Example sentences of "he [vb past] left the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Both things happened months after he 'd left the Southern Laboratory ; neither had anything to do with me . " |
2 | He 'd left the local school as early as his birthday would allow and had n't really done anything for the following year except watch his father die . |
3 | ONCE he had left the modern flat where he lived with his father in Johannesburg , John Cranko always lived in old houses . |
4 | He had left the comparative safety of the platform of the step-ladder and was now clinging to what felt like a dangerously pliable branch of the tree . |
5 | After they made love , he had left the warm bed and her possessive arms . |
6 | He had left the squalid little office that afternoon never to return . |
7 | Clemens Krauss had taught classes in the past but he had left the whole thing in the hands of a Professor Wunderer and a man from the Vienna Philharmonic who was interested in conducting but had n't the slightest idea how to go about it . |
8 | Since he had left the French Foreign Legion his bar had become the Paris watering hole for old comrades-in-arms . |
9 | Before Cowley could say a word , he had left the Intensive Care room and was pounding along the corridor to the front exit of the Hospital . |
10 | He had left the next Phoenix King with a strong army , a secure line of fortresses in the north and the most powerful navy in the world . |