Example sentences of "[Wh det] was leave [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bomb , which was left in the bargain book department on the first floor of the store , destroyed four units . |
| 2 | This is particularly important in the ideological vacuum which was left by the retreat of empire from Africa and Asia where much soil conservation had been designed by colonial administration . |
| 3 | At first the water made no difference but eventually the flames began to die until what was left of the bed was nothing but black smouldering ash . |
| 4 | Jos said to Mungo , breaking what was left of the ice . |
| 5 | Such colour as there was drained from her face , and what was left of the biscuit fell from her hand . |
| 6 | The yellow and orange feathers that form the head flash can be quite inconspicuous at times but when I spread them out with my fingers they burned like flame in what was left of the winter light . |
| 7 | Inevitably it was even more chaotic than the first , with no sort of line possible to be kept by the attackers , and what was left of the encampment now a shambles . |
| 8 | Starting out for Espero Fray Gary , the warm up area near the campground , we had to use what was left of the road after a landslide and I soon learned an essential fact about climbing in Spain — it 's a great advantage to be able to speak some Spanish . |
| 9 | It was fourteen days since the force had crossed the Tweed , eluded the levies that rode to intercept it , and roved south towards Newcastle , pillaging and burning what was left of the standing crops . |
| 10 | She forgot to call the apartment again , and decided by two in the morning that she might as well stay at the clinic for what was left of the night . |
| 11 | Leonora stared at the closed door forlornly , certain she 'd lie awake for what was left of the night . |
| 12 | Searching back wearily and wretchedly through what was left of the night they found Iorwerth dragging himself painfully along the grass like a trampled snail in a slime of blood , and two more who crawled and swooned by turns in the fringes of the wood . |
| 13 | He pushed open what was left of the door , and went inside the hut . |
| 14 | I laughed at myself , felt better , and settled down on the window-seat in the sun to enjoy what was left of the afternoon . |
| 15 | Robyn swore and flung herself at the stove , trying to scrape what was left of the bacon away from the bottom of the pan . |
| 16 | After buying fresh bread she had gone on to the fish market where boxes full of melting ice displayed what was left of the morning 's catch , much of which she did n't recognise . |
| 17 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 18 | Before they went to bed they had filled buckets with what was left of the pool to use in the lavatories . |
| 19 | And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived . |
| 20 | And after her first day 's work , which proved her promise that she liked housework , Peggy plied her with what was left of the Christmas fare . |
| 21 | It took three hours to get what was left of the body out . |
| 22 | Unfortunately the damage was already done by the time Richard was fully recovered , and in spite of his commendable efforts to rescue what was left of the business he had built from his own sweat , it was far too late . |
| 23 | But what was left of the line of knights after every fall always came on , implacably brave ; and Hotspur 's heart started and complained grievously whenever the foremost fell , still short of the river bank . |
| 24 | His cohorts fell upon the champagne and what was left of the shepherd 's pie . |
| 25 | He set the tray down gently by the bedside , and picked up what was left of the mummy . |
| 26 | He strode towards what was left of the undergrowth and started cutting it down . |
| 27 | She would fall thirty feet to the beach below , and they would find her , crushed and broken , beneath what was left of the chair . |
| 28 | ‘ He had to pick an England team from what was left after the week-end games a fortnight ago , while I found myself with just two players at Highbury for almost the entire week . |
| 29 | It is , for instance , quite possible that the grain found on this particular estate by the royal surveyors was what was left after the deduction of food-distributions to slaves and other dependents . |
| 30 | Yet in fact the principle at stake is quite a different one : these texts are dealing with a special type of trust of the residue of an estate , under which a trustee was requested on his death to hand over whatever was left of the estate he had inherited . |