Example sentences of "[noun] had left a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly he removed his mouth , closing her fingers over the spot where his lips had left a burning imprint , a brand on her flesh . |
| 2 | The chisel cut had left a broad , purple , crescent-shaped scar . |
| 3 | His parents had left a village in the mountains near the Albanian border just after the Civil War . |
| 4 | Apart from the fact that the McCarthy purges of alleged Communists had left a bad scar on the film industry , two other developments were eventually to bear much of the blame for the demise of the glitterama of old Hollywood . |
| 5 | He said he had received information from another member of staff that Miss Dixon had left a message on a telephone answering machine about an ‘ untidy kitchen ’ at the nursing home . |
| 6 | Though her temper had run away with her , and she had sent him away , she could not deny that the grim coldness of his departure had left a barren place in her heart . |
| 7 | Blanche had left a message for the sergeant to join her in the editor 's office of Inside Out on the fourth floor . |
| 8 | She claimed the King had left a suicide note for his father , saying he wanted to die because he had cancer and could not face an agonising death . |
| 9 | Hugo had left a full packet of cigarettes by the bed . |
| 10 | And a slug had left a trail across one leg . ’ |
| 11 | Probably the FedPol contingent visiting Vadinamia had left a backup ship in orbit , as they often do . |
| 12 | I wish my father had left a description of his encounter with Balcha but I can find none in his letters or despatches . |
| 13 | I found a niche where a small landslide had left a level lawn with a backing of turf ; and where the breeze still moved enough to allay the midges , and sat down to my picnic . |
| 14 | The colorful chemical and medical reformer Paracelsus ( c. 1493–1541 ) suggested that , in creating the world , God had left a magic sign on every herb — a clue to its efficacy . |
| 15 | The birds had told me Diggs had left a few minutes earlier , so I ran back the quick way to the house , where the lights all burned as usual . |
| 16 | ‘ Their experiences at Darlington had left a bad taste in the mouth . |
| 17 | The police had left a mess in his place : he 'd be busy . |
| 18 | After the incident on avenue Foch , Azadi had left a man to watch in a surveillance car . |
| 19 | A recent survey of domestic burglaries in Northern Ireland , showed that almost half of he victims had left a window open and a similar number had left a door open . |
| 20 | — because his watch had left a clear , sharp-edged mark on his tanned arm . |
| 21 | From my vantage-point I could see exactly where the accident had happened , about sixty yards from the summit , as the cops had left a portable barrier with yellow flashing lights on top to mark the spot . |
| 22 | The end of power-sharing had left a vacuum , which the constitutional convention had failed to fill , and Ulster staggered on with a vicious IRA campaign , tit-for-tat assassinations , unconvincing direct rule , and no obvious sense of direction . |
| 23 | Figures issued by the government on April 13 , 1990 , indicated that the 1989 budget had left a surplus of SFr4,600,000 . |
| 24 | Sam and Duncan McCrea raced down to the street where Lou Collins had left a CIA car should the listeners in the apartment need transport . |
| 25 | But instead , Carla had left a note saying : ‘ I have gone abroad . |
| 26 | Some workmen had left a wooden board on the pavement beside the bus stop and Katy danced on top of it until the bus arrived . |
| 27 | A recent survey of domestic burglaries in Northern Ireland , showed that almost half of he victims had left a window open and a similar number had left a door open . |