Example sentences of "when [pron] be left [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was frightened , I tell you , when I was left alone in the crypt , with a single candle to light my way , and discerned gradually , as my eyes grew accustomed to the dark , the subjects of the Prince 's experiments , standing upright , sentinels at each wall of the chamber , with glittering eyes and teeth . |
| 2 | Happy when they were together , when she was left alone she fretted , missing his presence and the way the light moved round his body as he enthusiastically used every inch of it to express the slightest emotion . |
| 3 | ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury . |
| 4 | Eliot once muttered when they were left alone together , which Sherek took as a sign that he was uneasy in his company — but , over the next ten years and three dramas , the partnership proved a fruitful one . |
| 5 | When they were left alone , a silence descended , broken only by the click of silver against porcelain as Jake helped himself to sugar and stirred . |