Example sentences of "have left [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Now , at Old Gang there 's that same air that certain places have , as though what has gone on before has left on the landscape not just scars but a presence .
2 My wife has left with the two girls saying ‘ I canny take any more ’ .
3 In many ways this huge and fascinating archive will provide for students of late twentieth-century British politics something similar to what Francis Place has left for the historian of the early nineteenth century .
4 Everyone has left for the weekend .
5 If hesitating between a peach and a pear you languidly inspect sniff and fondle the fruit before deciding for the pear , and eat it slowly with a look of bliss , no one who has left behind the absolutism of childhood ( ‘ Anyone can see that a peach is nicer than a pear ’ ) will doubt that you made the best possible choice between the flavours ; the rightness of the choice , and the objective fact that in the fullest awareness of the two flavours you were spontaneously moved to take the pear , are two sides of the same coin .
6 Spaniard Martin Vasquez , back with Real Madrid after an unhappy few months at the Velodrome , has left in the last year or so along with Chris Waddle , Trevor Steven , Dragan Stojkovic , Eric Cantona and £10 million Jean-Pierre Papin .
7 It will be funded by what money Tees Valley Tourism has left in the kitty , with contributions from hotels in the area .
8 He came home to sleep and as soon as he woke after she 'd left for the Clinic , he went out .
9 So I called back again and the number was engaged , so I called back again and got through and he 'd left for the day
10 He bent down to his briefcase which he 'd left on the floor , took out a folder , turned back the pages , and handed it to her .
11 It was then that I saw that the folder I 'd left on the coffee table was gone .
12 Despite the Second Test trouncing by New Zealand , Murphy says Ireland needed that match , ‘ We 'd have come home with a very mistaken picture of our true form if we 'd left after the first international ’ .
13 A glass I 'd left in the kitchen in the morning was on the bedside table — with a drop of wine in it .
14 Bannen , whom she 'd left in the Operations Room , supposedly wracked with grief over the abrupt crash of the simularity of his son .
15 I just assumed you 'd left in the morning .
16 In a few minutes they 'd left behind the head office of Chester Fabrics , driven past the fire-blackened fabric printing plant and escaped into the lush green countryside on the way back to Armscott Manor , the rambling Cotswold home of the Chesters for three generations .
17 Over 50 per cent of the population of many US cities are now ethnic ‘ majorities ’ — the whites having left for the outer suburban areas .
18 The house was empty and quiet , all the guests having left for the day .
19 Having left behind the bigoted Bolivian elite for whom he would always be only a rich cholo , the contemptuous South American term for anyone of mixed blood , Simon Patiño had his family enter a far grander arena through a series of aristocratic matches , and when he left his fortune estimated by some to have reached a billion dollars to Antenor following his death in 1947 ( as well as his taste for all things French ) , he also left behind a legacy of bigotry borne of his wish to improve his family 's social standing .
20 But having left till the morning when she was due , I could n't even let Cathy know because it puts her in an awkward position , suddenly turn up on the day .
21 No one knew why , though the Dutch gunner Colonel opined that the reason for the Prince 's hasty departure could not have been of great importance , or else the Duke would surely have left with the Prince .
22 ‘ I should have left with the kings and forgotten my home .
23 SOCCER : Harwich and Parkeston manager Martin Head is currently thinking over his future with the Jewson League club , which suggests he will have left by the start of next season.Head says , ‘ Both the club and myself are looking to next season and we are in the middle of talks .
24 The biggest shock in the new round of cuts is that IBM 's forecasting last year was so abysmal that despite the fact that 40,000 people will have left by the end of the year where it was only counting on shedding 20,000 , it still has to make more cuts .
25 The 24-year-old star could have left in the summer but insisted : ‘ I know I made the right decision to stay . ’
26 In support of that Mr. Moses pointed to the surprising , and indeed unlikely , lacunae which this Act would have left in the field of interference with computers if the construction for which Mr. Lassman contends were correct .
27 An official closure date for the yard has not been announced , but the majority of the 500 workers are expected to have left towards the end of July , with the bulk going after this month 's commissioning ceremony .
28 If for any reason the plaintiff was unable to come at the time fixed for his hearing , he became ‘ non-suited ’ , and the man he hoped to sue could collect the deposit he had left with the clerk on starting the action .
29 Mrs had got home in her jeep with just chauffeur and one extra bodyguard , defying the pleas of the other wives , some half an hour after Kaptan and I had left with the Corporal , but she had n't been able to get the Colonel on the military net for nearly two hours after that .
30 When the intensive questioning was at last over , fitzAlan had left with the other men , looking as stern and thoughtful as the dour Fleming commander .
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