Example sentences of "they [verb] left [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick wished they 'd left a window open . |
| 2 | He could n't help thinking of something that she 'd said in all seriousness when they 'd left the apartment building behind and a lack of any interest from a passing night patrol on the motorway had told him that no , the police did n't seem to be keeping an active watch for his car ; she 'd looked at him and she 'd said , Promise me , Peter . |
| 3 | forgetting that they 'd left the heating off . |
| 4 | Rosie stamped ahead of Rory the two streets to where they 'd left the car . |
| 5 | I was just politely told they 'd left the area — " This number is no longer available as the special investigation team has left the area . " |
| 6 | They ate the sandwiches they 'd made before they 'd left the house , and then lay in their shelter and read two paper-backed books they 'd brought with them . |
| 7 | Oh , look at this sweet little picture of a cow … heavens , they 've left a bag of oranges . |
| 8 | they 've left the bread . |
| 9 | that 's it , they say in , you know what they 've done , they 've left the gate wide open again |
| 10 | By that I do n't mean they 've left the prison ; I mean they 're dead . |
| 11 | They had left a gap in the life of the city . |
| 12 | When they had left the cinema , they found it had been raining so Yanto decided the standing position would be favourite . |
| 13 | After they had left the church they were a little embarrassed . |
| 14 | They had left the church and the low huts behind , and the sun was warm , and the soft air off the hills . |
| 15 | When they had left the village , passing beneath the clump of wild apricot trees , bespattered with blossom , they walked in single file between the fields . |
| 16 | After they had left the tavern , there were always some globules of mercury on the floor which the charitable thought had spilt from their bottles , but the waiters knew had come from the men themselves . |
| 17 | She sat down at the table for two Roman had selected , and tossed her hair back from her face ; Roman had pulled the pins out as soon as they had left the hotel and placed them in his pocket . |
| 18 | Their clothes were in a worse state than when they had left the workhouse . |
| 19 | She had said that before , Maria realised , when they had left the theatre and Luke had asked her if she wanted to get a meal somewhere . |
| 20 | Half an hour had passed since they had left the shelter of the culvert . |
| 21 | They had left the hospital grounds now , and she thought about the two suitcases in the back of the car . |
| 22 | In a moment or two they had left the Trevi behind them . |
| 23 | A new CDU-FDP combination had been considered but the FDP seemed fickle and unreliable : October 1966 was not the first occasion of course on which they had left the Cabinet . |
| 24 | They had left the paddock gate open , and Joe had taken advantage of it to go in search of more of the nice green apples he remembered having enjoyed so much the previous day — but this time he did n't reach Jessica Turvey 's orchard ; he got himself trapped in the marsh . |
| 25 | By this time they had left the classroom and were walking down one of the long , high-ceilinged corridors of the Faculty building . |
| 26 | They had left the restaurant and were taking a few steps on the front . |
| 27 | As soon as they had left the room , Nancy took off her shoes and crept silently up the stairs to listen in the passage — as she had done once before . |
| 28 | Whispering about people when they had left the room was one of the naughty things she did n't do . |
| 29 | But once they had left the house , and were at last too far away to hear her aunt 's and uncle 's farewells , or to see them as they stood outside in the yard , silhouetted against the lighted kitchen , excitement began to creep into Ruth and her spirits began to lift . |
| 30 | For the first time since they had left the house , he seemed rather less relaxed . |