Example sentences of "left over [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women were remarking on the window hangings — ‘ You could hang my whole downstairs with one of those red curtains , ’ said Mary McCulloch , ‘ and have a length left over for the beds . ’ |
| 2 | One 's grant disappeared into a bottomless sea of cigarettes and beer with hardly enough left over for the books we were meant to read . |
| 3 | Although Microsoft Corp is currently gorging itself on Intel Corp iAPX-86 platforms with its Windows desktop environment — and Windows NT will follow — there are still expected to be some rich pickings left over for the gaggle of hopefuls which are working on desktop Unix implementations for the architecture , which will soon include the new P5 80586 iteration when it arrives . |
| 4 | That would mean she could buy eggs for supper and pay something on the grocery bill and have enough left over for the vet . |
| 5 | It belonged almost in its entirety to Kenneth Horne , around whom the show was built , but there was enough left over for the supporting players , Betty Marsden , Hugh Paddick , Bill Pertwee and Ken , all of whom built up their own individual following . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We finally realised that even on our meagre sum we could avoid having too much month left over at the end of our money . |
| 9 | ‘ You may take whatever is left over at the end of each day . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We must find some way of ‘ taking out ’ of our calculations that fraction of brain that can be attributed simply to body size , so that we can compare what is left over as the true ‘ braininess ’ of animals . |
| 13 | Right , that looks like the hundred , that 's the sort of left over of the hundred , so it 's just equal to seventy five over a hundred , and you |
| 14 | So in other words we got eight tens left over on the bottom . |
| 15 | There are also signs that FTC could soon sign a deal with the rump of the Football League , those clubs left over after the formation of the new Premier League . |
| 16 | In Russian Central Asia the engines were designed to burn the naphtha left over after the refining of the petroleum from the Central Asian oilfields . |
| 17 | There was enough left over in the 5lb bag to give most of the plot another top dressing last month . |
| 18 | There 's one in the garage I 'm sure there was one left over in the garage . |
| 19 | She found black paint in one of the kitchen cupboards , left over from the time Tom had painted the front door , and a brush . |
| 20 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 21 | In reality , the squabble is more over slogans and symbols left over from the Reagan years than anything substantial . |
| 22 | It is possible the explosives were left over from the Deal attack . |
| 23 | The minds of the other literate villagers were dissipated on what they could pick up in a random manner : most of it naturally consisted of religious tracts , the traditional fodder left over from the past . |
| 24 | It would not be a source of comfort to the hardpressed British public if they were to become aware that ( reckoning our overseas statistics globally not a single bean of substance for themselves or of capital equipment for British manufacturers is likely to be left over from the American credit ; and that we shall require , on balance , the whole of it , and , unless we change our ways , much more to feed and sustain Allies , liberated territories and ex-enemies , to maintain our military prestige overseas , and , generally speaking to cut a dash in the world considerably above our means . |
| 25 | ‘ We need to face the frustrations left over from the second world war ’ , he says . |
| 26 | Teams of officials from Britain , Hong Kong and China had spent five days haggling over the many points of disagreement left over from the visit of Douglas Hurd , the British foreign secretary , to China last month . |
| 27 | It 's left over from the War . |
| 28 | Yet the magical city had not yet finished with me , for I somehow found myself in a dark little wood-panelled bar , with a cosy snug in the rear , and a counter near the door left over from the pub 's grocery-bar days at the turn of the century . |
| 29 | The paths would be made from bricks left over from the building of the house ; the little hedges , not more than twelve inches in height , would be box , and spaces large enough to accommodate blooms would be devoted to arum lilies ; the others to gravel . |
| 30 | Just sometimes , this one had crimson nails , left over from the other , who wore a tight black skirt and a black jacket with padded shoulders over a pink silk shirt and was carefully made up with pink and brown eyeshadow , brushed blusher along the cheekbone and plummy lips . |