Example sentences of "leave [pers pn] [v-ing] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr. Preston , if I may say so that was pretty cold blooded of you to leave her lying on the floor until I came in . ’ |
| 2 | Saying that he ought to be able to get through a closed door as easily as an open one , Swift is supposed to have left him standing on the doorstep . |
| 3 | I must have just left her standing on the steps . |
| 4 | She had left it sitting on the table in her flat , she remembered , thinking back . |
| 5 | One time the doctor puts on rubber gloves and says something to Mum , and she goes out , leaving me sitting on the high bed , dangling my legs . |
| 6 | Then he ran out and left me crying on the kitchen floor . |
| 7 | just , just , left them lying on the floor . |
| 8 | So I just left her getting on the bus . |
| 9 | They left her bleeding on the ground and threatened to carry out further attacks if she went to the police . ’ |
| 10 | The man calmly walked all over the child 's body with his heavy boots , and left her screaming on the ground . |
| 11 | They tied her up and left her lying on the lounge floor . |
| 12 | Ginny left him brooding on the past in front of a game show on television . |
| 13 | When the crunch came , she left him standing on the dance floor . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He left it lying on the ground and you thought no one was about . |
| 16 | I filled the plastic detergent-bottle and primed the lighter , left it lying on the top of the bank most of the rabbit holes were in , then went back to the first of the blocked-up holes and lit the fuse with my disposable cigarette-lighter . |
| 17 | Little considerations such as replacing a magazine in the rack rather than leaving it lying on the couch , bringing the milk in off the step or refilling the ice cube tray , and a thousand little tailor-made considerations . |