Example sentences of "left [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gatting made the point that they had to win the final two games as after so much cricket they simply did not have the strength left for a third . |
| 2 | Jerking the trigger instead of squeezing it with a steady pressure , meant the gun muzzle being pulled slightly down and left for the first shot . |
| 3 | Charles was left for the first time to conduct his own strategy in Aquitaine , no doubt with Judith to help him . |
| 4 | An eerie silence descended over the house as the lorry left for the next house . |
| 5 | Because of Berkeley 's criticisms of them , Locke 's views on language and abstract ideas , views which were implicit in the discussion of nominal essences , are best left for the next chapter . |
| 6 | The girl who has reached the human being in Raskolnikov the murderer is left for the last time by Svidrigailov ‘ bewildered and frightened , and filled with vague and oppressive suspicions ’ . |
| 7 | But today belonged to the Buccaneers — with a final cheer as the planes left for the last time . |
| 8 | When the crowds had left after the second home match , Chapman met the helpers in the stand and asked them to take him on trust , asserting that the changes were in the club 's interest . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | At the inquiry , called by the stewards after Willie Carson had driven Iywaan home along the rail , Eddery explained that Alhamad had been hanging badly left throughout the last half-mile . |
| 11 | For example available information was not being sent ; there was reluctance to put certain items in writing ; telephone messages left with a third party could be distorted ; there was incomplete information ; there was a lack of feedback . |
| 12 | But in a situation where we were left with the second E I P and we had districts preparing district wide plans and as Mr in his submission has said , he intends to remove the present article fourteen , direction , we are in real chaos . |
| 13 | ‘ At my grammar school , over 60% of the students left before the sixth form . |
| 14 | Rangers ' selection for Brugge will , under the circumstances , be left until the last moment . |
| 15 | The Bootle Times wanted us to put them up again for a photograph , and they were left until the next day because it was raining . ’ |
| 16 | She had no energy to swim in the water and pull herself out on the small strip of toilet paper left from the last flushing of the toilet . |
| 17 | The group — all males — were wearing either knee-length shirts or what looked like the jackets and trousers left from the last church jumble sale . |
| 18 | Who 's left from the last band and who are the new members ? |
| 19 | Well if you go back in time if you go back if you go forward in time say twenty years you wo n't have anybody left from the last world war will you ? |
| 20 | Unfortunately , after the Romans left in the 4th century , very little is known of the inhabitants of the area until the arrival of the Normans in the 11th century . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | All the same , watching the thin , lemon beam of sun catch across the postman 's bicycle bars , she let herself think it unfair that her dear friend , Faith Lavender , should have died so suddenly and so much younger than the husk of a woman left in the next room . |
| 23 | But there was an element of luck in yesterday 's performances because the British crews decided to defy political reality by going hard left on the first beat and were pleasantly rewarded by a massive windshift in their favour . |
| 24 | Corresponding in their insignificance to the islets of the sea , two small clumps of trees , one on each side of the only fault in the impeccable joint , marked the mouth of the river Meinam we had just left on the first preparatory stage of our homeward journey ; and , far back on the inland level , a larger and loftier mass , the grove surrounding the great Paknam pagoda , was the only thing on which the eye could rest from the vain task of exploring the monotonous sweep of the horizon ( 4 ) . |
| 25 | She came as night-nurse on the second of May when I had a bad attack of sciatica and left on the fourteenth of June . |
| 26 | The cursor is left on the last instance found , if the search was successful , or where it started if the search failed . |
| 27 | The track continues west along the edge of the escarpment before turning left to the first of many little lakes — Parabaun . |
| 28 | Continue left to the second lift . |
| 29 | In fulfilment of this agreement a huge force , variously put at 15,000 and 30,000 men , had been assembled between Dunkirk and Boulogne , to follow up any initial success in a landing on the south or east coast , though the final choice of destination was to be left to the last moment , being largely dependent on the wind . |
| 30 | Sub pose she was left to the last ! |