Example sentences of "left [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The word had not been there when she left that morning .
2 I suppose I can not complain , the wine was scrounged from the Officers quarters at Brigade H.Q just before we left that area .
3 We left that problem for the Bishop to wrestle with .
4 It is possible to approximate the time that she left that job .
5 They left that area behind and entered a partitioned , quieter section .
6 She was born , and christened Roberta Anne Penrose , in Melbourne , Australia , nearly thirty-three years ago , but left that country at the age of five to accompany her parents to England .
7 At first he left that aspect of the practice to David Bryce , his partner from the early 1840s , and then , after his move to Stratton Street , London in 1844 , finally abandoned it altogether to concentrate exclusively on country houses .
8 You are not the same people who left that station
9 I ca n't say I felt any stronger when Beth left that day , but I was exceedingly glad that she had come and I was left with an inkling of hope .
10 ‘ We left that gig that night by car , ’ Robert recalls .
11 He left that penalty unspecified .
12 I left that meeting with the phrase , ‘ I am a lesbian , ’ ready to be spoken at any moment .
13 The only trouble was that he never seemed to bother too much with punctuation — he apparently left that to me ! ’
14 You then left that meeting , rather hurriedly , before it ended , in a very anxious state .
15 It originally appeared under the imprint of the Bodley Head , having been steered into existence by Allen Lane shortly before he left that firm to found Penguin .
16 Minton 's first printed book jacket had accompanied William Sansom 's Three , published by the Hogarth Press in 1946 and probably commissioned by Lehmann before he left that firm .
17 But by the time the DTI and other City institutions wake up to the severity of Norton 's plight , will there by anything left that 's worth saving ?
18 So me and the other girl left that evening to go to work .
19 But er it was only u until I left the school cos I was only a matter of eight when I left that school so er I was n't in a it was n't in any progressive sort of style then I mean we wer it was more rudiments of education that we were taught and er
20 By the time they left that sector to search elsewhere we 'd be heading for Fraxilly , with functional ship .
21 By the the I served five year then and I left that and I went into corporation transport which was tramcars then .
22 Er we left that out because of Dennis ' assurance that it was just our costs , but these are , this is certainly something that we would have to er add to our cost .
23 And they presented the cost of them , the immediate cost of implementing them , the ongoing cost or , or any saving that there might be because erm and erm left , left that for er for comment .
24 I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal .
25 Finally , having received an audience in Edirne , the company left that city for the west on 12 March 1433 ( 20 Rajab 836 ) .
26 So the fire and its subsequent flood , which destroyed everything left that was not flammable and added a particularly noisome flux to the survivors ' problems , did not mark its end .
27 I started on farm work and then er we left that and we started with the County Council .
28 We always left that to the natives . ’
29 We left that to the teenyboppers with personal stereos and skateboards .
30 Well it depended er the reason I left that blank as I wondered companies take that meaning different things .
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