Example sentences of "[been] left [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ It had been left with a blue towel wrapped around its waist and legs but was otherwise uncovered . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The hearing was told the child had been left with a 14-year-old baby-sitter . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As a result , the path has been left in a half-finished state . |
| 9 | 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 . |