Example sentences of "what [be] leave [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course I have , been giving it a what we 've had , like when the kids did n't eat their dinner or we ai n't eat all our dinner been giving it what 's left on the plate , well |
| 2 | After all , these guys are no part of my battle , most of them do n't know me , and they 've turned out in numbers only because Rufus said they had to defend their territory — but I decide this ai n't the time for that , and it would make more sense to invite these gift-horses in for coffee and what 's left of the whisky . |
| 3 | Take what 's left of the whisky then . |
| 4 | Their cattle are finished : they made the last batch of bread with oxblood to save what 's left of the water , and they drink that mixed with wine , of which there is n't all that much , either . |
| 5 | ‘ I must go and do my duty as a host for what 's left of the night . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Then we can spend what 's left of the night discussing the lousy weather with them , ’ was the disagreeable reply to this nervous question . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , ’ he continues , clearing up what 's left of the cheese and pineapple sticks . |
| 8 | ‘ Now the important thing is to get the ball rolling and protect what 's left of the desert . ’ |
| 9 | Staying on the coastal highway , you come in turn to what 's left of the cities of Philadelphia , Baltimore and Washington DC . |
| 10 | Hewlett-Packard meanwhile is downsizing , if not shutting down , what 's left of the graphics group and workstation operation it has at its Fort Collins facility in Colorado . |
| 11 | Low interest rates have reduced the return on what 's left of the pension funds , and the pensioners say their future looks bleaker than ever . |
| 12 | ‘ If you start out now , ’ said Grimma , ‘ you should all be able to get to the barn , even through what 's left of the snow . |
| 13 | Craig : Perhaps you could just lose what 's left of the book , forget about it . |
| 14 | I do n't suppose you looked at what 's left of the lettering on the reverse . |
| 15 | and hung a college scarf on what 's left of the mast . |
| 16 | What 's left of the town is full of soldiers and Flemish mercenaries … |
| 17 | ‘ Now then , Delia , ’ brisk , all at once , ‘ when dealing with Wills the law provides a floor on what 's left to a wife . |
| 18 | There 's now a shortfall of more than fifty million pounds in their pension schemes because falling interest rates are undermining what 's left in the fund . |
| 19 | The breakthrough was inspired by belated realisation on the part of Pretoria and the ANC that unless they made rapid progress what is left of the South African economy would be wrecked . |
| 20 | Indeed , mere preservation is no longer thought to require justification ; every local history society thinks it has an unanswerable case when it seeks to protect what is left of the past . |
| 21 | Today no-one — with the possible exception of members of his family - seriously believes that Wallenberg is still alive somewhere in what is left of the Gulag Archipelago , four and a half years into perestroika . |
| 22 | The storm rages through what is left of the night . |
| 23 | Doubly fortunate is the journalist who can within 24 hours leave Beirut and look upon what is left of the world Damiani lost on that April day when the Argentina sailed out of Jaffa harbour for Beirut , carrying his family from Palestine for the last time . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , such discovery is often of limited value , since by the time the site is recognized and reported , it is usually more than half destroyed : in most cases , there is little time for archaeologists to salvage information from what is left of the site . |
| 25 | A collapsing housing market could bring what is left of the economy crashing down . |
| 26 | Since it has never been allowed to develop any outlets , what is left of the economy would collapse . |
| 27 | Meanwhile the owners or their descendants champ impatiently to recover and lovingly restore what is left of the family heritage . |
| 28 | In practice , the free press is not a " free " press : it is what is left of the copy by laws and by lawyers . |
| 29 | Unhappily now we are older it has all disappeared , and we must fight again just to retain the few rights we still have , such as state pensions and what is left of the health service . |
| 30 | That price is too high and it may be destroying what is left of the game . |