Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] leave [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a point of interest , our branch also collects used English and foreign stamps , while any foreign coins left over from your holidays would be welcome , too ! |
| 2 | You are faced with half a packet of dusty dried peas , the unopened naan bread mix that seemed such a good idea at the time and the smoked oysters left over from last year 's Christmas hamper . |
| 3 | Then I imagined Lewis , boots tied round his neck , for some reason suddenly resembling Shane MacGowan , skinning her jeans off , not me , and he turned into Rodney Ritchie , at home with his parents , unpicking the individual stitches of her jeans with a tiny knife , and the Ritchies all wore badly-fitting jeans and had denim curtains and denim carpets and denim light shades and denim wallpaper with the little rivets left on like poppers so you could just press paintings and photos onto the wall … except that Mr Ritchie looked like Claude Levi-Strauss , which is when I think I started to get confused . |
| 4 | There were nights when stone hot-water bottles left out on the floor froze solid . |
| 5 | All of this means that in the past year Schnabel has applied paint and might one hope quality thought time ? to an area as big as a standard tennis court with 400 square feet left over . |
| 6 | Although Microsoft Corp is currently gorging itself on Intel Corp iAPX-86 platforms with its Windows desktop environment — and Windows NT will follow — there are still expected to be some rich pickings left over for the gaggle of hopefuls which are working on desktop Unix implementations for the architecture , which will soon include the new P5 80586 iteration when it arrives . |
| 7 | Er we 've got a little few earmarked funds left over like for instance , Theakston 's Brewery gave us the barrels and they gave us two and a half thousand pounds . |
| 8 | Realising that the Australians were not so foolish as to engage in pitched battles , whatever their masters decreed , the Japanese sent a picked force of guerrilla fighters to take up the chase where the major columns left off . |
| 9 | If the new motherboard is smaller then you will have some mounting pillars left over — keep them safe . |
| 10 | Christianity thus begins where all other faiths leave off . |
| 11 | The other gypsies leave off dancing to come to the aid of their companions . |
| 12 | In the discussion about the exercise of governors ' powers , the headteacher was usually brought in but other teachers left out . |
| 13 | All them dirty nappies left about . |
| 14 | The above approach to the distribution of power inside local authorities leaves out of account the increasing influence of central government departments upon local authorities in crucial areas , notably finance ( see Dunleavy and Rhodes , 1987 ) . |
| 15 | So far the autumn had brought gales soft bright days left over from summer misty still days , windy showery ones and now a fine drizzle . |
| 16 | They were the original fittings left over from the beginning of the century which the Diocesan Parsonage Committee had yet to get around to modernising . |
| 17 | Often so much fuss is made of the mother-to-be that the father-to-be feels left out . |