Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] leave the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barthes managed to leave the great works of literature intact . |
| 2 | Clarissa promised to leave the front door on the latch and pointed to the ceiling . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By the end of the war Winnicott had left the actual practice of physical paediatrics behind , his outpatient clinic at Paddington Green becoming in effect a department of child psychiatry based on psychodynamic theory and on his particular way of using it . |
| 5 | The long wars against France had left the British more confident about their position overseas than before , but not necessarily more interested in activity outside Europe . |
| 6 | At 49 all the curtains were drawn and at 51 Mrs Archer had left the front door open , perhaps in the hope that Mr Archer would return . |
| 7 | A number of news agencies gave the French Minister of the Interior Philippe Marchand as the source for the report which they carried on Feb. 7 to the effect that Tedjini Haddam had left the five-member HCS in order to continue his duties as head of the Islamic Institute attached to the Paris mosque . |
| 8 | Maria had left the identical cuttings anchored by a small china bowl on her coffee-table , but the bowl had been moved , so he must have examined them on arrival . |
| 9 | The RAF had left the historic airfield in 1970 . |
| 10 | Shaken and tearful , Laura had left the small private room , joining Ross outside in the corridor . |
| 11 | The county in most immediate danger was Kent , but the death of the Lord Lieutenant had left the local defence arrangements in disarray and one of his deputies could only promise ‘ If the French come in March we shall be ready with our militia , ’ which was not , in late December , very reassuring . |