Example sentences of "left [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | But it is a little unusual for there to be more than one left in at this stage . |
2 | He still left home at eight each morning , but he did n't head for the office , he wandered round town , visiting anywhere that was free such as the library , or even the museums ; the guides came to know him , one even greeted him when he entered . |
3 | He described how it felt to discover he was an illegitimate child , when his mother called him a bastard ; how he left home at 14 to find work in the Durham coalfields — hating his parents , hating the world , ripe for enlistment in the class struggle . |
4 | Willem Van Leer was born in Amsterdam on May 29 1913 and left home at 18 — ‘ a remittance man , ’ as he put it , ‘ without a remittance ’ . |
5 | Jean left home at 16 and went to live with a friend . |
6 | When I first left home at 17 , I was a lot bigger because I used to eat loads of junk food . |
7 | Many young people with the encouragement of their parents , left home at this time to avoid these responsibilities . |
8 | We left home at half past nine . |
9 | Penny left home at 15 and married at 18 , having a baby quickly — and after what she says was a fairly happy period of her life , she began to go downhill fast . |
10 | I left home at 15 to become a footballer , she was really proud of me ; she encouraged me to go but I know she wanted me at home . |
11 | ‘ I left home at twenty-one . |
12 | Even if we left here at six we would n't get a table . |
13 | We left here at half past five . |
14 | We left here at half past five . |
15 | We left here at half past eight and we did n't get on the dance floor till twenty to ten cos there was three |