Example sentences of "was left with [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was much better in herself and the sinus problem having effectively gone by Puls LM3 she was left with hot flushes and no further improvement . |
| 2 | In the end , I was left with two voices in my ear , Normandin saying , ‘ It saved my life ’ and the Government saying that making a fuss could have severe consequences . |
| 3 | Finally , I was left with one rehearsal , and at that point Professor Rosé , who was the distinguished leader of the orchestra in those days , came to me and said , ‘ Look here , you have only one rehearsal . |
| 4 | Unfortunately my father was killed in the first war , nineteen seventeen January , and my mother was left with four children to bring up . |
| 5 | His hope was that the pope would allow the decision reached there to stand ; the plan , however , misfired for soon after the court 's opening the case was revoked to Rome , and Henry was left with little hope of a satisfactory verdict . |
| 6 | She had not intended to bring this out into the open in quite this way , but she was left with little option , and she had a vague instinct that in the long run it might reap results . |
| 7 | As her business empire grew , Roddick was left with little time to participate actively in such environmental causes as Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace , with which her own convictions were closely aligned . |
| 8 | The hours she was working , she was left with little time for popping across the corridor for coffee and a chat , let alone for socialising . |
| 9 | Divorced Mr Glover , of Kingsdown , Kent , was left with 17 stitches in face wounds , two suspected broken ribs and severe bruising . |
| 10 | The General Staff was left with unenviable task of deploying a smaller army than was needed in such a way as to reduce the risks of the Sandys Reformation . |
| 11 | When he died , after their long absences abroad , she was left with few friends in England . |
| 12 | The latest figures for 1990–91 show that the NHS was left with bad debts of £764,000 , which a department spokesman admitted was mainly due to people leaving the country without paying for their treatment . |
| 13 | He slurped as noisily as a ravenous dog , mopping up what was left with hard crusts of bread which Father Peter shoved before him on a wooden platter . |
| 14 | And then joined so he joined the army , and I was left with this bicycle , and a friend of mine said , How about coming with us on Sunday , you can skip chapel this Sunday , and we 'll go out er we 're going into Derbyshire , and I finished up on Ack 's Edge . |
| 15 | One exemption not to be overlooked is the normal expenditure exemption under which a taxpayer who has a considerable amount of net income arising over the years is able to make gifts into a discretionary trust out of his income provided the expenditure is normal and that , after allowing for all transfers of value forming part of his normal expenditure , the transferor was left with sufficient income to maintain his normal standard of living ( IHTA 1984 , s21 ) . |
| 16 | Although the government pronounced the sale a success , it was left with unsold shares in three of the companies . |
| 17 | Miss Logan did win one small , final argument — by forceful gesture rather than words — and Miss Fergusson was left with both bottles of molten snow . |
| 18 | As for the longer term consequences , Rex was paralysed from the waist down and Willy , as you know , was left with severe brain damage . |
| 19 | A woman who was left with severe brain damage in a road accident has been awarded three hundred thousand pounds compensation from her husband 's former employer . |