Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] left the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An estimated 350,000 Kuwaitis were reported to have left the country at the time of the Iraqi invasion . |
| 2 | About 500,000 Sri Lankans , out of a population of 17m , are reckoned to have left the country because of the war . |
| 3 | After end of the strike a number of striking teachers were not reinstated and many of these were said to have left the country to seek work in Botswana . |
| 4 | Elizabeth Maxwell was said to have left the country after her husband 's death . |
| 5 | Peter Hall was said to have left the Dundee-based firm ‘ entirely voluntarily ’ and a company spokesman said his reasons for going were ‘ private ’ . |
| 6 | Two years ago , Capitol police reported seeing a figure who looked like Senator Thomas Hart Benton — thought to have left the premises in 1855 — sitting at his old desk in an historical display . |
| 7 | The professional London chef who had supervised the cooking was found to have left the area in a hurry on the previous evening . |
| 8 | Of the children born in Seascale 57% entered the village school ; the others were assumed to have left the village . |
| 9 | His widow Betty is believed to have left the mansion earlier this week . |
| 10 | With an Auriga fitted to the back of his Swift he was right on the pace at Brands Hatch , qualifying up the grid , only to have his hopes dashed when he was adjudged to have left the pits against a red light during practice . |