Example sentences of "and left [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | VANDALS looted shops in the centre of Walsall after arsonists attacked an electricity sub-station and left 30,000 homes in the West Midlands town without power , police said yesterday . |
| 2 | Vandals looted shops in the centre of Walsall after arsonists attacked an electricity sub-station and left 30,000 homes in the West Midlands town without power , police said yesterday . |
| 3 | The gypsies are without a homeland or a fixed seat of government — and they are falling victim to a strain of virulent nationalism which , since 1990 , has claimed dozens of lives and left hundreds homeless . |
| 4 | Mr Milne was speaking after some 800 Breton fishermen smashed stalls and equipment at the Rungis market , emptied trucks of imports , crushed shellfish underfoot , pelted riot police with frozen fish and left hundreds of tons of seafood strewn on the ground . |
| 5 | The fishermen , mostly from Brittany , smashed stalls and weighing scales , crushed shells underfoot and left hundreds of pounds of fish strewn on the ground . |
| 6 | Books , as ever in Paris , fared well : Eric Buffetaud auctioned off the eleventh part of the library of Colonel Daniel Sickles , an American who lived in France , collected nineteenth- and twentieth-century books and left 8,000 works valued at FFr200 million when he died four years ago . |
| 7 | The agreement was geared to the details on the prevention of nationalization and left little room for re-negotiation ( cited in West Africa , 1980 , p.573 ) . |
| 8 | He signalled Mariana to follow on foot and left one of the shotguns with her . |
| 9 | He cleaned off the growth from three sides of the rectangular pool and left one end untouched , to see if the weed would grow again . |
| 10 | He pulled off his jacket in a hurry and left one sleeve turned inside out , like a small boy 's jersey . |
| 11 | You know the last time I went back to Britain , I was going for a month but I changed my flight and left two weeks early . |
| 12 | Running , screaming the first time and left two dead before they could creep back out of range of John Russell 's Spencer . |
| 13 | He died in 1837 and left all his assets to his nephew , who was very extravagant . |
| 14 | If you have come to London to start a new job and left all your friends behind in Lancashire , London Branch could be just what you need . |
| 15 | ‘ If you 've come to London to start a new job and left all your friends behind in Lancashire , London Branch could be just what you need ’ |
| 16 | Miss Havisham had died , and left all her fortune to Estella , except for £4000 , which Matthew Pocket inherited . |
| 17 | Mr Briggs , Mr Eyre 's lawyer , wrote to us telling us that our uncle had died , and left all his property , not to us , because of his quarrel with our father , but to his brother 's daughter . |
| 18 | The only bureau to ‘ fail ’ our test was The Last Word — we can only assume that someone simply had a brainstorm and left all the important bits out . |
| 19 | When she 's twenty-one that 's when she can get her money because he died and left all the money to her , right . |
| 20 | Fighting in Tajikistan 's Kurgan-Tyube oblast ( region ) in the south of the country claimed 35 lives and left 56 wounded , according to official figures published in Izvestiya of June 29 . |
| 21 | and did it like that , so she scribbled thirty four out and left thirty plus . |
| 22 | Whoever used it did so rarely and left few traces . |
| 23 | We are at the at where Shrewsbury Town of the third division lead premiership Blackburn by three goals to two , but Blackburn now moving forward , getting it across , it breaks back to drives it in low and left footed and that one is off the target , a shot driven in from twenty five yards by , not finding the goal . |
| 24 | On 20 June 1990 a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in north-west Iran caused the deaths of 50 000 people ; injury to 100 000 , and left 400 000 homeless . |
| 25 | He arrived at Narok ‘ with the intention of using his influence to bring the Moran to reason ’ , and left several weeks later with a promise that the recruits would be forthcoming . |
| 26 | Graham said : ‘ I changed it against Ipswich and left three forwards up front to add more firepower . |
| 27 | He has already played for and left both . |
| 28 | In a dusty Victorian town hall in the East End of London , I stumbled down the steps to the exit , and left half of young , disaffected London dancing and laughing in rooms decked out like candy-striped pleasuredome marquees . |
| 29 | " Come on till we see did it come — you could n't trust Hanlon 's man — late today again — and left half the stuff after him I would n't wonder … " |
| 30 | Guibert of Nogent , a distinguished raconteur , was in the city on 26 April , the day on which the burghers ' resentment boiled over into rebellion , and left this account of events : |