Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] left the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example in B , I had tried several times without success to contact a third-year female physics student who , it seemed , never looked in her departmental pigeonhole where I left the notes . |
| 2 | Although I left the car park wearing a long-sleeved T-shirt with my warmer clothes packed away in the rucksack , the walk was now a serious business and I was wearing everything I had with me . |
| 3 | The going looked even worse ahead , so I left the wheelbarrow and scouted around . |
| 4 | Britain 's Sharon Lee also faced Gao and succumbed to two knockdowns , but although she left the hall without a medal , two good wins , including a 20-second victory over Carole Scheid , of the United States , showed that she is capable of making an impact at world level . |
| 5 | Tonight she was to chair the meeting , so she left the front door unlocked for any late-comers , and , having seated the nervous little reporter from the Advent in a position where she could see and hear all the ladies present , giving her at the same time a hastily written list of the names of those expected to attend , she called the meeting to order . |
| 6 | But she could n't bear to go back into the bedroom , with all its bitter-sweet memories , so she left the ice bucket with the champagne in the salon . |
| 7 | ‘ So you left the Club about ten past eight , went home , found all was well , and went straight back ? ’ |
| 8 | By avoiding her culprit foods , and removing a number of synthetic chemicals ( see p 164 ) from her home , Hazel managed to maintain a reasonable state of health once she left the environmental unit . |
| 9 | And there was also another point she made : she would discard her black coat , black skirt , and black hat once she left the environs of The Courts . |
| 10 | It was so disgusting that we could not eat it , so we left the dining-room with empty stomachs . |
| 11 | No one seemed to be around , but nobody was willing to take any chances , and so they left the road and approached cautiously across country . |
| 12 | For as they left England so they left the English language behind . |
| 13 | He still felt extremely nervous about what might happen once they left the warren and had decided that the best way to avoid trouble would be to keep close to Hazel and do exactly what he said . |
| 14 | Blanche opened a road atlas once they left the motorway and navigated with the diligence of a woman who did not have a natural sense of direction . |
| 15 | They had arrived at a point opposite one corner of the house , but once they left the trees there was no more cover until they reached the broad belt of shrubbery which ran parallel to the side of the house . |
| 16 | He heard the bell go for the High Mass , and knew now that Caterina would n't be coming ; so he left the byre . |
| 17 | Once he left the M3 , his little store of optimism rapidly evaporated . |
| 18 | ‘ If I left the can just over there you could say you found it . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm going to tell you right away that , although I was n't a virgin when we married , I was until I left the train with Ludovico . |
| 20 | But er it was only u until I left the school cos I was only a matter of eight when I left that school so er I was n't in a it was n't in any progressive sort of style then I mean we wer it was more rudiments of education that we were taught and er |
| 21 | She blabbed to the Press and they hounded me until I left the country . |
| 22 | He watched her until she left the window , then he watched the window where she 'd been , but he wearied of that finally , and of the chill in his feet . |
| 23 | Claudia hardly saw Dana ; she left in the morning before her twin left her room , though more than once Claudia heard her moving about and she knew Dana was deliberately waiting until she left the flat before appearing to drink the coffee left ready for her . |
| 24 | Even if she left the dubious sanctuary of the car she had no clue to the best direction in which to seek help . |
| 25 | She grumbled to me that if she left the tap-handles in situ , people would take advantage and lie in their baths for hours on end , using a lot more hot water than their franc entitled them to . |
| 26 | A woman who kept a child home from school to mind the baby while she worked broke the law , and if she left the baby alone and it injured itself , she was also liable to prosecution . |
| 27 | She had given herself a fair amount of time to get to Luke 's , and if she left the motorway at the next junction and did n't hang around she 'd be only a little late at the most . |
| 28 | Even if she left the station there was nowhere to go to . |
| 29 | And then once all the acid was in if you left the tape open what would happen to the gas ? |
| 30 | So it would be much better if you left the washing up to me , and went and had a drink with him yourself . ’ |