Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] left the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I 'd left the horse in the yard and gone in for breakfast I found both Mackie and Sam Yaeger sitting at the table with Tremayne , all of them discussing that day 's racing at Nottingham . |
| 2 | There was an Audi which passed me soon after I 'd left the pub . |
| 3 | I 'd left the Navy |
| 4 | I lay there trying to square what I heard with the new enthusiasm derived from Edward and Laura , for I 'd left the Lodge around two in the morning , ready to set off with them the next day in search of the horizon . |
| 5 | As he ducks he has Des diving for his legs and me closing in , and this is the moment we all discover the benefits of my upbringing because like a promising cadet I 'd left the pistol 's safety on . |
| 6 | I 'd left the light on in the hall . |
| 7 | Obviously I 'd left the rabbits alone for too long , or I 'd have known about the existence of such a brute . |
| 8 | and er I 'd left the front door and the inner door open and |
| 9 | And I 'd left the gates open an oh it was Friday ! |
| 10 | My involvement with the tunnel did not extend to the rail link which was decided after I had left the department . |
| 11 | Now that I had left the college dormitory I used to look fearfully from rime to time out of my window , expecting to see that gang of fascist students coming to beat me up . |
| 12 | ‘ When I got back I found I had left the garden door a little ajar ; she must have taken a chill . |
| 13 | The person for whom I had left the message replied that he was sorry to hear of the death of our mutual friend . |
| 14 | That was the reason why I had left the Dublin coach in County Meath , before reaching the city . |
| 15 | I believe now the driver — I did n't see who it was — was checking that I had left the pub . |
| 16 | If I had left the move till later it would probably have been much more traumatic . |
| 17 | I had left the Co-op and joined the Civil Service as a clerical assistant in the Tax Office . |
| 18 | I had left the technical college in February 1980 and within a few weeks had landed an audio typist 's job with a trendy voluntary housing organization . |
| 19 | As you must know , Barbara and I had left the Black Swan before she drowned . ’ |
| 20 | For a moment I thought I had been mistaken , and that perhaps I had left the switch on after the light failed , but no , I was sure I had switched off . |
| 21 | They had made the transition to college ‘ inhabitants ’ in the two years since I had left the borough . |
| 22 | But as soon as I had left the building , James and the Old Man and all the ties and affections of my ex-job began to blur . |
| 23 | I had left the room without speaking and gone into the garden . |
| 24 | I had to go about north-north-east , and if I hit the coast in the wrong place I could go first one way , then the other , until I came to the shingle where I had left the dinghy . |
| 25 | I had left the dinghy drawn up on the shingle , with her painter tied to her small Danforth anchor , hooked into the beach . |
| 26 | After I had left the laboratory , I escaped into the country outside the town . |
| 27 | Only when she was out of sight and I had turned a corner did I remember that I had left the little willow leaf from her body lying upstairs on her Sophocles . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought you 'd left the country for good . ’ |
| 29 | Not for her the summit this day ; she 'd left the others to it . |
| 30 | In a fit of unshyness she 'd left the shoe shop and was working as a receptionist at a doctor 's practice . |