Example sentences of "they left [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before they left at the end of their week , Alastair and Stuart presented them with Scottish Nuclear baseball caps and T-shirts . |
| 2 | Then they left for the 13-mile drive to their luxurious home at Corston , near Bath . |
| 3 | Alternatively , he could always have chatted up one of the drivers of Middleton & Co. 's waggon , asking if there was a bit of spare room for an extra body when they left for the King 's Arms in Holborn on a Sunday evening or a Monday morning . |
| 4 | It was won by the Cheshire Youth Orchestra , who were in jubilant mood as they left for the journey home . |
| 5 | At 3.30am the following day they left for the summit , Wanda climbing slowly by herself while Carlos , who was going well , reached the summit at 5pm . |
| 6 | This too , they left until the end of the meeting in er , in part two . |
| 7 | Maybe they left by the tunnel he was on about … well , maybe Brett coulda gotten out that way too … ’ |
| 8 | Moran gave them a pound , Rose took a red ten-shilling note from her handbag and they left in the same whirl as they had entered , dancing and singing all the way out to the lorry . |
| 9 | They left in the early morning , swishing through the wet grass on the valley floor , then climbing steeply into the thick of the mist and cloud . |
| 10 | They founded a little Punjab through whose gates they left in the morning and returned in the evening , glad to be back among their own kind . |
| 11 | They left in the utility a short time after darkness had fallen , and although little was said as they drove along the narrow , rough country road , Lucy felt that the silences between them were companionable . |
| 12 | He kicked his horse with a small , angry sense of mourning and followed Bicker as they made their way out of the square to the gates of the Rorim ; felt the wind rasp his face as they left behind the shelter of the buildings . |
| 13 | They left behind the pot-bellied shearer who had played him previously . |
| 14 | It was just the two of them left in the pub . |
| 15 | It was as though everyone else in the little hall — Mr Sands , the curious spectators , Havvie 's party — did not exist — only the three of them left in the world . |