Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] left [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Now that I 've left the army , I 'll soon be down in the fields with you again , ’ said Troy lightly .
2 ‘ Or would I start screaming that I 'd left a soufflé in the oven , or forgotten to get the coat back from the cleaners , or I was too young to die … ’
3 Then , after I 'd made sure that I 'd left no telltale traces , I was off .
4 As I settled down in the straw-filled barn that I had left a few moments ago in search of food , I looked around at the now sleeping Frenchman , stretched out in the straw .
5 Now that I had left the college dormitory I used to look fearfully from rime to time out of my window , expecting to see that gang of fascist students coming to beat me up .
6 I believe now the driver — I did n't see who it was — was checking that I had left the pub .
7 Only when she was out of sight and I had turned a corner did I remember that I had left the little willow leaf from her body lying upstairs on her Sophocles .
8 And I 'd left the gates open an oh it was Friday !
9 And I 've left a bit .
10 As you must know , Barbara and I had left the Black Swan before she drowned . ’
11 The result of the calculation that er I think appropriate is that one finds twenty hours a week , seven pounds an hour , thirty seven weeks a year comes out I hope at five thousand , one hundred and eighty pounds , to that should be added four hundred and forty five pounds national insurance contributions and I have left the advertising fees at the same amount two hundred pounds .
12 If I had left the move till later it would probably have been much more traumatic .
13 That 's cos I 've left the thing off ?
14 But I have left the profession temporarily .
15 I then clicked on the Auto Summation icon and the results were instantly inserted — and because I had left an empty row between the data and the row in which I wanted the totals , a ruling was automatically added .
16 They had made the transition to college ‘ inhabitants ’ in the two years since I had left the borough .
17 My involvement with the tunnel did not extend to the rail link which was decided after I had left the department .
18 After I had left the laboratory , I escaped into the country outside the town .
19 There was an Audi which passed me soon after I 'd left the pub .
20 When I 'd left the horse in the yard and gone in for breakfast I found both Mackie and Sam Yaeger sitting at the table with Tremayne , all of them discussing that day 's racing at Nottingham .
21 I was thinking when I 've left the school if anything else happens I 'll just feel really pissed off and I 'm gon na write a letter and say , you know , now I 've left the school
22 But as soon as I had left the building , James and the Old Man and all the ties and affections of my ex-job began to blur .
23 I lay there trying to square what I heard with the new enthusiasm derived from Edward and Laura , for I 'd left the Lodge around two in the morning , ready to set off with them the next day in search of the horizon .
24 It is as though I have left the dull class rooms of the world and the discordant sound of the trampling feet and I have reached a place far from men where my mind is moved by universal rhythms .
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