Example sentences of "left [adv] at the " in BNC.

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1 And then , terribly pleased with that demonstration , the anthropologist goes on to try to fit in everything : and a good anthropologist is one who completes the picture and appears to have no pieces left over at the end .
2 This is because it carries out a unique function within the nuclear industry : it tries to deal with the problems left over at the end .
3 We finally realised that even on our meagre sum we could avoid having too much month left over at the end of our money .
4 ‘ You may take whatever is left over at the end of each day .
5 It is therefore particularly fitting that it is a charity associated with the teaching profession hat takes some of the books left over at the end of the sale to ‘ sent to countries in dire need ’ , as Lewis Romanis , former Headmaster of Boroughmuir School , put it in his gracious thank-you letter .
6 Yeah I mean if you get erm , I 'll tell you what actually , because it 's a two hour slot I can in one slot get them to y'know and th we 're not in a great hurry cos there 's usually a few spaces left over at the end of the term .
7 ‘ I had n't quite seen it like that , ’ McLeish acknowledged humbly , remembering that the beautiful woman in front of him , whom you could not suppose ever to have encountered rejection in any form , had lost a father when young , and had been so little attached to her stepfather that she had left home at the earliest opportunity .
8 Laura , a far more quiet and serious character than her cousin , had left home at the same time for Cambridge University , to read economics .
9 His partnership with Dean Hodgson , disappointed to be left out at the start , could develop into a reassuring one .
10 Last season 's top scorer Mark Bright returned to the attack , after being left out at the start of the season , to hit two goals in as many games and clear the way for Warhurst to finally go , especially with England Under-21 striker Chris Bart-Williams also pressing for a starting spot .
11 He was forced to pack up his career as Charlton 's left back at the age of 20 .
12 They can multiply faster than the chromosomes , because , when they do move , a copy is left behind at the old site as well as a new copy appearing at the new one .
13 Morar is left behind at the watershed and the district of Lochaber entered .
14 Marius had confessed that he had crippled a Turkish immigrant in Stockholm and Alex was told the registration number of the Land Rover he had left behind at the German frontier when he had deserted .
15 I 'd also like a sample of his blood and hair to be left here at the Lab .
16 The pension has been transferred to the Legal and General and has been left there at the present time to grow and be managed .
17 If it is left completely at the level of the unconscious , most of us will muddle through its manifestations .
18 ‘ Then it 's left again at the next crossroads and we 're there . ’
19 I was left cruelly at the mercy of the ‘ sames ’ : a different in the middle of identicals .
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