Example sentences of "i left the " in BNC.

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1 I remember the strange feeling I had when I left the square that night , a feeling of finality .
2 My parents both died before I left the School of Italian Studies so I had heard nothing about my family for over ten years .
3 I left the station and started down the road to Harwich town .
4 I left the woman 's house as soon as I found work and a room to rent .
5 Nervously I left the safety of a good peg and did a few free moves towards the next one , 20 feet away on the blank left wall .
6 When I left the Civil Service in 1987 I was rather pessimistic .
7 The important thing , he said , was to stop the opposition scoring four more goals , but I left the restaurant unconvinced .
8 I left the orchard to visit the Marine Commandos .
9 I left the farm as it was getting late .
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 As I left the cinema I was seized in an irresistible spasm of shivering .
12 I left the village in 1963 .
13 I left the cinema with a rush of questions , mainly about blood , and a wise response answered them all : ‘ It 's only a film . ’
14 We were just in our early twenties by the time I left The Pistols , beginning to find our way in the world , starting to get more confidence .
15 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 .
16 ‘ When I left the private sector in 1979 to become Keith Joseph 's special adviser , the car industry in this country was in ruins .
17 He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election .
18 As I left the railway station , the police warned me that there was a small demonstration against Norman Tebbit 's recent industrial relations reforms .
19 In 1970 I left The Times on being elected to the House of Commons .
20 When I married I left the classes but now , all these years later , I joined them again .
21 When I left the laundry and the kitchen where I received my basic formation as a novice , I went off to university .
22 I left the gallery because it was n't my moment , ’ says Koons .
23 Thou hast been ‘ the cloud ’ before me from the day that I left the flesh-pots of Egypt , and was led through the way of the wilderness — the cloud that hast been guiding me to a land flowing with milk and honey — the milk of innocence , the honey of friendship !
24 I left the tyre lever and mallet on the grass and stepped down into the boathouse , the shocking chill of the water again a teeth-gritter .
25 After a while I left the family room and wandered through the great central hall and on into the far side of the house , into Perkin 's workroom .
26 I left the one I had in my old Bible at home . ’
27 I left the stores man wondering if it was him or me who was mad .
28 To gaze on thee I left the smoaking Pail ;
29 ‘ I noticed it when I left the hotel . ’
30 Before I left the fortress , in the late afternoon I climbed once more up to the guardian 's hut to say goodbye .
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