Example sentences of "[noun] that was leave " in BNC.

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1 Erm well I 've got a little cottage that was left to me up in erm North Wales that we rent out .
2 They bought the potatoes and they put them into this machine to mix them up with a couple of pails of water and then they drained all the taters off and left the milk that was left and used that for the baking .
3 So for example when I 've given a pint of blood instead of giving it into a plastic bag with sodium citrate to stop it clotting I 've actually given into a plain glass bottle and when I asked what this for the erm transfusion nurse said that they 're going to let the red cells all clot together at the bottom and use the serum that was left for blood grouping purposes which of course is very important .
4 Perhaps it 's sour grapes , since I have plainly avoided the coup poudre that was left for me .
5 now the girl that was left for er , a , an hour
6 In the evening when they came back he would crumble salt on a flat stone for them to lick , and once , in addition to their hay , he gave them the heap of grain that was left at the bottom of the fermentation jar when the beer was finished .
7 He had his own little boat and do you know where farmers make farrows on the land , the only mark that was left behind by Angus was the mark where he pulled his boat up on to the shore every day that the weather was not too rough .
8 Virginia like most of the mainland colonies consisted of a few ports with an extensive hinterland that was left untouched until the coastal sections had been fairly fully settled .
9 An unnerving experience was witnessed by the train crew of a Class 31 diesel locomotive that was leaving Normanby Park sidings with a train of empty iron-ore hoppers , en route to Immingham docks .
10 The remaining junk paper that was left with Shearson after the junk bond music stopped , will be converted into common stock at the price at which the company goes public .
11 It must have been built to fill a space that was left after the five houses had been completed .
12 As people bustled around him the Doctor had harangued them frantically with all the strength that was left to him .
13 Lucier had taken himself up to the gallery of the chapel — a climb which cost him all the strength that was left him .
14 That Stronsay that was left on that worked on Moars .
15 I had an enormous slice of quiche that was left over from Friday .
16 Although the expressive effect is not easy to pinpoint , one can detect an impression of resultativity , as though the passive abstracts from any particular hearer so that the infinitive evokes the resulting impression that was left with all present .
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