Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] leave the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jinkwa had left the command vehicle under the control of the Environments Officer and ventured forth in a scouting party with two of his troopers . |
| 2 | Dr Neil had left the kitchen , to finish his toilet , presumably . |
| 3 | Travis had left the door open — she seized her chance , and was through it like a shot . |
| 4 | Like so many others , by this time Millend had left the cloth trade and , in this case , been turned over to corn and saw milling . |
| 5 | By February 1187 at the latest , however , Richard had left the south and was in Normandy to welcome his father on his arrival from England . |
| 6 | South Carolina threatened to leave the United States in the , in the eighteen thirties and ultimately er in , in the eighteen sixties it did so and er it was followed by a number of other states , the so called confederate states . |
| 7 | And by the time Cornelius had left the playground and taken to the street , his feet were up and the cigarettes were out . |
| 8 | Lock forward Bayfield had to leave the pitch while playing for Northampton after suffering an asthma attack . |
| 9 | They had then returned to Weymouth and diverted to the crematorium , where Heather had left the car just long enough to take a photograph . |
| 10 | George Rudd was on tour ; Michael Lamonte , according to his lady friend , was filming at Pinewood ; Berenson had left the business for school-teaching and was n't about to throw it up , thank you , for all the tea in China , and did Meredith realise it was gone midnight ? |
| 11 | Barthes managed to leave the great works of literature intact . |
| 12 | The police , however , still needed proof that Thom had left the country with Eva before issuing a warrant . |
| 13 | ‘ What she means , ’ Ruth said pertly when Mrs Longhill had left the kitchen , ‘ is that her servants must keep up the standards ! ’ |
| 14 | A goalless first leg at Hillsborough had left the whiff of an upset mingling with the burgers and Bovril , but Wednesday cleared the air ruthlessly with four first-half goals in the space of 23 minutes . |
| 15 | Once Frank Connor had left the certainties of life in County Limerick , he always seemed like an actor who had wandered into the wrong play . |
| 16 | Sergeant Bird entered the library bearing a laden tray minutes after Anthea Darnell had left the room . |
| 17 | There was a rich and spicy smell ; Helen had left the dinner in the oven . |
| 18 | She waited for his reply , but Stephen had left the room and was going upstairs . |
| 19 | Alexandra came down the steps in her new green clothes , under which she had managed to put her old comfortable corset when Lyddy had left the room to polish her boots , wearing a smile that was partly triumph at her illicit comfort and partly the satisfaction of having taken five hens ' and four pullets ' eggs to Dora in a little rush basket that very morning . |
| 20 | Clarissa promised to leave the front door on the latch and pointed to the ceiling . |
| 21 | Swinton believed that the UK had left the conference on good ground because US demands had been so unlimited . |
| 22 | A neighbour who often did shopping for the Lennons had left the semi-detached in Heyford Road , Marsh Green , on the outskirts of Wigan , only a few minutes earlier . |
| 23 | The last Pershing 2 missiles had left Germany on March 13 and the last cruise missiles in the United Kingdom had left the USAF base at Greenham Common on March 5 . |
| 24 | Rose wanted to leave the washing-up for morning but the girls insisted on getting it over with . |
| 25 | Last night a furious Mrs Rorstad vowed to leave the town , saying : ‘ I 'm going to quit this place as soon as my house is sold . |
| 26 | It was only twenty-four hours after Gabriel had left the farm that three men came running to report a disaster to Bathsheba . |
| 27 | Dysart had left the chair again , this time to stand by the window , gazing out at the view which had met Harry 's bleary eyes every morning of his childhood . |
| 28 | Ahmed had to leave the job after a raid by an employment inspection team . |
| 29 | Connon had left the Club early , he remembered , saying he was going home . |
| 30 | McCann stood to the side until Reginald had left the room ; he then put the chairs back in place , puffed up the feather cushions on the chesterfield , rearranged the small tables , swept the ash from around the hearth , brought a straight iron fireguard and placed it before the fire . |