Example sentences of "and left it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time I used a grey Ingres paper and left it exposed in parts of the sky , as well as using it as an undertone to modify the colour put over it elsewhere . |
| 2 | It is often asserted that the First World War rescued the Unionist Party from an impossible position and left it poised to become the dominating force ; the war broke up Liberalism and destroyed the Liberal-Labour alliance , so opening the way for Unionism ; Lloyd George carried the party to victory in 1918 , incurred the odium for the post-war slump and was cast aside ungratefully in 1922 . |
| 3 | He hung his heavy axe and rubber-handled flashlight on nails hammered into the edge of a high shelf , then shrugged his jacket from his shoulders and left it to lie where it fell . |
| 4 | She shrugged it off and left it lying where it fell , in a heap at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 5 | She put everything into it , and Ivy simply lopped off everything she said and left it lying there , dead . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Blyth had taken off the hollow plastic leg and left it lying tangled in its straps and the long grass blades . |
| 8 | ‘ No , no , what they did was attach a slow fuse to the gunpowder and left it coiled under the bed . ’ |
| 9 | I took a big bite , put it back on the table and left it to rot throughout the night . |
| 10 | She put down the candle and left it burning there . |
| 11 | The registers give the impression — in itself plausible — that Henry VII told his Council what he wanted and left it to work out the details . |
| 12 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 13 | He got off the bike at the bridge and left it propped against the suspension cables , then walked to the middle of the swaying bridge , where the gate is . |