Example sentences of "[pers pn] left for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I left for the South Coast to join Lord Lovat and the invasion that was to come . ’ |
| 2 | I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’ |
| 3 | Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them . |
| 4 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 5 | I dropped it when I left for the realm . |
| 6 | Must ‘ ave been a good nine months back , not that long after you left for the front , come to think of it . ’ |
| 7 | Finally , she left for the airfield in a pale-green safari suit , which marked her a soldier 's wife but distinguished her from the lesser spouses . |
| 8 | She was about to ask if he 'd be back before she left for the night , when the door closed behind him . |
| 9 | Do you happen to know whether she was wearing it when she left for the airport ? |
| 10 | As she left for the first night party , she just had time to tell us what she thought : |
| 11 | Realising it was vital , we left for the mountains immediately . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's time we left for the NEC , ’ Myra said , her eyes darting from Claudia to Roman and back again . |
| 13 | With puffins still zooming around the landing bay , we left for the mainland having had a marvellous day . |
| 14 | Then they left for the 13-mile drive to their luxurious home at Corston , near Bath . |
| 15 | Alternatively , he could always have chatted up one of the drivers of Middleton & Co. 's waggon , asking if there was a bit of spare room for an extra body when they left for the King 's Arms in Holborn on a Sunday evening or a Monday morning . |
| 16 | It was won by the Cheshire Youth Orchestra , who were in jubilant mood as they left for the journey home . |
| 17 | At 3.30am the following day they left for the summit , Wanda climbing slowly by herself while Carlos , who was going well , reached the summit at 5pm . |
| 18 | Formed at Munsingen , it left for the front on 16 February 1945 — far too late for Vlasov 's dream to have a chance of fulfillment , and two weeks after the Wehrmacht officially cast KONR adrift as no longer part of the German armed forces . |
| 19 | Mr Browning , before he left for the south , complimented her on her handling of his friend . |
| 20 | If he had been able to speak to Jo each morning before he left for the Embassy , he probably would n't have been such a pain in the outer office . |
| 21 | He said he left for the thrill of a start-up rather than the tedium of maintenance , indicating Silicon Graphics , MIPS new master , did not consider making the MIPS chip a universal standard as much of a priority as Sun does the Sparc . |
| 22 | Terry had to go back on Sunday night and before he left for the station hugged his mother and looked fearfully into her drawn face . |
| 23 | He left for the Somme at the end of December and was soon transferred to the 2nd Manchesters . |
| 24 | Larkin 's humiliating defeat did not prevent his becoming president of the Irish Trades Union Congress , and he had their blessing when he left for the United States in October 1914 , hoping to retrieve his union 's fortunes . |
| 25 | Then he left for the warmth of his blankets . |
| 26 | A former colleague explained why he left for the police . |