Example sentences of "left [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They left Queenstown at 7 in the morning and were n't back till 2pm — high as kites ! |
| 2 | After allowing passengers a short time at Barmouth , the engines were exchanged and 75069 , hauling the London train , left at 1530 , crossed the local in Tywyn at 1600 , left Tywyn at 1620 , arrived Machynlleth at 1650 and departed at 1716 , on its way to Shrewsbury . |
| 3 | They left Aberdeen at eight o'clock on the morning of Tuesday , 24 August , and , climbing to high ground above the city , headed north-east along the coast through insignificant country — ‘ naked ’ , observed Johnson , ‘ of all vegetable decoration ’ . |
| 4 | The first of the 10 special East German Reichsbahn trains finally left Prague at 5.30 local time , almost 24 hours late , reflecting the difficulties encountered by the East Germans in clearing the tracks . |
| 5 | We left Austria at six thirty pm on the ninth of April . |
| 6 | Next stop , the boat to Skye from Glenelg , and after an early breakfast , they left Anoch at eight o'clock . |
| 7 | It was revealed also by the R.A.F. that when Leslie 's plane left Fairford at 23.20 hours on 17 June it had a glider in tow . |
| 8 | We left Musselburgh at 14:00 , drove to the Premier Brands complex in Moreton and spent a pleasant evening in their social club before retiring to our hotel . |
| 9 | got home late last night — left N. at 2.30 which was 1.30pm our time and then got , just — with literally only about four minutes to spare once he had rung me , the 6pm train from Kings Cross . |
| 10 | Fifty Britons left Heathrow at 6 pm on Sunday for Karachi . |
| 11 | You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice . |
| 12 | Apart from the youngest , all my sisters left school at sixteen or so and got married shortly afterwards , whereas I went on to university . |
| 13 | I left school at sixteen — a job in a publishing company came through the school employment system and that was it . |
| 14 | He left school at sixteen and immersed himself in the Labour Party , canvassing for the 1966 general election . |
| 15 | Jim left school at sixteen , joined a Y T S scheme , years ago , with an electrics company . |
| 16 | Left school at 17 when she got pregnant , married , now separated , with two kids . |
| 17 | So when I left school at 17 to become a hairdresser , I was lovely and slim . |
| 18 | He was an ecologist of international significance , widely acknowledged — indeed revered — as the pre-eminent British field botanist of his time , and his prowess was the more remarkable given that he was born , blind in one eye , into a poor Welsh family , that he left school at 14 , and that he spent the first 33 years of his working life as a North Wales quarryman . |
| 19 | But it also meant that when I left school at 14 it was not possible to think about finding a job or life away from the farm . |
| 20 | Cook left school at 14 to become an apprentice , got involved with radar and electronics during National Service , and graduated from Queen Mary College , London . |
| 21 | The young Haworth left school at 14 to work in the factory and was required to pick up a knowledge of dyestuffs . |
| 22 | When I left school at 14 , I was beginning to feel strange urges within me — an awakening of manhood , a desire to assert myself as an adult , a different feeling towards girls , especially when they would touch me on the body . |
| 23 | Adventure and possibility lay before them , as they had not lain before Liz 's sister Shirley , who married at nineteen and stayed on in Northam , or before Dora Sutcliffe who left school at fifteen and sold sweets in Woolworth 's until she married Shirley 's husband 's brother Steve . |
| 24 | ONE OF FIVE children who father , a bookie , died young , Lenny McLean grew up in one of the tougher parts of London 's East End , left school at fifteen and , as a young man , started to make a few quid in the unlicensed boxing matches which were becoming increasingly popular at the time . |
| 25 | But Shirley Millings , who left school at fifteen , did n't think like this . |
| 26 | I left school at fifteen years of age . |
| 27 | She left school at fourteen . |
| 28 | I think we forget , in these days , that in the Thirties a young person left school at fourteen , and in many cases , went straight to a job . |
| 29 | Both left school at fourteen : my father to work as a butcher 's messenger boy , my mother to learn machining in a shirt factory . |
| 30 | Norman , who left school at fourteen , did around a year as a plumber 's mate before running away from home and working on a Norwegian ship bound for Persia . |