Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] left the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The home-help had left the window ajar that morning and Bella , because of her arthritic hands , could n't close it again properly . |
| 2 | The nervous tension of the build-up to the wedding had left the royal couple absolutely drained . |
| 3 | Many of those affected by the relocation had left the south as refugees from the conflict there in the previous decade . |
| 4 | The bunch pulled out by the weathercock had left the rest of the twigs loose in their binding . |
| 5 | But the fighting had left the British and French armies even weaker . |
| 6 | I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump . |
| 7 | When the car had left the front door and they had promised to behave , Michael was sent to check on Mrs Murphy , up to her sleeves in the sink . |
| 8 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 9 | The DDA had left the phone on automatic redial and now it was ringing back from London . |
| 10 | The rain had left the boulevards lacquered , and the sky calm as death . |
| 11 | At one time the cards had been relegated to a storeroom to await incineration , but power strikes around the middle of the decade had left the facility without any index at all . |
| 12 | Anyway , the meeting broke up , though Clinton and his manservant Venner remained seated until the rest had left the hall . |
| 13 | But when the landlord had left the room he reached into a pocket of his greatcoat and brought out a flat silver flask . |
| 14 | Rildia Bee had finished giving a piano lesson to a student who was experiencing difficulty with some rather complicated passages in a sonata , and the student had left the house . |
| 15 | The woman had left the bags and O saw she was walking back to the child , he heard her heels , but O did not stay to see what she did to the child ( and so he did not see her pick the child up in her arms and hold him tight ) ; he turned quickly , and left the station as fast as he could . |
| 16 | Now , when the farmer had left the house , his wife went out to the stable and saddled the pony. then she put on her husband 's best clothes , tied the turban high so as to look as tall as possible , jumped astride the pony , and set off to the field where the tiger was waiting . |
| 17 | The butler had left the dining room quietly , taking care to close the doors behind him , and proceeded calmly to the drawing room where his employer was taking tea with a number of visitors . |
| 18 | As for Surere , Huy had surrendered to the thought that the man had left the Southern Capital long ago . |
| 19 | Imaging was continued until the meal had left the stomach . |
| 20 | Keele is the place for such controversial discussion and conversation upon this very important subject continued long after the speaker and the audience had left the lecture room . |
| 21 | At the end of the evidence , after the appellant had left the witness box , Mr. Leonard , who appeared for the appellant in the court below and before this court , moved to quash counts 1 and 6 of the indictment . |
| 22 | In Catalonia there was little criticism of a territorial aristocracy that took little or no interest in its lands : the large farmers were confident and secure in an aristocratic rural society where an early and major defeat of the economic power of the nobility had left the masovers a rural bourgeoisie . |