Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] leave over " in BNC.

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1 Only occasionally does the account seem like a patchwork of notes left over from his editorship of the last three volumes of Newton 's Correspondence .
2 I like to have a lot of vegetables left over .
3 When there were still twenty square miles of maps left over after all the available floor was used up , she created a curtained alcove into which the jigsaw could extend .
4 Having recognised the " main point " in a chapter/ paragraph you will not fail to notice that there are an awful lot of words left over !
5 do is we 'll get rid of those couple of things left over
6 All sorts of bits left over from Ladymont days .
7 Has you got lots of bits left over ?
8 After a meagre supper of beans left over from the orderlies ' meal , Pétain slept , huddled in an armchair .
9 ‘ Me ma made this with bits left over when she took in sewing .
10 The paths would be made from bricks left over from the building of the house ; the little hedges , not more than twelve inches in height , would be box , and spaces large enough to accommodate blooms would be devoted to arum lilies ; the others to gravel .
11 In practice , however , export-led growth in Europe is likely to be overwhelmed by problems left over from the late-1980s boom — especially the sharp rise in public-sector deficits between 1989 and 1993 ( chart 2 ) .
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