Example sentences of "[noun sg] she left [art] " in BNC.

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1 Without so much as a backward glance she left the room , indignation clear in the rigidity of her spine as his mocking laugh rang out behind her .
2 When they broke for lunch she left the stage very quickly , anxious only to go back to her room .
3 To Joan , he confessed that he was ‘ not sure ’ so often that at one point she left the boat , determined to have the child on her own .
4 As she left Coleherne Court she left a poignant note for her flatmates , giving them her new telephone number : ‘ For God 's sake ring me up — I 'm going to need you . ’
5 Her mother talked and instructed and bustled until the minute she left the house .
6 It was absorbing work , scrambling over the rocks , especially hampered by a hat in one hand , so after a while she left the hat on a dry plateau beside a pool and pursued her way unencumbered .
7 It was the first communication she 'd had with her since the day she left the convent ignominiously and in dire disgrace .
8 At the house door she left the candle burning upon a shelf within , and took him by the hand to lead him across the stones of the court to the wicket gate ; but he halted her suddenly , drawing her back within the shelter of the doorway .
9 For once in her life she left the loft with the lights on and the hatch open .
10 Without a word she left the Archimandrite 's cell , swept from the courtyard in a manner which made three sheep instinctively follow her , and started down the mountainside .
11 I 'm pretty sure that I was the reason she left the big house , though I had n't actually been born then . ’
12 She owned farms locally and spent her life worrying about Christian slaves in Turkey , for on her death she left the farms to pay for their ransom .
13 By the time she left the stage — ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ was the predictable finale — both he and his most successful star had survived their sternest test .
14 ‘ I thought to myself , Martha must be growing up now , it 's time she left the country and came to live with me and go to a good school . ’
15 She could hear a tiny voice somewhere , talking and pausing , as if somebody 's radio was interfering with the music , but by the time she left the room it had stopped .
16 By the time she left the hotel Duncan was in bed , the light and television both switched off .
17 He made quite a fuss about it , saying it was time she left the nest , stood up to the forceful Elise and lived her own life .
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