Example sentences of "he left the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mind you , 'e 's not bin the same since 'e left the yard . |
| 2 | I 've been told he left the accountancy firm where he worked , and that he 's joined his uncle , Matthew Wilder , who owns a back-country property between Napier and Taupo . |
| 3 | But before he left the policeman peered round the walls and noticed other equally frank nudes . |
| 4 | He left the Incident Room and walked up the steep alley to Lady Street , into the usual morning clutter of delivery vans and pedestrians . |
| 5 | He began to whistle a tune that had been dancing through his head ever since he left the pub : |
| 6 | Later that day , when he left the gardens to walk by the river , alone , a small figure appeared from the bushes beside the path . |
| 7 | As he left the dance , he noticed Tess , who seemed a little sad that he had not chosen her . |
| 8 | When he left the apartment Maidstone was snoring . |
| 9 | She was still lying on the carpet five minutes later when he left the apartment . |
| 10 | By the time he left the apartment , it was raining . |
| 11 | He left the apartment in the morning . |
| 12 | ‘ He left the apartment this morning — ’ |
| 13 | He left the building as usual , his battered and bulging briefcase under his arm . |
| 14 | ‘ Maybe he left the terminals loose ? ’ |
| 15 | He left the University for Harwell in 1955 . |
| 16 | He was educated at Eton and Peterhouse , Cambridge ; he left the university without a degree . |
| 17 | He left the day Napoleon and Victor Emmanuel entered Milan in triumph . |
| 18 | He left the way he had come . |
| 19 | He left the village school at the age of eleven , and helped his father in farming and sawing timber . |
| 20 | As he left the village he passed the field where he had first seen Tess at the dance . |
| 21 | He left the sea , crossed the Villa Comunale and headed off inland . |
| 22 | He left the sea and became an engineer with Brown Brothers at Bonnington Toll where he worked night shift for 3 years . |
| 23 | There were a few areas of welcome grassland like the one that rose ahead of him almost as soon as he left the Park behind . |
| 24 | In his first public speech after he left the Marines , in May 1988 , he painted a picture of the people his audience should keep in mind if they were tempted to think that the Soviet Union was changing : children huddled in the Gulags , dock-workers in Poland , and contras . |
| 25 | ‘ Organise routine urine tests , Nurse Avery , ’ he called back as he left the cubicles . |
| 26 | He left the toffees on the table , not wanting to have to wait through five minutes of loud chewing between replies . |
| 27 | He left the desk and strode to the machine , manipulating it himself , almost as if he suspected she would refuse to do so . |
| 28 | He had been there since he left the Pit a year earlier and Tom had spent a week or so with him back in February . |
| 29 | Hoving proved his own worst enemy , and eventually his taste for the tinsel and show of the art world overtook whatever feeling he had for the art itself , and he left the museum after his cherished Arts Communication Center ( to be funded by Walter Annenberg , with Hoving as its head ) , a nebulous film-studio-cum-information centre to be built in gallery space reserved for the European decorative arts department , was dissolved after much local criticism . |
| 30 | Just then he had another preoccupation , and he left the compilation and editing of the issue to Sebastian and Tina Jorgensen , and to the new arrival from Australia , Jim Anderson . |