 | The jurist replies that it is : the daughter can sue under a trust for relief , so that the whole share left to her remains intact . |
| 3 | Her investments provided her with an annual income of well over a million dollars , in addition to the trusts and investments left to her directly by her husband . |
| 4 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 5 | Loss of earnings and career prospects can be a serious matter for someone who knows that she is going to have to support herself for many years after her parents have gone ; and unless the home in which they are living is owned by them , and left to her in their will , she is also going to have to provide accommodation for herself when they die . |
| 6 | Or as a bonny nine-year-old , celebrating her first Christmas at Watton … with only five years of life left to her . |
| 7 | The will also showed that her father 's lifetime savings , which fortunately were still safely in the bank , had also been left to her . |
| 8 | Aggie , sitting looking into the fire , nodded as she thought : And aye , Mama took the only step left to her , and look where it 's got her . |
| 9 | Lady Diana counting how many days of freedom are left to her . |
| 10 | As Creggan and Kraal continued to tell their dearest memories , night began to fall and Minch began to plan out what she would do in the limited time she felt she had left to her . |
| 11 | A recipe her grandmother had left to her . |
| 12 | Most of his property was left to her , in a will containing no mention of any children . |
| 13 | There was only one place left to her . |
| 14 | She wished more than anything that she could say yes , or at least explain that if it had been left to her she would have come with all the will in the world , but there was her mother . |
| 15 | That , and the last vestige of pride left to her , because somewhere in her mind grief for Edmund was being overshadowed by a silent warning . |
| 16 | She had never thought of herself as an indecisive person , but now she did n't know whether she wanted the time to pass quickly , or whether she wanted to guard jealously the hours left to her of Fen 's company . |
| 17 | Been left to her , perhaps , by her parents ? |
| 18 | All that was left to her now was to not let him know just how much he had hurt her . |
| 19 | All that was left to her now was pride — pride not to let him know how much he had hurt her , pride not to let him find out how much she loved him . |
| 20 | As it was , it was left to her to verbally let him know what she thought of his offer to help her out with her mortgage . |
| 21 | I had one repaired for Susannah , it had been left to her by an aunt and she had managed to smash it against a post or something and broke the shank and knocked out one of the erm , stones , so on and so forth , and eh , together with some repairs on a charm bracelet I had to pay thirty seven pounds for the whole jolly lot . |
| 22 | Maybe they had one or two servants , but a lot of the household , running , was left to her . |
| 23 | It was less than an hour from dusk , and we would have camped there had it been left to me . |
| 24 | I 'll say this , if he 's done it , he 's done something more than you hulks 'ave ever done ; it 's been left to me two lasses to breed . |
| 25 | I 'm not long for this world and I might as well enjoy what time is left to me . |
| 26 | If it had been left to me I would have put him out on the street long ago . |
| 27 | What does frighten me is that there may not be sufficient time left to me to do as you suggest . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've done 35 Cowes Weeks and nine Fastnets , ’ said Simms , ‘ There are few yachting challenges left to me except , say , the America Cup . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ She was the eldest , ’ he murmured in what sounded like reluctant explanation , ‘ but the farm and the house were left to me , as the eldest son . |
| 30 | I am surprised not only that 20 minutes is left to me , but that education has been tabled at this stage in the debate on the Loyal Address . |