Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] left the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jinkwa had left the command vehicle under the control of the Environments Officer and ventured forth in a scouting party with two of his troopers . |
| 2 | Dr Neil had left the kitchen , to finish his toilet , presumably . |
| 3 | But the fighting had left the British and French armies even weaker . |
| 4 | I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump . |
| 5 | When the car had left the front door and they had promised to behave , Michael was sent to check on Mrs Murphy , up to her sleeves in the sink . |
| 6 | The small airstrip was well away from the house and even before they turned to land a car had left the property and was heading out to meet them . |
| 7 | She said he did n't have an enemy in the world and that his murder had left the whole family devastated . |
| 8 | Peter Heatherston , the Raith captain , quipped that the player-manager 's brace of goals had left the squad dreading the week ahead in training . |
| 9 | So , a victory for Oxford United ; it came after a few of the supporters had left the ground , it came in injury time — Oxford United one , Portsmouth nil , reporting on the match , a very happy Nick Harris . |
| 10 | Travis had left the door open — she seized her chance , and was through it like a shot . |
| 11 | Many of those affected by the relocation had left the south as refugees from the conflict there in the previous decade . |
| 12 | Like so many others , by this time Millend had left the cloth trade and , in this case , been turned over to corn and saw milling . |
| 13 | The bunch pulled out by the weathercock had left the rest of the twigs loose in their binding . |
| 14 | As the modified aircraft had left the Long Beach and Oxnard facilities , they were test flown and ferried to Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in Orange County . |
| 15 | The nervous tension of the build-up to the wedding had left the royal couple absolutely drained . |
| 16 | By February 1187 at the latest , however , Richard had left the south and was in Normandy to welcome his father on his arrival from England . |
| 17 | And by the time Cornelius had left the playground and taken to the street , his feet were up and the cigarettes were out . |
| 18 | Well I there there was a a classic example of this during the refurbishments when the contractors had left the building unsecured over |
| 19 | They had then returned to Weymouth and diverted to the crematorium , where Heather had left the car just long enough to take a photograph . |
| 20 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 21 | Yes , and the girls had three months ' notice to leave and on the last day at three months I heard that a young lady had left the Post Office . |
| 22 | The DDA had left the phone on automatic redial and now it was ringing back from London . |
| 23 | George Rudd was on tour ; Michael Lamonte , according to his lady friend , was filming at Pinewood ; Berenson had left the business for school-teaching and was n't about to throw it up , thank you , for all the tea in China , and did Meredith realise it was gone midnight ? |
| 24 | But by 1830 Burn had left the Greek revival behind him for the subdued Italianate of his branch banks and the big , simple palazzo from of his New Club on Edinburgh 's Princes Street of 1834 . |
| 25 | The police , however , still needed proof that Thom had left the country with Eva before issuing a warrant . |
| 26 | ‘ What she means , ’ Ruth said pertly when Mrs Longhill had left the kitchen , ‘ is that her servants must keep up the standards ! ’ |
| 27 | The hole through which the survivors of B Shift had left the Bridge was knitting back together like cloth , the weave forming as the bulk of the mist reduced . |
| 28 | A goalless first leg at Hillsborough had left the whiff of an upset mingling with the burgers and Bovril , but Wednesday cleared the air ruthlessly with four first-half goals in the space of 23 minutes . |
| 29 | Once Frank Connor had left the certainties of life in County Limerick , he always seemed like an actor who had wandered into the wrong play . |
| 30 | Sergeant Bird entered the library bearing a laden tray minutes after Anthea Darnell had left the room . |