Example sentences of "[pron] left the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less than half an hour later I left the front entrance of the Astoria and walked down the dark side street . |
| 2 | When I left the Civil Service in 1987 I was rather pessimistic . |
| 3 | ‘ When I left the private sector in 1979 to become Keith Joseph 's special adviser , the car industry in this country was in ruins . |
| 4 | I think I left the real world , and entered a dangerous world of dreams and madness . |
| 5 | Then I left the surveying surveyor civil engineering I went in the black gang . |
| 6 | Shortly after I left the public sector again , I was invited to chair a seminar at the Civil Service Staff College at Sunningdale comparing being an accounting officer in the Civil Service and being chairman of a public company and appearing before an annual general meeting . |
| 7 | I left the main group and started searching on the first floor at the west side of the house . |
| 8 | To gaze on thee I left the smoaking Pail ; |
| 9 | and I mean I have done several since I left the Scottish Office as well which is quite good and I thought that I might put Sandy at his ease by telling a couple of amusing incidents that have happened post the Scottish Office days |
| 10 | I left the old Frenchman still puffing away at his pipe and returned through the village to the orchard next to Brigade H.Q I had a feeling that I would not see the French family again . |
| 11 | And so I left the old lady in her bride 's dress in the candle-light , with the dusty furniture around her . |
| 12 | It spans 36 centuries , from 1600BC to AD1974 — the date of the Turkish invasion which left the ancient city of Famagusta in their hands . |
| 13 | In Italy , a general strike in May 1922 , enabled Mussolini 's Fascists to drive the Communist Administration of Bologna out of office , and later that year , Mussolini unseated the government and handed over the administration to the King and the Army , which left the Italian King with little alternative but to ask Mussolini to form a new government , which was sworn-in on 31st . |
| 14 | A short time later , on the other side , she came to a noticeboard set at the corner of a road which left the main highway . |
| 15 | It was announced in June 1989 that an opposition front , the Moslem Unity Front ( Angkatan Perpeduan Ummah — APU ) , consisting of Semangat " 46 , PAS and Berjasa ( Barisan Jama'ah Islamiah Semalaysia , which left the National Front to join the APU ) , had been established . |
| 16 | It was Dr John Burton , however , who left the classic example of outside prejudice when he observed that the local roads bred two memorable creatures , ungainly spindle-shaped oxen and beautiful long-legged women . |
| 17 | A barrister who left the Inland Revenue for practice at the Bar summed up his opinion of the service in the following words : ‘ I enjoyed it , they enjoyed me , and I would always consider returning if the Bar did not prove satisfying . ’ |
| 18 | FURTHER intelligence about the amazing Mr Humphrey Berkeley , who left the Conservative Party after bequeathing it an elective system for choosing its leaders , joined Labour , then moved on to the SDP , only to resign from it , too . |
| 19 | Yet the Conservative dominance of the new government , and their move towards protectionism , alienated Sir Herbert Samuel and the free traders who left the National government in September 1932 . |
| 20 | Three of Koresh 's followers who left the isolated compound since the stand-off began yesterday denied conspiracy to kill federal officers . |
| 21 | You left the young lady Katelina van Borselen at Rhodes . |
| 22 | So did you find the job before you left the old place ? |
| 23 | For instance , they would n't give you loans except on condition you left the independent union . |
| 24 | It was , you left the back door open that 's what 's made it , the room cold . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought at first the food was a trap , but after you left the pink mixture I knew I could trust you . ’ |
| 26 | Even if she left the dubious sanctuary of the car she had no clue to the best direction in which to seek help . |
| 27 | She left the following year having exhausted all the tuition the school could offer . |
| 28 | She drew away from him , shivering as she left the warm circle cast by his body , and heard him sigh as he raised himself up to stare down at her . |
| 29 | She left the other kipper for Oliver , but decided that she would wait a bit longer before she went to fetch him . |
| 30 | Tonight she was to chair the meeting , so she left the front door unlocked for any late-comers , and , having seated the nervous little reporter from the Advent in a position where she could see and hear all the ladies present , giving her at the same time a hastily written list of the names of those expected to attend , she called the meeting to order . |