Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] have left " in BNC.

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1 When the crowds had left after the second home match , Chapman met the helpers in the stand and asked them to take him on trust , asserting that the changes were in the club 's interest .
2 Here and there the way opened into glades , in one of which the woodmen had left the trunk of a once mighty beech .
3 The UK , which had reduced its embassy staff in Baghdad from 24 to six in early January , had also brought out its ambassador ( Harold Walker , who left on Jan. 10 ) and remaining personnel following the failure of the Jan. 9 Baker-Aziz talks ; the Germans had left on Jan. 8 , and according to Le Monde of Jan. 15 France was the only EC country with diplomatic representation still in place in Baghdad .
4 After the prisoners had left , some boys , feeling rather brave , entered the building to see if there was anything left in it .
5 She was relieved to see that her son 's tour of the palaces had left his eyes shining and he greeted her with something approaching his normal smile .
6 I have heard that the house is inhabited , and that it is now a farmhouse ; but not a human being in sight anywhere near it ; the ploughmen have left the fields , the farm buildings are deserted .
7 Parked somewhere nearby would be a couple of police vans with sniffer dogs and cordoning off parts of the street had become so commonplace that the cops had left reels of white tape and tripods at strategic points just in case .
8 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 .
9 That so far the outlaws had left them alone and kept out of sight troubled them all , this was so unexpected that it increased their fears rather than diminished them .
10 What 's worse is that before he died all the people who looked after the animals had left and got jobs with other circuses .
11 The English with their Scottish support had breakfasted well ; the Highlanders had left their supplies at Nairn , and were cold and unfed .
12 Come on away from the foxes , picks up any bits the foxes have left and then he get 's an upset stomach and that 's another thirty pounds at the vet .
13 So , a victory for Oxford United ; it came after a few of the supporters had left the ground , it came in injury time — Oxford United one , Portsmouth nil , reporting on the match , a very happy Nick Harris .
14 After the gentlemen had left , I entered my room and locked the door .
15 In the latter case the parties have left much unsaid , e.g. as to delivery , payment , the transfer of ownership , the quality of the goods , etc .
16 Almost before the words had left her mouth , she felt a stab of excitement .
17 She knew she had said the wrong thing the minute the words had left her mouth .
18 At the time , many Israelis believed their government 's explanation that the Arabs had left either of their own free will or at the behest of their leaders .
19 A year in the gaols had left its mark .
20 About a hundred people work here now and the months in the hands of the administrators have left them fearful
21 Not long afterwards , when the visitors had left , Chola fetched the rugs from the inner room and the family lay down around the fire and slept .
22 ‘ Everyone from the Rats has left the country really bitter , ’ explained Bono .
23 Silas had visited his stepmother , even if the circumstances had left much to be desired .
24 Well I there there was a a classic example of this during the refurbishments when the contractors had left the building unsecured over
25 The crowd , swelled by reporters , photographers and cameramen from the local and national press and media , dispersed quietly after the parents had left .
26 The closure of the unit in the mid-1980s has left a large and unfilled worldwide gap .
27 Continuous modifications over the years have left the present course as a lovely example of rural heathland golf .
28 In Washington , US Administration officials said the soldiers — members of the elite Green Berets — feared the rebels had left booby traps behind and waited for Salvadorean troops to work their way to the sixth floor , on which the soldiers were trapped .
29 The detective inspector went on , in tones totally devoid of emphasis , ‘ Unfortunately Dr Iverson went out after the dinner-party to pay a late visit to a man with pneumonia about whom he was worried an so can not tell us anything about the time immediately after the guests had left .
30 Doing the rooms in the morning fell into an easy rhythm — make the bed , tidy up anything the guests had left around , dust the tops , wash up the teacups if they 'd been used , clean the washbasin , put out fresh tea bags and sachets of coffee , sugar and milk powder , then go round with the Hoover .
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