Example sentences of "left [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , because she could n't bear to quarrel with him the night before she left for a new life , she said , ‘ I 'm wearing your mother 's brooch , Fran . |
| 2 | At the beginning of August he left for a two and a half months ' rest at sequestered Welsh and English houses . |
| 3 | The library created by Aby Warburg in Hamburg left for a safe haven in London in 1933 , accompanied by its custodians and future directors Fritz Saxl and Gertrud Bing . |
| 4 | When Mellor found out he was surplus to requirements in London , he left for a Mediterranean sea trip with his hosts aboard the count 's 30ft cruiser , Fidelity . |
| 5 | On I May he left for a Mediterranean cruise in the vain hope that this might cause an improvement . |
| 6 | He left for a light supper with Butch and Caduta at the Cicero . |
| 7 | He left for a few years to manage a national school , independent of the British system , but returned to read law . |
| 8 | As she left for the first night party , she just had time to tell us what she thought : |
| 9 | I had my ideas worked out by the time I left for the 1960–61 Tasman series , and on the 24-hour flight to New Zealand I sat with a slide rule and drew the car as a pin-jointed structure , stressed it and arrived at all the tube sizes . ’ |
| 10 | Once again Philip Yale Drew left for the Great Western Hotel surrounded by wellwishers and admirers . |
| 11 | Then they left for the 13-mile drive to their luxurious home at Corston , near Bath . |
| 12 | The poor little rich boy was looked after by a second mother in the person of strict Ilse , from Germany : this did a great deal , but not enough , to relieve the isolation he felt — which , as his researches disclosed , was to be a factor in the isolation and rejection suffered in turn by his younger brother , who also left for the Mediterranean . |
| 13 | Thereafter the relationship became steadily more strained and he left during the 1978 season . |
| 14 | Fall down and go right on the dodgems , go up and right through the wall , go down and collect the scroll , go up and push the crate right off the platform , fall down and push the crate left off the platform , fall down and push the crate right off the platform , push it left off the next platform , then right and left twice , jump on the big wheel on your right , jump off and at the bottom of the screen go right , collect the arrow , go left and up , go right and climb up on the platforms , go left and collect the star , fly right , up and right , push the crate right off the platform , push it left onto the button , go left , down and collect the star . |
| 15 | Chief Officer Mason left as a Corporal motor-cyclist in 1914 and returned as a Major in 1919 . |
| 16 | The Cheltenham course was one he completed to the College 's satisfaction , and as he left as a qualified master his first thought was to return home to North London , at least for the time being . |
| 17 | She apparently left through an unlocked door . |
| 18 | I hoped she would n't make a big production out of the delivery upstairs , but just in case she did I thought I would n't go anywhere where she could see me and point me out to any of the owners , so I left through the front exit gates and found the actors ' bus with its Mystery Race Train banner and faded inside into the reassembling troupe . |
| 19 | Then with a couple of brief nods at them both , he crossed the saloon and left through the other double doors . |
| 20 | He left after a few days as I said . |
| 21 | She left after a few months and had a home tutor . |
| 22 | When Bonnie Prince Charlie left after a brief visit during his march on England in 1745 , the Earl of Traquair vowed that the resplendent Bear Gates ( the ‘ Steekit Yetts ’ ) should not be opened again until the Stuarts were restored to the throne . |
| 23 | To encourage them to go back , the US and Britain left behind a rapid-strike force , to be stationed just inside the Turkish border , which would sock it to Saddam if he dared resume anti-Kurd aggression . |
| 24 | Whereas the priests told him that he must die and would go either to heaven or to hell , the singers of songs told him that , though he must die , his name need not and that it was up to him whether he left behind a good or an evil reputation . |
| 25 | In Dayton he left behind a riskier life . |
| 26 | We have hundreds of testimonies from escapees who left behind a nice flat , two cars , country cottages , yachts … |
| 27 | Instead , he left behind a potent series of myths — the rock ‘ n ’ roll rebel , the sensitive poet , the sexual athlete , the Lizard King — and a body of work that would influence musicians who had n't even been born when their hero was buried and his gravestone gained its first layer of graffiti in Pére Lachaise cemetery . |
| 28 | As director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven until 1987 ( the year he was appointed to the Gemeentemuseum ) , he left behind a sizeable financial deficit , caused by overspending on buying modern art and on travel expenses . |
| 29 | He consolidated the economic and political base of the Nemanjić dynasty , and when he died in 1227 he left behind a secure and well-organised state which was able to survive both the external pressures from the rising power of the revived Bulgarian empire and the internal quarrels of the subordinate Serbian županates . |
| 30 | Mrs Godwin left behind a little girl Sophie , who was two in January . |