Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] left the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd just left the Royal Academy , I 'd just got the results of my finals . |
| 2 | She 'd also left the heating on for him , which was doing nothing except heating the window-sill for the pigeons and running up my bills . |
| 3 | If only they 'd never left the basement with the empty meat-safe hanging outside the window . |
| 4 | ‘ How could a scrap of a woman who 'd never left the country get mixed up with some crazy Venetian ? |
| 5 | I once went to get the buggy out and I 'd accidentally left the key in the door |
| 6 | She had since left the New York City Ballet , and was working as a counsellor for the blind at both the Lighthouse and the Jewish Guild . |
| 7 | Mr Smith said Mr Curren had since left the pub and Spanswick had not been in touch with him since the incident . |
| 8 | He found him in a couple of minutes , before he had properly left the house . |
| 9 | The twins , who had only left the Pony Club two years ago , pushed off to see their old chums . |
| 10 | The sun had suddenly left the Lock . |
| 11 | Traffic had long left the streets . |
| 12 | But Simon had never got beyond page 27 , and after that he had merely left the book out in case his mother and stepfather came unexpectedly for drinks . |
| 13 | She had already left the show , but the rumours persisted that she was very fond of handsome Aussie stars Alan Dale and Ian Smith . |
| 14 | But he had already left the cell and , with a parting wink of his fat kindly face , shut the door . |
| 15 | Anyone who could do so had already left the city for the comparative cool of the country . |
| 16 | ‘ You had already left the Minister 's office , sir … ’ |
| 17 | Outside the main entrance , where two police vans and motorcyclists had drawn up , the crowd reacted angrily when Superintendent Paul Burrell said the boys had already left the building . |
| 18 | Most of the Queens friends and ladies-in-waiting had already left the country . |
| 19 | He had already left the Free Church of Scotland in 1873 and joined the more liberal United Presbyterians . |
| 20 | She had been sure he had already left the castle before she and Ellen had ventured into the town . |
| 21 | ‘ Ye-es , ’ said Morse , but to himself , for Lewis had already left the Annexe to summon Brown . |
| 22 | Sunday was not much better ; Miss Huntley had not risen from her bed until one p.m. and had not left the flat until five , then only to go to the cinema . |
| 23 | Mr Martin immediately took him to task , reminding him that , in an earlier statement to the police , he had informed them that he had not left the cinema until six . |
| 24 | Since the desk clerk was adamant that the Colonel had not left the hotel , Bodie took the letter addressed to Lin Foh , and offered to deliver it to him in person . |
| 25 | Also , if , by the end of the day , he had not left the house without her permission , she would read an extra long story to him . |
| 26 | Jane Pargeter was not particularly popular on the programme either , but several people who had been at the party supported her story that she had not left the party at all until Nicola 's body had been found . |
| 27 | Ellen 's father , Jack , had greeted his daughter with the testily expressed hope that she had not left the safe position at the royal castle that he had gone to considerable trouble to obtain for her . |
| 28 | It had been he himself , Lewis , who had finally got on to the man there who was in the process of completing the proofs for the forthcoming seminal opus entitled Pre-Conquest Craftsmanship in Southern Britain , by Theodore S. Kemp , MA , DPhil ; the man who had been closeted with Kemp that fateful morning , and who had confirmed that Kemp had not left the offices until about 12.30 p.m . |
| 29 | His correspondent had lately left the academic world for military service ; and with his own bookish situation , so detrimental to " independent thought " , Nietzsche contrasted and , in part , commended his friend 's active life : " … not that I applaud your present profession as such , bud only insofar as it is the negation of your previous life … |
| 30 | The forensic scientist had finally left the road at last light , certain it had nothing more to yield . |