Example sentences of "[pers pn] left [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I left Bainbridge by the lane leading out of the village from the Post Office . |
| 2 | I left Reine early , when all the people who live on the outskirts of Paris pour in to the city to work . |
| 3 | I left Will Peach to yet another night of work in the Park . |
| 4 | When I left Hello-Goodbye , Darryl Zanuck had said , ‘ You understand that you wo n't be working with Fox again . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I left America , when two years of age , have not returned since , and do not propose to return . ’ |
| 6 | In due course I left Varndean and went to do business studies at Sussex University . |
| 7 | and then , as I say when I was sixteen well erm when I left Needham School , you see , I passed through . |
| 8 | Ah , yes , well we after I left Needham , then I went to the Post Office for a year |
| 9 | ‘ You must understand I left Spain before my tenth birthday and have never been back since . |
| 10 | Erm they began the union just before I left Bellany and of course it was cried down and erm they had meetings and the lot , and then all the miners were on strike at the time , and er my father and brother were both miners and er my brother was very friendly with Mr and Mr next door and er anyway er we decided to come out on strike for Bellany 's union and of course erm they , the , one , I think it was Mr said Joey he said er did you know we 're out on strike here and my brother said it seemed to be catching does n't it he did n't say he could n't say I worked there you see but erm it , it caused an upset but still up to a point the unions were good because we 're all badly underpaid for what we did , and the hours we worked they would n't tolerate it nowadays , but erm I forget er I joined the union and if you did n't you were a blackleg you know you , they wanted you to join the union from then I 've been in the union all , until I finished work but erm they , they got us our rises and er as I say the , the money was n't er very good and then the union did fight for the rises and they 'd got to pay it or lose all the er employees but erm I was , I was satisfied with without it , I 've been satisfied with my life you know I 've had , there 's been humorous there 's been sad but erm I 'm still able to get around and that 's the main thing . |
| 11 | That 's why I left word for you to come here . ’ |
| 12 | I left New York in Midwinter 's Jet-star . |
| 13 | ‘ I left New York two years ago , ’ Damian cut in thickly , looking out to sea , his back to her . |
| 14 | ‘ I spoke to Hendrique on the phone before I left East Berlin . |
| 15 | I left China feeling that the state of affairs could not continue for much longer without serious public disorder , possibly started by the students . |
| 16 | I left Kristin and Sabine in the garden talking to the bodyboarding champion of the world and went down to the beach . |
| 17 | Before I left Britain one of the best-kept secrets of the war had at last been revealed — the breaking by the Bletchley Park mathematicians of the ciphers encoded by the German Enigma machine : this priceless intelligence had enabled us to sink all the Bismarck 's supply ships , monitor the movements of Tirpitz so that attacks could be launched on her ( see page 144 ) and destroy many U-boats at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic . |
| 18 | I left Hummersknott two years ago and am now at the Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College . |
| 19 | I left Thiepval having had enough of cemeteries . |
| 20 | I LEFT Ladislav near to the Staroměstské náměsti ( Old Town Square ) , to the north side of which stands the statue erected in 1915 on the five-hundredth anniversary of the burning for heresy of Jan Hus , one of the founders of the European radical tradition . |
| 21 | After I left university , I worked for a Black community project and joined a Black socialist group . |
| 22 | Gillian I started training in social work after I left university . |
| 23 | I have n't had a job since I left university . |
| 24 | ‘ That was why I left university . |
| 25 | I was determined to render myself generic by the time I left university . |
| 26 | When I left university in 1964 I went to live in Hackney in North East London . |
| 27 | I had graduated in 1930 and I left university in the following year , a few weeks before the economic collapse . |
| 28 | My mother gave them to me when I left university . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I have n't looked at them since I left university . |
| 30 | She had disappeared with Old Red into her duty-room and closed the door before I left Casualty . |