Example sentences of "left [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was , I assume , that he felt immediately able to talk to me in a businesslike and trusting way , and by the end of our meeting , he had left me with the administration of a not inconsiderable sum to meet the costs of a wide range of preparations for his coming residency . |
| 2 | My dealings with the café owner have left me with the impression that he has got to breaking point with the number of canoeists being attracted to the Fairy Glen and has singled out a canoeist who happens to drive a red Escort van and has used this as an excuse for stopping other canoeists when the real reason goes much deeper and in my opinion is linked to financial gain . |
| 3 | He had left me with the one who would become the most famous . |
| 4 | and er building trade work , both of these things had left me with the qualifications for be abl be able to do it . |
| 5 | The leaders of the main parties and the Darlington candidates have left me with the following impressions . |
| 6 | She looked up at Trent , as if seeing him for the first time : ‘ I 'd have drowned if you 'd left me on the Key . ’ |
| 7 | Pursuing legal action would have cost them money they did n't have ( unless it meant selling their house which was not an option ) but doing nothing left them with the feeling that justice was n't being done . |
| 8 | The car has been written off , which has left them with the prospect of having to pay out for a new vehicle . |
| 9 | Trading in these securities has been sparse since the crash in October 1987 , and the recent withdrawals of marketmakers such as Warburg Securities , UBS Phillips & Drew and County NatWest from dealing in the securities of many smaller companies has left them without the mandatory two marketmakers for inclusion in the SEAQ system of continuously updated two-way prices . |
| 10 | they start to ring their friends up when they 've just left them during the day , fine |
| 11 | David Steel , Curator of European Art at the museum expressed the opinion that Mr Humber would probably have left them to the museum had he made a will , while he himself had tried to persuade the owner to donate them to the Rembrandthuis , Amsterdam . |
| 12 | So somebody had to tell him he 'd left them at the |
| 13 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 14 | We wondered what stupid idiot had left them on the Tube . ’ |
| 15 | 1992 has left them on the edge of relegation and out of the cup . |
| 16 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 17 | He 'd left them in the refrigerator factory … ? |
| 18 | And it came to him , with a cold steely horror chilling the bloodstream as if from a lethal injection — he had left them in the stolen mini . |
| 19 | He stretched and looked about him , feeling good , noticing his furs where he had left them in the corner of the room . |
| 20 | He 'd left them in the Courtesy Cleaners : they 'd be ready in time for Easter Saturday . |
| 21 | Their mother had left them in the vehicle while she put a birthday card through a neighbour 's letterbox . |
| 22 | She 'd left them in the caravan , and he just see the keys |
| 23 | ‘ I 've left yours in the kitchen , ’ she said quietly , resuming her seat . |
| 24 | And of course that was why Hardy had taken against him , why he had left him on the sidelines any time he picked a team for some action , why he had now given him a job that he knew anyone else in the unit would have balked at . |
| 25 | Anyway I was back in the office when I suddenly felt hot and faint … you see I had left him on the island , with three lanes still to cross . |
| 26 | Either by accident or as punishment for his sins , she had left him to the mercy of the Bogeyman . |
| 27 | The conversation with Rosie had left him with the impression Rain was carrying the keys , and her own deliberately misleading answer that evening had confirmed it . |
| 28 | No trace was found of the men who had left him in the yard . |
| 29 | I have just left him in the park . |
| 30 | It was funny he should have remembered the row that week-end , when Patricia had left him in the cinema , and the per … pervert had touched his leg , because that was when all this had really started . |