Her predecessors left such details largely to the social secretary.

They were therefore well prepared to take charge as soon as their predecessor left.

"That's our system," replied Power before his predecessor left the room.

He started in June and spent the summer cleaning up the administrative mess that his predecessor had left.

"My predecessor left for the same reason," she said.

"My predecessor left a broken man because of the pressures put on him here," he continued.

Through economic reconstruction, he gave new life to the devastated and plundered land which his predecessors had left him.

Her predecessor, a man, had left it bare of even a couch.

That was the future, but now he had to deal with the problems his predecessors had left him.

But we had some people who felt freer to have at each other once my predecessor left.