Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] left " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps he 'd left it too late . |
| 2 | There was still a job to do , and although it might not seem much in comparison to the past , it was all he had left . |
| 3 | It was all he had left to bind him to reality . |
| 4 | And so he 'd left London , to come here , hoping to lick the closing wise wound of whatever talent it was he had . |
| 5 | So he 's left he left her ? |
| 6 | Tonight he had left her with a few unanswered questions , and speculations buzzing around her brain . |
| 7 | A minute later he had left the village . |
| 8 | He was married , you see , but he told me today he 'd left his wife . |
| 9 | Today he 'd left that hotel . |
| 10 | ‘ Finished it , ’ he concluded for her , and Leith knew then that if Naylor Massingham had been looking to find fault with her work then plainly he 'd left no stone unturned . |
| 11 | His name was on the voters ' list as occupying Moat Hall , the small mansion Burden had found deserted , but plainly he had left it months before . |
| 12 | His wife , Pamela , whom fortunately he had left behind , was an acid-tongued woman who managed a fleet of launderettes . |
| 13 | Now if the child can not interpret and relate the symbols to the animal , then he 's left wondering what the symbols mean , he ca n't relate the symbols to understanding that a cow is spelt verbally as C O W , and he 's left quite mystified , and he does n't know what we 're talking about . |
| 14 | ‘ Marius wrote a letter to his son last November — this is a copy of it — complaining in humble terms about how he 'd left himself short by the gift and not taken inflation into account , and would Nigel let him have a small income from various shares and properties ? |
| 15 | Maybe he 'd left the stage of his own accord . |
| 16 | But Joyce 's abortive service in the regiment dated from the following year , when he had left Ireland for good and when the Anglo-lrish Treaty was in force . |
| 17 | Last week , when he had left Joe Hyde in the bookshop , he had more or less made up his mind not to attend the meeting of the Irish sympathizers planned for this night . |
| 18 | She remembered Havvie 's last words when he had left her that afternoon , and knew that what he had said was true . |
| 19 | He had been a member of the New Wafd until 1984 , when he had left the party in protest at its electoral alliance with the Moslem Brotherhood . |
| 20 | Since when he 'd left her alone again , and Dolly was having to put up with the April breeze . |
| 21 | He would have to be seen a.s.a.p. , and would have to come up with a satisfactory explanation of exactly why and when he 'd left The Randolph . |
| 22 | Laura almost groaned out loud as she recalled Ross 's reassuring words when he 'd left for London two days ago . |
| 23 | Whatever else he had left her , Ember ( the name was oddly freighted with inferences of his mass , his power , the clean safe smell of him ) had let her know indirectly that they were a threat . |
| 24 | And talking of books , The Forest and the Fire still lay on the pillow where he had left it , before getting undressed . |
| 25 | We were proud to welcome Wayne C. Fairbrother who survived after 188 days wandering round a Birmingham multi-storey car park trying to remember where he had left his blue Sierra . |
| 26 | Endill climbed to the shelf where he had left the cough mixture and saw that it had gone . |
| 27 | Mariana had moved to the table where he had left the map . |
| 28 | This way , it was going to be fairly obvious that someone had emptied a bottle of bleach into the punch but , since Henry could not possibly have a motive for murdering the whole of Maple Drive ( as far as the police were concerned , anyway ) , it would be relatively easy for him to gasp in horror and dismay and to take the Wimbledon CID around the places where he had left the bowl of punch unattended . |
| 29 | It was considerably more than the hour Friar Tuck had reckoned on when he and the Trapper emerged on the track where he had left Marian and Allen . |
| 30 | Marian was not where he had left her . |