Example sentences of "left over [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | One 's grant disappeared into a bottomless sea of cigarettes and beer with hardly enough left over for the books we were meant to read . |
2 | Women were remarking on the window hangings — ‘ You could hang my whole downstairs with one of those red curtains , ’ said Mary McCulloch , ‘ and have a length left over for the beds . ’ |
3 | After a meagre supper of beans left over from the orderlies ' meal , Pétain slept , huddled in an armchair . |
4 | Much of the stocks are left over from the campaigns conducted against locusts and mosquitoes two decades ago . |
5 | Ah but we got some left over from the others . |
6 | Second World War gas masks , tin helmets and posters on treating burns and what to do with incendiary bombs were left over from the days when each factory had a fire watch and some even had a home guard . |
7 | He started looking into corners for the bugging device , though he said he was searching for a stray cigarette , left over from the days when he smoked . |