Example sentences of "left a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So appealing a plant do I find this that I have planted a ‘ fairy ring ’ of eight where the hurricane left a space . |
| 2 | We also left a space for teachers to add any others which had occurred in their school . |
| 3 | The breakdown of corporatism , however , left a space for the introduction of New Right strategies . |
| 4 | When the jet came up from nowhere it left a space devoid of air and we just dropped into it . ’ |
| 5 | Overall revenue to federal government , however , under the terms of a new revenue allocation formula , was expected to be N 25,430 million , which after estimated total federal government expenditure of N 39,760 million , left a deficit of N 14,330 million . |
| 6 | A gunsmith is taking Michael Heseltine , the President of the Board of Trade , to court over a bureaucratic blunder which left a company close to bankruptcy . |
| 7 | Questions poured towards the chair , and Mrs Murphy banged her gavel so hard on the coffee table that it left a mark , which distressed her so much that she forgot for a moment why she was hammering and stared sadly at the dent in the wood . |
| 8 | It left a mark , they could see it now , gleaming on the sand as muddy swell crawled away . |
| 9 | They called us in told us some information about there being no work , then left a pile of envelopes on a table telling us we had been made redundant . |
| 10 | A man who momentarily left a computer game outside his house in Greenbank Road , Darlington , found it had been stolen when he returned . |
| 11 | On the ego it left a stamp which definitively brought about in man the culmination of the long primate evolutionary trend towards dominance of the higher cortical centres over the lower , olfactory ones , and the final emancipation of his fore-limb from locomotion and of his responses from direct chemical stimuli . |
| 12 | But it left a question . |
| 13 | He left a plea behind him : ‘ Stop the killings in Braşov . ’ |
| 14 | Exuberantly believing that he alone was responsible for the separation and still moved by a powerfully purifying sense of goodness and rightness , Hope paid his modest bill the next morning , left a parting note for George , checked himself from asking to see Mary , promised — though he lied — to return and set off at a tremendous pace for Hause Point . |
| 15 | A year later a dramatic attempt to assassinate him left a smoke-trail leading back to Mr Hussein . |
| 16 | It is certainly fortunate for us that the numbers are unequal because , if they had been the same , nearly all the quarks and antiquarks would have annihilated each other in the early universe and left a universe filled with radiation but hardly any matter . |
| 17 | He left a year earlier than he need have done . |
| 18 | She went up to Somerville College , Oxford , in 1917 , but left a year later to join the Women 's Army Auxiliary Corps , and served in France until August 1919 as a hostel forewoman . |
| 19 | Trouble erupted again outside in the street which left a man injured . |
| 20 | A pal said the Crystal Palace captain left a man bleeding from the face after a brawl outside a south London nightspot . |
| 21 | Monet , that most impassioned adherent of the theory , invariable finished off what in effect were initially sketches in his studio , possessed three cameras , and on his death left a mass of photographic prints — several of Rouen cathedral , the subject of one of his most famous ‘ series ’ . |
| 22 | The tide had passed its peak and left a mass of debris behind , including the long , bony body of the undertaker , lodged in a miniature gully , apparently wedged between the rocks . |
| 23 | They left a tent there , with a Norwegian flag on it . |
| 24 | One of them left a couple of minutes later to buy a newspaper . |
| 25 | I left a couple of months ago , at the end of March . ’ |
| 26 | As the style passed , Glam left a couple of stings in its tail . |
| 27 | She left a couple of days later , with the kid . ’ |
| 28 | Well at that time you did n't leave out money so you just left a couple of tokens tokens |
| 29 | If er if you were going out and you knew the coal man might be round that day so you just left a couple of coal tokens out at the door or whatever . |
| 30 | The discovery of more stable chemicals ( Table 3 ) — the true residual insecticides — which were sprayed on to the walls and roofs of dwellings and left a deposit that was lethal to mosquitoes resting on it for many weeks and even months , produced the ideal control that did not demand an impossibly high efficiency . |