Example sentences of "who [vb past] left " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bad luck on the Liberal Flemish Freedom and Progress Party ( PVV ) and the Francophone Liberal Reform Party ( PRL ) , who got left out and with a handful of other minority parties make up a discordant opposition . |
| 2 | who 'd left her in the lurch |
| 3 | He walked out on her mother , who was stuck for years afterwards with the name of someone who 'd left her . |
| 4 | Gillian was thirteen when her father ran off with one of his pupils who 'd left school a year earlier . |
| 5 | I , I think er erm when I first started down there , it was a job , I thought well this is a good job fifteen bob a week , that 's , that 's a lot more than some of the other boys who 'd left school got , they were twelve and six you see and erm , I think erm I came back out of the forces and took over more responsible jobs , I do n't think I could have gone to anything else but transport . |
| 6 | His work had taken him from London to the Arunta , from Boston Brahmins to Buddhist scriptures ; he too was an explorer who had left his native home . |
| 7 | All he needed to do was to collect the votes of the majority of MAs who had left the University . |
| 8 | He paused and the meeting observed a thirty-second silence in honour of Richard Fairley who had left the partnership a year previously for considerably more than a handful of silver , taking with him Regina Securities ' main reason for being interested in paying Yeo Davis 's bills . |
| 9 | Reynard Lennon , who had left a trail of confused , temporarily disabled security droids behind him , waited in the shadow of a large rhododendron hybrid in Acropolis Park and watched the Roirbak rotor dance up from the roof , wheel around and head towards Sector 2p . |
| 10 | To help her , she had a new maid , Teresa , older and more confident than Maria , who had left to be a nurse-maid . |
| 11 | His wife , Vera , who had left Germany just before the war , was very nice . |
| 12 | I met an old Jew there who had left Prague thirty years before and he asked me if there were still whores in Wenceslas Square ? |
| 13 | Here , R. H. Tawney took a traditional line , asserting that Tutorial Classes and , at the very least , One-Year courses constituted the WEA 's real work , that those who had left school at or about fifteen were its most important target and that as a movement it should be largely under the control of its voluntary student members . |
| 14 | Many pupils who had left a schoolbook behind would rather risk punishment than walk through the dark room with the animals smiling as they watched you hunt for your things . |
| 15 | At Bletchley were two Professors of the University of Edinburgh , Alexander Aitken and Walter Bruford , who had left their chairs of Mathematics and German respectively , to devote their appropriate talents to more urgent intellectual tasks . |
| 16 | They were delighted and arranged a reception for him in a studio formerly occupied by Chagall , who had left France before the war to go back to Russia to get married . |
| 17 | Two years later Arp was living in Zurich , a member of a group of talented émigré artists who had left their own countries because of the war . |
| 18 | As a cuisine it was not very attractive to the man who had left half his insides across Central Asia two years before . |
| 19 | It was just a place where she had been left , and as she grew out of infancy she knew that it was her mother who had left her there . |
| 20 | In adult life they were confident that the eleven-plus had separated them from ‘ the dim ones ’ and saw no reason to be troubled about the ‘ intellectually inferior ’ working-class boys and girls who had left school at the age of fifteen or sixteen . |
| 21 | There was to be a drive to recruit married women who had left teaching , and to make part-time teaching more attractive . |
| 22 | She was considerably upset by this and amongst protestations of sexual continence said that , apart from this young man , she had not had intercourse with anybody else since her husband , who had left her ten months previously . |
| 23 | At that moment one of the other two women who had left the room for a couple of minutes returned with a bowl of water and began to bathe the injured arm . |
| 24 | At the bar of the Globe Inn talk between the landlord and a Mr Woodhouse of Stowey turned very quickly to the subject of ‘ those Rascalls from Alfoxden ’ and of John Thelwall , who had left for Bristol two weeks earlier . |
| 25 | We had in addition to this party , — a doctor coming to visit his mother , who lived in Coll ; a young Englishman with a fishing-rod , who had left a medical practice for a few days , to whip the burns of Coll and breathe the fine air ; a minister 's wife ; a retired minister and his wife , both in delicate health ; the fiscal of Tobermory , who had a farm in Tiree ; the Chief Constable and Sheriff Clerk from Mull , who came to investigate a case of suspected cattle poisoning ; and a young Glasgow teacher , who came to be guest of the Fiscal aforementioned . |
| 26 | These words of wisdom remind me of a student who came to see me many years ago after the long vacation during which she had begun her undergraduate dissertation ( with another tutor who had left the university that summer , I must emphasize ) . |
| 27 | But this list was denied him in other areas and he then used school lists , projecting forward for the people who had left school ; but this had many errors and losses , with people moving home . |
| 28 | Youths who had left the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Doncaster roamed the streets at a loose end , causing mischief . |
| 29 | This was no mean achievement for the son of immigrant parents , and for a man who had left school five years before going back to college . |
| 30 | Salomon , who had left Germany when he was nine , showed few signs of anything like this happening to him — although he was reported as ‘ somewhat unsociable ’ and disappeared at one stage for three days , returning well and happy . |