Example sentences of "left [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of it they have left as moorland on which they keep sheep . |
| 2 | Britton looking battle-weary after a match in which he was left as Thistle 's lone attacker , a task which he confessed he had never experienced before , admitted he had a fair bit of work to do as a result . |
| 3 | And in Scotland and Wales because there were no equivalents to the metropolitan districts , major urban centres were left as part of much bigger administrative areas with which they sometimes had little in common . |
| 4 | Fifty men left as insurance at Forteviot . |
| 5 | They gathered the flowers that had been left as offerings , they blew the floating candles out . |
| 6 | Turn up minor road for yds , then left through fate into field . |
| 7 | LEFT Through archaeology it possible to find out many details about ancient settlements , so that houses and the general landscape can be reconstructed fairly accurately . |
| 8 | They came down in their own time , after they 'd left off work , and they 'd have a small job done ; and then they 'd take it back ready for work the next morning . |
| 9 | Use password on second door , left , get mouse , get leaf , right , down , right , right , down , right , right , right , right , up , left , give leaf to worm , right , down , left , left , left , up , right , up , up , up , right , throw stone at flat , stand on rocket , jump up/left , fall left off ground , jump up/left off star , get mouse , down , right , right , right , up , right , right , down , right , down , left , left , left , down , right , right , down , right , up , get mouse to win the game and get a cheese sarnie . |
| 10 | Unlike ceramic wall tiles , there should be no gaps left between mirror tiles ( although you should leave a gap at either end , between the tiles and the side wall ) , and the wall surface must be really flat before you start . |
| 11 | A. three vole molars from common buzzard assemblage showing dentine exposure and digestion along the salient angles with collapse of the enamel along the edges of the salient angles ( ×10 ) ; B. enlargement of left hand specimen showing gap left between enamel and digested dentine ( ×75 ) ; C. enlargement of right hand specimen showing extreme rounding ( ×56 ) ; D. shrew molar from red kite assemblage , with digestion of most of enamel ( ×75 ) ; E. vole molars in place in mandible , showing extreme rounding of occlusal surfaces ( ×17 ) ; F. mole mandible from red kite assemblage with the enamel totally digested and the teeth remaining as dentine pegs ( ×7 ) ; G. enlargement of same ( ×37 ) ; H. shrew molar from hen harrier assemblage showing digestion of most of the enamel ( ×65 ) . |
| 12 | Ivy grew around the columns left between doorways and windows , and turned them into foliated columns . |
| 13 | I had left for Kingston largely dismissive of the anxieties expressed by family and friends , telling them that , after all , women have babies all over the world . |
| 14 | If something has been left for construction of a building for a town , the late emperor Marcus and Lucius Verus replied to Procula by rescript that each heir was liable for the whole . |
| 15 | On the very morning after his arrival in the Scottish capital the Duke left for Stirling , where the castle was proving too hard a nut for the Jacobites to crack , and , several hundred men having been lost to no purpose , the siege was finally , soon after the Battle of Falkirk , abandoned , Lord George Murray and other senior commanders having persuaded the prince , much against his will — ‘ Good God ! |
| 16 | What was there left for Fru Møller to do ? |
| 17 | As the unknown map of the world diminishes there are few places left for exploration as the Victorians understood it ; most paths have been trodden before . |
| 18 | The club has been given an allocation of 17,800 by the Football Association , and after season ticket holders and club commitments there will be about 12,000 tickets left for Gold Card holders who have collected the three vouchers at the home games against Ipswich , Plymouth and Middlesbrough . |
| 19 | Manton contained Palmer and they closed to within a shot with two ends left for play . |
| 20 | Another innovation made in 1932 was a huge 45-minute clock which Chapman had installed at the north end of the ground so that players and spectators could see at a glance how much time was left for play . |
| 21 | ONLY three working days are left for ministers to fulfil their promise of a February publication date for the white paper on future energy supply designed to quell the fury over British Coal 's pit closure plans . |
| 22 | In the afternoon , when Gloria had left for work , Dot pulled out Baby 's gas-mask to look at it again . |
| 23 | After he had left for work I found it , unmolested , under his coffee cup . |
| 24 | George had left for work at his usual time of eight fifteen . |
| 25 | I had felt it for my mother before my father left when she would intercept his post , putting certain violet-scented envelopes into the pocket of her dress and steaming them open in the kitchen after he had left for work . |
| 26 | Pat had left for work when the news came and Anne and Maureen decided to telephone Tony at the factory . |
| 27 | His father , smelling of Old Spice and wearing a pin-striped suit , had left for work in the maroon Jaguar , and his mother was upstairs in her bathroom , plastering over the cracks in her face with stuff out of a bottle . |
| 28 | — Anything unusual about his manner when he had left for work on the morning of the 24th ? — Not that she had noted . |
| 29 | Maureen Gilbert 46 , of Hallam Close , Filey , went missing a year ago just half an hour after her husband Derek , a self employed plasterer , left for work . |
| 30 | Not just birds but small animals like foxes are often left for life training by their parents . |