Example sentences of "left his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One mark of pride in this ‘ art , mystery and manual occupation ’ is the ‘ signed binding ’ , i.e. one on which the binder has left his recognisable mark . |
| 2 | He had left his outer clothes downstairs and he wore his cheap Latvian suit with its wide trouser bottoms as though it was from Savile Row . |
| 3 | He had left his young Queen at Bamborough apparently . |
| 4 | Therefore a passenger jumping off a moving bus and injuring himself would bring the motor vehicle within this section , but not generally where a driver has left his stationary motor vehicle parked on a road . |
| 5 | A paralysed economy at home , and the substitution of pragmatism for ideology by most Africans , has left his international brigades without a role , having lost ( by their own admission ) more than 2,000 dead . |
| 6 | We were proud to welcome Wayne C. Fairbrother who survived after 188 days wandering round a Birmingham multi-storey car park trying to remember where he had left his blue Sierra . |
| 7 | Funnily enough , Mr Goodfellow now finds himself in a similar situation to the late Leo Fender , having left his original company bearing his name ( now owned as a registered trademark by Lowden ) . |
| 8 | Two hours later , the body has drifted far downstream , finally getting wedged at the top of the weir in Parson 's Pleasure — the place where the careless Howard Brown had earlier left his yellow programme — and his continental seven … |
| 9 | His work had taken him from London to the Arunta , from Boston Brahmins to Buddhist scriptures ; he too was an explorer who had left his native home . |
| 10 | Although he had left his native Scotland as a boy his voice still contained traces of his Celtic background . |
| 11 | Gelon of Syracuse had left his younger brother Hiero in charge of Gela . |
| 12 | Of many cup-painters the greatest , perhaps , with Onesimos , is one who worked regularly with a potter Brygos but has not left his own name , so the Brygos Painter . |
| 13 | But the mere fact that he 'd left his own bed to come and check on her made her feel warm and cherished and oddly weepy . |
| 14 | Fleury urgently pointed out the sepoy to Ram ; he had left his own rifle inside the hall . |
| 15 | During the twenty-mile drive , once he had left his own estate , he had kept his mind fixed on the goal of his errand , and what came in between went unremarked . |
| 16 | A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously . |
| 17 | It turned out that Dana had simply left his old motor bike on the quayside before embarking on the ship . |
| 18 | His anger barely contained , like a storm in a bottle , Joe walked the distance back to where he 'd left his rented car . |
| 19 | He had left his electric shaver behind , he explained , and had had trouble with the disposable Gillettes he had bought at the hotel shop . |
| 20 | The difficulties that a Martian or child might have with such a system are neatly illustrated in the following Yiddish story : A melamed [ Hebrew teacher ] discovering that he had left his comfortable slippers back in the house , sent a student after them with a note for his wife . |