Example sentences of "[noun] that left [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claudia wished she could stop shaking ; the touch of his hard body against hers had started up a whirlpool of emotion that left her wanting to run until she had put miles between them . |
| 2 | Pain and nausea swept over him in waves that left him hot and sticky and weak at the knees . |
| 3 | And yet how could the non-Russians indefinitely accept a division of labour that left them , in some cases , as ‘ raw material ’ republics , exporting their primary produce and importing more expensive manufactured goods ? |
| 4 | We talked a lot , laughed a lot , drank a lot — another round in the warming game of friendship that left me happy at the time , and aching afterwards as I contemplated the lonely bed . |
| 5 | The American Mary Vorse published her remarkable Autobiography of an Elderly Woman in 1911 , which reflects at length on the reversal of roles that left her ‘ contriving to get my own way , for all the world like a naughty , elderly child , while my daughter was worrying about my headstrong ways as if she was my mother instead of my being hers . ’ |
| 6 | It was carved into planes of rugged indifference , though the blue eyes that blazed at Charity were filled with cynical censure that left her in no doubt that he had heard almost every word Mandy had uttered about him . |
| 7 | The following year Ballesteros became involved in an endless , tiresome hassle over appearance money that left him isolated and a stranger on the European Tour . |
| 8 | On the other hand , the writing by a testator of his name on a testamentary document , as for instance by writing ‘ My will by John Smith ’ or perhaps by typing ‘ The will of John Smith , ’ or in some other passage that left it uncertain whether in doing so he was intending to authenticate the document , would not , by itself , satisfy either paragraph ( a ) or paragraph ( b ) of section 9 . |
| 9 | Karelius was about to correct her when she blundered on into a question that left him speechless . |
| 10 | He started to move , slowly at first and then faster in response to her pleas , and then suddenly everything disintegrated in a wild starburst of colour and sensation that left her shaken and helpless in his arms . |
| 11 | Without doing anything at all he could make things happen for which he must be punished with slaps , missed meals or verbal assaults that left him trembling and incoherent . |
| 12 | CHELSEA defender Paul Elliott is to sue Dean Saunders and Liverpool over the tackle that left him with a severe knee injury . |
| 13 | This appeared to everyone on the ground to be a very harsh decision , as Lambourn had been to the ground twice in less than five minutes , the second occasion with a fine hard tackle that left him limping badly . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Lying still , drugged by her own fantasies , she watched as he shrugged off his clothes with minimum effort , a lean efficiency of movement that left him naked , muscled and golden like a god from the pages of Nordic mythology . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Before she realised it , she was in his arms again , and this time he kissed her fiercely , a long kiss that left her feeling faint and breathless , and caused her heart to beat so fast that she felt sure he must be conscious of its wild throbbing . |
| 18 | A blaze of glory , a fury of passion that left them weak and trembling in each other 's arms . |
| 19 | He pulled her to him , kissing her with a fierce , demanding passion that left her clinging to him . |
| 20 | There was an edge to his comment that left her in no doubt that everything she said only confirmed the opinion he already had of her . |
| 21 | Brightness tempted him , and yet many bright pictures he saw were insipid , cold lies that left him unsatisfied . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Alina was wearing a plain white dress that left her back and shoulders bare . |
| 24 | So , as the architects comfortably settled back into their chairs cradling their after-dinner brandies in preparation for some regal platitudes , the Prince launched into a stinging attack that left them reeling . |
| 25 | But Karajan 's will was superhuman where music is concerned and he always had in his hand a trump card : a capacity for inner detachment that left him free of bitterness or rancour for all that has been written and said about him over the years . |
| 26 | Not for the first time she cursed the lack of experience wth men that left her with no clue as to how to interpret what happened between them . |
| 27 | He ridiculed our political system , he scarified our leading politicians , seizing upon their vulnerable points with a destructive analysis that left them bereft of merit or morality . |
| 28 | Of large build and possessed of ritual mannerisms when facing the bowling , his technique was founded in the securest of defence , and , although he was a shrewd placer of the ball , it was perhaps his seeming doggedness that left him out of the international reckoning at a time when England possessed several middle-order batsmen of sterling class . |
| 29 | And every time he came anywhere near her he seemed to generate a sort of static electricity that left her feeling angry and confused . |
| 30 | Anger roared inside her and she opened her mouth to tell him in no uncertain terms where to go , only she did n't have a chance to utter even one heated word , as he bent and covered her parted lips with his , kissing her with a thoroughness that left her shaken . |