Example sentences of "left [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles was left for the first time to conduct his own strategy in Aquitaine , no doubt with Judith to help him . |
| 2 | Jerking the trigger instead of squeezing it with a steady pressure , meant the gun muzzle being pulled slightly down and left for the first shot . |
| 3 | Because of Berkeley 's criticisms of them , Locke 's views on language and abstract ideas , views which were implicit in the discussion of nominal essences , are best left for the next chapter . |
| 4 | An eerie silence descended over the house as the lorry left for the next house . |
| 5 | The girl who has reached the human being in Raskolnikov the murderer is left for the last time by Svidrigailov ‘ bewildered and frightened , and filled with vague and oppressive suspicions ’ . |
| 6 | But today belonged to the Buccaneers — with a final cheer as the planes left for the last time . |
| 7 | When the crowds had left after the second home match , Chapman met the helpers in the stand and asked them to take him on trust , asserting that the changes were in the club 's interest . |
| 8 | But in a situation where we were left with the second E I P and we had districts preparing district wide plans and as Mr in his submission has said , he intends to remove the present article fourteen , direction , we are in real chaos . |
| 9 | ‘ At my grammar school , over 60% of the students left before the sixth form . |
| 10 | Rangers ' selection for Brugge will , under the circumstances , be left until the last moment . |
| 11 | The Bootle Times wanted us to put them up again for a photograph , and they were left until the next day because it was raining . ’ |
| 12 | The group — all males — were wearing either knee-length shirts or what looked like the jackets and trousers left from the last church jumble sale . |
| 13 | Well if you go back in time if you go back if you go forward in time say twenty years you wo n't have anybody left from the last world war will you ? |
| 14 | She had no energy to swim in the water and pull herself out on the small strip of toilet paper left from the last flushing of the toilet . |
| 15 | Who 's left from the last band and who are the new members ? |
| 16 | Unfortunately , after the Romans left in the 4th century , very little is known of the inhabitants of the area until the arrival of the Normans in the 11th century . |
| 17 | Spaniard Martin Vasquez , back with Real Madrid after an unhappy few months at the Velodrome , has left in the last year or so along with Chris Waddle , Trevor Steven , Dragan Stojkovic , Eric Cantona and £10 million Jean-Pierre Papin . |
| 18 | All the same , watching the thin , lemon beam of sun catch across the postman 's bicycle bars , she let herself think it unfair that her dear friend , Faith Lavender , should have died so suddenly and so much younger than the husk of a woman left in the next room . |
| 19 | But there was an element of luck in yesterday 's performances because the British crews decided to defy political reality by going hard left on the first beat and were pleasantly rewarded by a massive windshift in their favour . |
| 20 | The cursor is left on the last instance found , if the search was successful , or where it started if the search failed . |
| 21 | Continue left to the second lift . |
| 22 | In fulfilment of this agreement a huge force , variously put at 15,000 and 30,000 men , had been assembled between Dunkirk and Boulogne , to follow up any initial success in a landing on the south or east coast , though the final choice of destination was to be left to the last moment , being largely dependent on the wind . |
| 23 | Everything is prepared very carefully ; food that wo n't spoil or collapse is made first and other dishes of a more fragile nature are left to the last moment so they are picture for the picture . |
| 24 | That will be left to the next entertainments secretary . |
| 25 | An invisible line ran past the corner , left at the second gas-lamp , straight as truth across the grass beside the upright sleepers that lined the railway track , and on towards the enemy territory of the Baltic Fleet . |
| 26 | The best route , initially , is to cross the shallows on the left into the rack then go right over the shingle/boulder bank into the mini haystacks , thence into the pool , left at the next rack and cut back right between the rock and the boulder bank to avoid the tree roots . |
| 27 | A lawyer , he lives in one of the swish apartment blocks which sprang out of the rubble left by the last act of licensed hooliganism to hit Cagliari , namely the second world war . |
| 28 | On the attic floor the grain bins are still intact , along with the remains of sack trucks , leather shovels and so on , left by the last miller . |