Example sentences of "[vb past] left the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd left the whey-faced women in her hut |
| 2 | She 'd left the smashed car outside and staggered inside , drawing disapproving glances from the other guests . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought I would n't mention that until we 'd left the pea-green incorruptible behind . |
| 4 | Both things happened months after he 'd left the Southern Laboratory ; neither had anything to do with me . " |
| 5 | They 'd left the other door wide open , and as Juliet passed , she caught sight of a rumpled bed with blue sheets . |
| 6 | Yeah she 'd left the other three in at home . |
| 7 | and er I 'd left the front door and the inner door open and |
| 8 | He 'd left the local school as early as his birthday would allow and had n't really done anything for the following year except watch his father die . |
| 9 | She 'd left the top dressing-table drawer until last . |
| 10 | Japan had closed its embassy temporarily on Jan. 12 and the Egyptian ambassador had left the following day , although most Arab countries retained some representation . |
| 11 | It is unlikely that the ILP retained more than half its membership one year after it had left the Labour Party . |
| 12 | As you must know , Barbara and I had left the Black Swan before she drowned . ’ |
| 13 | Jewish emigration continued to increase , and this year 33,000 people had left the Soviet Union , nearly double the figure for the whole of 1988 . |
| 14 | Benny reddened at the stares , but Nan had left the two admirers and was bounding up to the back row . |
| 15 | She had left the two of them to duel , not even acting as referee , waiting for them to tire , perhaps even to appeal to her . |
| 16 | ‘ You have n't exactly had a peaceful birthday ! ’ she 'd reminded Laura , who 'd smiled as she had recalled the twins ' boundless energy , which had left the two adults feeling quite exhausted at the end of the day . |
| 17 | On the ground , when they had left the parked plane , Myeloski excused himself and went to the men 's room . |
| 18 | The reason for this is that , in Europe , the long centuries of persecution by the Christian Church had left the Western cat with a very low status . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At 49 all the curtains were drawn and at 51 Mrs Archer had left the front door open , perhaps in the hope that Mr Archer would return . |
| 21 | When the car had left the front door and they had promised to behave , Michael was sent to check on Mrs Murphy , up to her sleeves in the sink . |
| 22 | As for Surere , Huy had surrendered to the thought that the man had left the Southern Capital long ago . |
| 23 | By the end of the war Winnicott had left the actual practice of physical paediatrics behind , his outpatient clinic at Paddington Green becoming in effect a department of child psychiatry based on psychodynamic theory and on his particular way of using it . |
| 24 | After they made love , he had left the warm bed and her possessive arms . |
| 25 | The RAF had left the historic airfield in 1970 . |
| 26 | All of Brundle 's simple rules and runes had left the complacent head which believed it knew it all anyway . |
| 27 | He had left the comparative safety of the platform of the step-ladder and was now clinging to what felt like a dangerously pliable branch of the tree . |
| 28 | ONCE he had left the modern flat where he lived with his father in Johannesburg , John Cranko always lived in old houses . |
| 29 | As the modified aircraft had left the Long Beach and Oxnard facilities , they were test flown and ferried to Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in Orange County . |
| 30 | Shaken and tearful , Laura had left the small private room , joining Ross outside in the corridor . |