Example sentences of "left [prep] the last [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | But today belonged to the Buccaneers — with a final cheer as the planes left for the last time . |
| 3 | Rangers ' selection for Brugge will , under the circumstances , be left until the last moment . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Who 's left from the last band and who are the new members ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The cursor is left on the last instance found , if the search was successful , or where it started if the search failed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |