Example sentences of "leave over [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would mean she could buy eggs for supper and pay something on the grocery bill and have enough left over for the vet . |
| 2 | Although Microsoft Corp is currently gorging itself on Intel Corp iAPX-86 platforms with its Windows desktop environment — and Windows NT will follow — there are still expected to be some rich pickings left over for the gaggle of hopefuls which are working on desktop Unix implementations for the architecture , which will soon include the new P5 80586 iteration when it arrives . |
| 3 | One 's grant disappeared into a bottomless sea of cigarettes and beer with hardly enough left over for the books we were meant to read . |
| 4 | Women were remarking on the window hangings — ‘ You could hang my whole downstairs with one of those red curtains , ’ said Mary McCulloch , ‘ and have a length left over for the beds . ’ |
| 5 | And then , terribly pleased with that demonstration , the anthropologist goes on to try to fit in everything : and a good anthropologist is one who completes the picture and appears to have no pieces left over at the end . |
| 6 | This is because it carries out a unique function within the nuclear industry : it tries to deal with the problems left over at the end . |
| 7 | We finally realised that even on our meagre sum we could avoid having too much month left over at the end of our money . |
| 8 | ‘ You may take whatever is left over at the end of each day . |
| 9 | It is therefore particularly fitting that it is a charity associated with the teaching profession hat takes some of the books left over at the end of the sale to ‘ sent to countries in dire need ’ , as Lewis Romanis , former Headmaster of Boroughmuir School , put it in his gracious thank-you letter . |
| 10 | Yeah I mean if you get erm , I 'll tell you what actually , because it 's a two hour slot I can in one slot get them to y'know and th we 're not in a great hurry cos there 's usually a few spaces left over at the end of the term . |
| 11 | So in other words we got eight tens left over on the bottom . |
| 12 | In Russian Central Asia the engines were designed to burn the naphtha left over after the refining of the petroleum from the Central Asian oilfields . |
| 13 | There are also signs that FTC could soon sign a deal with the rump of the Football League , those clubs left over after the formation of the new Premier League . |
| 14 | There 's one in the garage I 'm sure there was one left over in the garage . |
| 15 | There was enough left over in the 5lb bag to give most of the plot another top dressing last month . |
| 16 | She dragged herself from the sofa and listlessly prepared herself some lunch , making do with bread and Camembert cheese and some of the pâté which had been left over from the night before . |
| 17 | I do n't know how to — I do not even want to — dispel this cold mist left over from the fog . |
| 18 | After a meagre supper of beans left over from the orderlies ' meal , Pétain slept , huddled in an armchair . |
| 19 | The paths would be made from bricks left over from the building of the house ; the little hedges , not more than twelve inches in height , would be box , and spaces large enough to accommodate blooms would be devoted to arum lilies ; the others to gravel . |
| 20 | You 've still got some left over from the year before , but people keep giving you it . |
| 21 | He whistled ‘ Roll Out the Barrel ’ out of tune as he pushed the few remains left over from the day towards the setting sun . |
| 22 | They were the original fittings left over from the beginning of the century which the Diocesan Parsonage Committee had yet to get around to modernising . |
| 23 | We had money left over from the Cow and Gate appeal and we are going to buy special waters and rehydration equipment for babies who have suffered from dysentery and diarrhoea . ’ |
| 24 | Sets left over from the space ship in ‘ The Sensorites ’ were re-used for the interiors of crashed British Rocket Ship 201 , while Tristram Cary 's musique concrète from ‘ The Daleks ’ got its second airing as well . |
| 25 | Much of the stocks are left over from the campaigns conducted against locusts and mosquitoes two decades ago . |
| 26 | The trouble is during the week , a lot of little shops only have what 's been left over from the weekend and their vegetables , cos that 's what happens at ours |
| 27 | Ah but we got some left over from the others . |
| 28 | Sir Kenelm Digby , whose book of recipes collected from his contemporaries and friends has provided posterity with a graphic record of Stuart cookery , notes that he himself made a fine syllabub with syrup left over from the home-drying of plums ; being " very quick of the fruit and very weak of sugar " this syrup " makes the Syllabub exceeding well tasted " says Sir Kenelm . |
| 29 | yes last week he helped me turn the garage out he took all the rubbish left over from the tip down to the tip . |
| 30 | Just sometimes , this one had crimson nails , left over from the other , who wore a tight black skirt and a black jacket with padded shoulders over a pink silk shirt and was carefully made up with pink and brown eyeshadow , brushed blusher along the cheekbone and plummy lips . |