Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] leave the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that I had left the college dormitory I used to look fearfully from rime to time out of my window , expecting to see that gang of fascist students coming to beat me up . |
| 2 | I believe now the driver — I did n't see who it was — was checking that I had left the pub . |
| 3 | Only when she was out of sight and I had turned a corner did I remember that I had left the little willow leaf from her body lying upstairs on her Sophocles . |
| 4 | And I 'd left the gates open an oh it was Friday ! |
| 5 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 6 | As you must know , Barbara and I had left the Black Swan before she drowned . ’ |
| 7 | If I had left the move till later it would probably have been much more traumatic . |
| 8 | They did n't arrest me , but I had to leave the college . |
| 9 | They had made the transition to college ‘ inhabitants ’ in the two years since I had left the borough . |
| 10 | My involvement with the tunnel did not extend to the rail link which was decided after I had left the department . |
| 11 | After I had left the laboratory , I escaped into the country outside the town . |
| 12 | There was an Audi which passed me soon after I 'd left the pub . |
| 13 | When I 'd left the horse in the yard and gone in for breakfast I found both Mackie and Sam Yaeger sitting at the table with Tremayne , all of them discussing that day 's racing at Nottingham . |
| 14 | But as soon as I had left the building , James and the Old Man and all the ties and affections of my ex-job began to blur . |
| 15 | I lay there trying to square what I heard with the new enthusiasm derived from Edward and Laura , for I 'd left the Lodge around two in the morning , ready to set off with them the next day in search of the horizon . |