Example sentences of "been leave [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Katherine sat before the fire , and began sorting through the morning 's post , which had been left on a small silver tray on the side-table beside her chair . |
| 2 | The first was simply a codeword one of his paid agents had stumbled upon : a single Mandarin character , the indentation of which had been left on a notepad Jan Mach had discarded . |
| 3 | The blue cylinder with a red label had been left on a plant stall in Park Rise , Great Ayton , to collect money for the Yorkshire Cancer Fund . |
| 4 | Special Branch officers and British Transport police were alerted after a train driver reported that a battered suitcase had been left on a train from Darlington . |
| 5 | However , ample space has been left on the circuit panel for two polyester capacitors to be connected in parallel ( see photograph ) . |
| 6 | John Dugdale , in his article on TV election coverage ( 3 April ) , writes that Sue Lawley was ‘ restricted to presenting Solve My Problem , and that women ‘ of proven competence ’ have been left on the margins of prestige programmes . |
| 7 | He made his way round the side of the house , peering in at the windows , noting that some dishes , though washed , had been left on the draining board . |
| 8 | The mercurial Polish international has been left on the bench for the last three games following a 5–1 defeat at Brentford . |
| 9 | The tray had been left on the edge of a table . |
| 10 | Mike Doogan , chairman of the town 's chamber of trade , said he was bitterly disappointed for those who had been left on the dole . |
| 11 | The sweets — given free to passengers — had been left on the Swissair jet at Manchester airport . |
| 12 | The clothes had been left on the heated towel rack in the bathroom , which had taken some of the chill off them , but insinuating himself into their dampness was almost enough to make him retract his jibe , and wear the absent lover 's clothes . |
| 13 | There was a photograph of the bedroom in which the bed appeared gargantuan , with a great carved wooden headboard and foot , neatly made , although somebody 's sunglasses had been left on the patchwork quilt . |
| 14 | It had been left on the bar : Please give this to Mr Sam Pascoe . ’ |
| 15 | It had been left on the terrace this time , anchored down by a stone . |
| 16 | At last , in an effort to bring her mind back to an even keel , she went to the office , where she discovered a pile of farm accounts had been left on the desk . |
| 17 | He instructed his panic-stricken , guilt-ridden wife to pack up Kemp 's clothes in a suitcase , and to clean up the bloody mess that must have been left on the carpet , and probably on the sheets . |
| 18 | Much of the burden of the environment and development crisis has been left on the shoulders of the world 's poorest countries in the South . " |
| 19 | Remnants of the colliery buildings have been left as a reminder of the coal mining industry — Kinneil colliery closed as recently as 1981 . |
| 20 | It had been left to a nephew of Lucy Trigg 's , also a naval man , who put it in the hands of a London estate agent to sell for him whilst he was abroad . |
| 21 | Once again it has been left to a recession to catch out those who overstretched themselves in the boom years . |
| 22 | Until now , under this Government , everything has been left to the hazards of private development and the initiative of county councils . |
| 23 | The High Street had been left to the pimps and the down-and-outs , and in the ancient College grounds where once the Black Friars had taught and studied in a universe made of crystal spheres , there was only the clang and clatter of brake couplings and buffers . |
| 24 | The others had been left to the MacIans . |
| 25 | The properties had been left to the Church in the early eighteenth century and were let at moderate rents . |
| 26 | Danzigers felt with some justification that they had been left to the mercy of the Polish military and were now chained to what Molotov called the monstrous bastard of Versailles — the backward Polish state and economy . |
| 27 | Had no such provision been made , and had it merely been left to the initiative of backbenchers to keep an eye on instruments tabled , it is highly probable that many instruments would become or remain law with never a critical eye being cast over them . |
| 28 | Tracing the original owner , I found that the wood was from a timber outbuilding , and has been left to the tender mercies of the council or the local pyromaniac . |
| 29 | There is a book to be written on the identity crisis apparent in nurses who have been left to the mercy of all the changes , and you will be far from alone if you can not tell a facilitator from a patient services coordinator ! |
| 30 | From the early days , the children destined for university would have acquired at least the rudiments of Greek and perhaps even a little Hebrew : books in all three languages had been left to the School by William Nicholson , the Master , in 1597 . |