11.   He became a spinner in a Preston cotton-mill, but disliked the restricted life and left at the age of seventeen.

12.   He got us into this mess, and then left at the first sniff of trouble!

13.   He thinks this keeps him on his mettle, but it often leaves him at a loss for the right word.

14.   I found the protozoan attracted in large numbers to slate panels we deliberately left at vents for one year and then recovered.

15.   It proved impossible to find enough wet nurses for the thousands of babies left at the hospital.

16.   Mrs Collins will be leaving us at the end of the summer term.

17.   Once again Oliver is separated from his friends and left at the mercy of strangers.

18.   Part of the surviving force was left at Kufra, while others were flown back to Kabrit to refit and resupply.

19.   She left me at a lonely crossroads.