Example sentences of "left the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said Tania , 28 , was in ‘ a very distressed state ’ when she left the matrimonial home around midnight . |
| 2 | The husband left the matrimonial home in 1990 to live with the other woman . |
| 3 | The father left the matrimonial home at the end of April 1990 . |
| 4 | He threw the thing away , brushed his fingers and left the blackened ruin . |
| 5 | LEFT The red-tailed buzzard that I 've started training recently , eating the leg of a rabbit . |
| 6 | In January 1991 a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer ( FTIR ) was installed at the Arrival Heights laboratory to measure HNO 3 in absorption , and in particular to observe the behaviour of the nitric acid column in autumn as the Sun left the polar cap . |
| 7 | Left The uneven struggle to read a newspaper on a train dates from the early days of rail travel . |
| 8 | And got heavier as they left the small station and straggled down a steep , cinder path . |
| 9 | Before they left the Irish capital , they told how pure joy replaced unbearable anguish when they learned their little girl had been found safe . |
| 10 | Meanwhile Jansher Khan , the new world champion who had his $15,000 prize money withheld because he left the official dinner early , may have lost his chance of taking over as world No. 1 . |
| 11 | The movement of the city centre to the grands boulevards and the Bourse left the absolute majority of workers still in their quartier , and most of the quartiers still remained . |
| 12 | A detective told the court the loyalist — 21 years old in 1972 and with his roots in Belfast 's staunchly loyalist Sandy Row area — left the paramilitary organisation after the murder and had shown ‘ genuine remorse ’ . |
| 13 | It spans 36 centuries , from 1600BC to AD1974 — the date of the Turkish invasion which left the ancient city of Famagusta in their hands . |
| 14 | LEFT The finished painting : The Lane at Hanging Houghton |
| 15 | Senator Jaime Guzmán Errázuriz , founder and leader of the right-wing Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) , was shot at point-blank range by two gunmen as he left the Catholic University in Santiago , where he had been giving a law lecture , on April 1 . |
| 16 | The lack of a contingency plan for this eventuality left the all-important Army of Africa , together with its commanders , General Franco and Colonel Yagüe ( who , under Franco 's orders , had been in charge of the Legion during the repression of the Asturian revolutionary movement in 1934 ) , stranded on the far side of the Straits of Gibraltar . |
| 17 | French forces left the integrated command , NATO forces left French soil and the alliance headquarters had to be moved from Fontainebleau to Brussels . |
| 18 | It was then that the ME-10 left the other unit standing . |
| 19 | She left the other kipper for Oliver , but decided that she would wait a bit longer before she went to fetch him . |
| 20 | This left the other vertical , which in this case came flush with the face of the wall . |
| 21 | ’ Applying this to the body of Christ in Cranham , the very week that I finalised the membership of the team and announced it , one couple in the team had a violent row with others and left the new work and also the church . |
| 22 | He left the Montjuic Stadium happy and smiling , sharing a hug with British team manager Joan Allison . |
| 23 | The resolution left the Supreme Council with 170 deputies , and deprived the Equal Rights faction of its parliamentary leader , Sergejs Dimanis . |
| 24 | The band , who recently left the Rough Trade label despite having signed what was rumoured to be the indie label 's largest deal since The Smiths , are set to sign on the dotted line with Chrysalis within the next two weeks . |
| 25 | She left the following year having exhausted all the tuition the school could offer . |
| 26 | Sergeant-Major Barlerin left the following day for Orange , leaving us in the charge of Sergeant-Chef Gibeau for the weekend . |
| 27 | When they left the following day , the eastern end of the park had already begun to fill with tattered bivouacs and shelters of thorn and tarpaulin . |
| 28 | She proceeds to give an illustration relating to Mary , Countess of Northumberland , who , dying in 1572 , left the following comment in her will : ‘ Do not in any wise let me be opened after I am dead . |
| 29 | They left the following month . |
| 30 | Mr Elton — then principal executive director — left the following month . |