Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [pron] left the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Connon had enough of himself left to give Jenny a sardonically accusing glance as he left the room with the doctor . |
| 2 | Lord Justice Higgins ' widow , Bridget , daughters , Mary , Lucy and Cait , and sons John and Matthew , led the cortege as it left the church for burial at Milltown Cemetery in Magherafelt . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're done , ’ Thomas exclaimed in disgust as he left the Cabinet room . |
| 4 | Ward took the wheel as we left the hotel , but instead of heading south , he turned north , and when Iris Sunderby remonstrated with him , all he said was , ‘ Chanchán . |
| 5 | An 81-year-old woman who collapsed two hours after a robber grabbed her handbag as she left the British Legion Club in Clapham , south London , was on a life-support machine at St Thomas 's Hospital yesterday with a suspected blood clot on the brain . |
| 6 | that a simple explanation for the explosion probably lies in the condenser , which cooled evaporating xylene as it left the reaction and was specially designed to accommodate up to 50 kg of deposited tetrachlorobenzene , without blocking . |
| 7 | Stan 's voice came over the loudspeaker as we left the quay and headed sea wards . |
| 8 | It changed as the Dornier accelerated away from them , and took on a rhythmic throbbing as it left the ground . |
| 9 | He whooped for joy as he left the phone cubicle . |
| 10 | A parting sniff as she left the room gave the gentleman to understand that he had disappointed her . |
| 11 | Irate fathers departed as meekly as doves tearful mothers raised a smile as they left the building . " |
| 12 | I was lucky in meeting a cab as I left the bank , and I went back to my anonymous room in Peel Square . |
| 13 | They saw the big armoured car shudder to a halt and the great black beast as it left the roof and plummeted towards them . |
| 14 | How much cheese did you managed to pocket as we left the cell , Benny ? ’ |
| 15 | Cleveland Police are appealing for witnesses who might have seen the man as he left the premises at about 8.50pm on Thursday night . |
| 16 | The relief as she left the place and walked along the track that led away from the Hacienda de Nieve was astounding . |
| 17 | Wycliffe lit his pipe as he left the house and walked slowly back towards the town . |
| 18 | The two were stopped by police after the incident as they left the scene , carrying their Chinese food in carrier bags . |
| 19 | Corrected for radioactive decay , a linear interpolation of these figures to the Windscale source would indicate a ratio in the cloud as it left the Windscale chimney of 1:45 . |
| 20 | Valiant started off the surveillance as she left the Thames while we on Venturous came into the picture down Channel in the Isle of Wight area . |
| 21 | She wondered if she 'd walk out into a scene , or whether Ace had managed to extricate himself unscathed from the encounter as she left the relative comfort of the ladies ' room . |
| 22 | She thought he might take her hand as they left the floor , but he did n't . |
| 23 | Teresa held her hand as they left the main building by a back door and crunched over the path to the infirmary , Anna dragging her feet . |
| 24 | Speaking next , Medvedev 's report on his work as secretary for ideology was greeted with open hostility , and there were jeers and whistling as he left the podium . |
| 25 | Brother Cadfael waited his opportunity to draw close to the abbot 's shoulder as he left the choir . |
| 26 | The smell of sex rose in a gust as he left the bed . |
| 27 | ‘ That is the way forward , ’ remarked the Colonel with enthusiasm as they left the Pavilion . |
| 28 | ‘ I remember , ’ Maria returned feelingly , giving Florian a disgusted look as she left the room . |
| 29 | The home crowd was not pleased and hooligans ( described by French journalist Jacques Verdier as ‘ imbèciles ’ ) spat on the Scotsman as he left the field . |
| 30 | ‘ It is like this , ’ said the Town Clerk as they left the Town Hall together , ‘ This arch-smuggler , Cut-throat Jake they call him , is apparently planning to receive a load of contraband liquor this very evening , at dusk , by the rocks below the Baddie 's Tower . |