Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] left the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd invented some errands and left the two men alone . |
| 2 | He threw the thing away , brushed his fingers and left the blackened ruin . |
| 3 | This was a century or more after the Romans had left — not that they influenced these parts very much — they built their walls and garrisons and roads and left the wild fell folk alone . |
| 4 | The recent spate of takeovers in the record industry has obliterated the independents and left the big five of Sony , Thorn EMI , Bertelsman , Warner and Polygram with 70 per cent of the market . |
| 5 | It was learned later that the plane had flown through overhead high tension power cables and left the topmost cable intact ; 132,000 volts of electricity had passed through the aircraft , igniting all flammable material on board . |
| 6 | In Fig. 11–11 the median voter is constrained to vote for an output combination along 18 of the budget line 12 because otherwise the local authority would set tax rates that left the poorest citizens with a minimum income level lower than that regarded as acceptable ; i.e. they would set a tax greater than 19 . |
| 7 | Their daughter seemed to have taken the best features and left the bad ones . |
| 8 | I had by now recovered my scattered senses and after finishing off my enjoyable meal of pie and peas and my second pint , I thanked my kind new-found friends and left the hospitable Railway bar to walk back down to where my trusty old Morris Minor was parked . |
| 9 | Others saved their own skins and left the worst-hit areas . |
| 10 | ’ Applying this to the body of Christ in Cranham , the very week that I finalised the membership of the team and announced it , one couple in the team had a violent row with others and left the new work and also the church . |
| 11 | With the fall in population more land became available , and those peasants who survived found they were being offered more favourable landholding terms by some lords and left the poorer lands for vacant richer lands elsewhere . |