Example sentences of "[pers pn] left at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I left at two o'clock , Tally and I were addressing each other by first names ( ‘ Elliot ’ was strange to him and we settled for ‘ Ellix ’ ) and I was able to address the two waitresses by their first names without feeling uncomfortable . |
| 2 | I left at fourteen . |
| 3 | I left at twenty to eight . |
| 4 | I left at ten to two . |
| 5 | and then there 's me , tell me when it gets to eleven and like I had to go and get a shower and put the dinner all out and all before I left at half four . |
| 6 | Actually , he 'd started on that before six and I think he 'd finished when I left at six-fifteen . |
| 7 | . If you left at two . |
| 8 | There 's only me and you left at this table |
| 9 | After she left at 16 she got a job in a pub but became interested in nursing as a career , being taken on as a trainee student nurse three years later . |
| 10 | This word is sometimes used with the sense of forming a conclusion or deduction , e.g. ‘ she left at 8 o'clock , so she must have arrived by now ’ ; when ‘ must ’ is used in this way , it is rather less likely to occur in its weak form than when it is being used in its more familiar sense of ‘ obligation ’ . |
| 11 | I 've just been round to see Mrs Reynolds in the village , and she 's adamant that all the kitchen and scullery windows were closed when she left at nine-thirty . |
| 12 | When we left at 11.20 am the forecourt would be crowded with another congregation waiting to enter for the 11.30 am Celebration of the Sung Eucharist . |
| 13 | I just do n't know what it 's gon na be like , er , so I think if we , well at ten o'clock , if we left at ten , we 've got twelve hours to get down there |
| 14 | They left at two o'clock in the morning , with Lou repeating constantly , ‘ Oh , you 'd never guess I 've buried my Charlie this morning . ’ |
| 15 | A colleague from Christian Aid phoned me from Addis Ababa last night and he reported what had happened in the Red Sea port of Assab on Saturday which was when 15 trucks and trailers were loaded each with 22 tons of U N grain and there was a little ceremony as they left at 12 noon for Desai . |
| 16 | They left at seven o'clock , as Celia was starting her third draft . |
| 17 | They left at last . |
| 18 | They left at closing time split up outside , I reckon . |
| 19 | It left at two fifty P.M. and was crowded with people in heavy coats and fur hats who changed their mind constantly about leaving their outer clothing in the small wardrobe at the front of the cabin . |
| 20 | It left at half past seven , which meant getting up soon after half past six , and the journey took about an hour . |
| 21 | He was educated at Babbacombe School , Torquay , which he left at fourteen to join the office of George Bridgeman , an architect in Torquay , to whom he returned after being apprenticed to a quantity surveyor in London . |
| 22 | If they confirm that he left at one-thirty , then that does n't give him much time to have entered Randall Lodge and killed Wetherby ; he was practically at Ollerton by two a.m. , driving slowly despite being in his Daimler . |
| 23 | Hopkinson was educated at St Edward 's , Oxford , which he left at 16 for an apprenticeship in his uncle 's engineering firm at Manchester , where he joined the Territorial Army . |
| 24 | Overcome , perhaps , he left at half time . |