Example sentences of "[noun] he have left " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the only card he has left in a game which has so far seen her win every hand . |
| 2 | They strip him down to nothing , removing every scrap of power and majesty he had left . |
| 3 | It was a young female golden eagle , and she was going for the carrion he had left . |
| 4 | ‘ No , your Grace , for when he mustered what force he had left and drove at the Welsh knights , he could both ride and fight , and so did , and well . |
| 5 | No wonder he had left her . |
| 6 | Nietzsche 's health had not improved , and in February he had left Basle for two months of convalescence . |
| 7 | If , in that final act of patronage permitted to departing opposition party leaders , Neil Kinnock could be persuaded to put forward for peerage the names of the Labour Party general secretary , Larry Whitty , and its director of organisation , Joyce Gould , he might mark the end of his leadership by making some minor compensation for the mess he has left behind him . |
| 8 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |
| 9 | In March they returned to England , and he attempted to catch up with all the work and correspondence he had left behind . |
| 10 | And you could bet that the moment he 'd left they 'd sat down in the shade . |
| 11 | ‘ What are you doing up here anyway ? ’ he demanded , leaning over to pick up the towel he had left on the seat . |
| 12 | He and Jennifer had been engaged to be married , then when she had been diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis he had left her and gone to Australia to work . |
| 13 | His mind swung back to the Forest he had left so many years before . |
| 14 | Marius had confessed that he had crippled a Turkish immigrant in Stockholm and Alex was told the registration number of the Land Rover he had left behind at the German frontier when he had deserted . |
| 15 | Before he left , Chagall twisted a coil of stout wire around the door handle twenty-five times , certain that the one hundred and fifty paintings he had left inside would be secure . |
| 16 | He stared steadily outwards towards the ducks and flamingos while Kraal mantled his plumage , let out a harsh call or two and dropped down into the shelter to pick at the remnant of meat he had left over from the previous day . |
| 17 | She pulled away from him , rubbing the mark he had left on her wrist . |
| 18 | In the same circumstances the shooting man would move on to the next burrow with his remaining ferrets while keeping one eye open to watch for the emergence to the surface of any of the muzzled ferrets he had left behind . |
| 19 | On another famous occasion he had left the TV man floundering in his 90-second interview by answering every question with a single yes or no . |
| 20 | Its growth was to cause a storm of protest in the next century from archbishops less inclined to travel than Sigeric ; but we need not doubt that it arose because Sigeric and his like were delighted to have an excuse to go on pilgrimage , and the diary he has left of his movements dwells especially on the many churches in Rome worth a pilgrim 's attention . |
| 21 | In early 1990 , when he was attracting the international attention of the Scotland national coach Andy Roxburgh , the Scottish tabloid press ran a sad and damaging story about the financial catastrophes he had left behind in Glasgow . |
| 22 | Pitman yanked him back on to a true line and managed to steer him clear of the rails , but the two hundred yards he had left to run seemed like two hundred miles , and Red Rum was now only five lengths back . |
| 23 | For the briefest and most uncomfortable moment , he was made to think of the father he 'd left behind in the North of England , a man just widowed and with a stepson whom he disliked intensely . |
| 24 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
| 25 | The next morning he had left us to rejoin his regiment , even before Granpa and I started out for the market . |
| 26 | He 'd stepped out of the house at noon believing the woman he 'd left was devoted to him , and come home five hours later to find the house as it was now . |
| 27 | There is a story that someone once shot a piece out of a glass of beer he had left behind the target , leaving the rest of the glass and the beer intact . |
| 28 | Every driver seemed as ill-tempered as the airline passengers he 'd left behind , his own complaining that his migraine would n't stop until the threatened storm broke . |
| 29 | In time she would forget him , but the legacy of sensual awareness he had left her could prove to be a burden more difficult to shed . |
| 30 | He kept a close watch on friends he had left behind in Middleton , especially Dave Fielding who was enjoying a fair degree of success with The Chameleons . |