Example sentences of "had [adv] left " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had since left the New York City Ballet , and was working as a counsellor for the blind at both the Lighthouse and the Jewish Guild . |
| 2 | Mr Smith said Mr Curren had since left the pub and Spanswick had not been in touch with him since the incident . |
| 3 | At one time he tried to assemble his thoughts in some way ; would it be better to go back to a law-office stool , with prospects of promotion , such as he had thankfully left to go to Glasgow , to Oxford , then to London ? |
| 4 | Her eyes had rarely left his face , although he was now tramping about the room , gesticulating as he talked . |
| 5 | He found him in a couple of minutes , before he had properly left the house . |
| 6 | It was true she 'd avoided him , had gladly left him to Merry , but it had n't occurred to her that he might be aware of that . |
| 7 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 8 | Just before leaving France in 1940 he had given a final dinner party at the Ritz in Paris to members of his unit , but had inadvertently left without paying the bill . |
| 9 | The tape recorder sat on the table between a fluted glass containing an artificial rose and the giant black pepper grinder the waiter had inadvertently left behind . |
| 10 | But Pepin had perhaps left his first-born , Charles , superior in power to Carloman , though they ruled jointly from 768 to 772 . |
| 11 | He had a cat flap in the flat door if he wanted to get into the rest of the house and Fenella had thoughtfully left my kitchen window wide open so he could come and go that way via the flat roof of the kitchen extension next door . |
| 12 | They had all left wives and children behind . |
| 13 | When they had all left and her father , the grave-digger , had filled up the grave , Nigel would be alone . |
| 14 | Now it had all left her . |
| 15 | After they had all left — Dad too — Mum hung Granny 's death card beneath her picture then went off to join the others in the local . |
| 16 | When they had all left , the Adjutant removed the unwanted files and the Captain sat back in his chair , musing . |
| 17 | ( they had all left Iran for the United States a few weeks before their parents ) . |
| 18 | The twins , who had only left the Pony Club two years ago , pushed off to see their old chums . |
| 19 | When the constable first entered the Chequers , albeit in plain clothes , Slatter , the local man , had obviously left James in no doubt who they were . |
| 20 | Somebody had obviously left it in the cubicle . |
| 21 | The sun had suddenly left the Lock . |
| 22 | Traffic had long left the streets . |
| 23 | It deteriorated very much on Uncle John 's death , but by then I had long left to live elsewhere . |
| 24 | For dread — the old , quivering dread that she thought she had long left behind her — was settling in her bosom . |
| 25 | He explained that there never had been a bottle of perfume , but he had made the first call in front of his wife who was now quite happy because she thought her husband had merely left her birthday present behind , not , as he had actually done , completely forgotten her birthday . |
| 26 | But Simon had never got beyond page 27 , and after that he had merely left the book out in case his mother and stepfather came unexpectedly for drinks . |
| 27 | It occurred to me that I should perhaps wait for my daughter Sophie outside her school , to make sure she understood that I had not abandoned her , had merely left Lou for a man who loved me and would make me happy ; that things would presently calm down , and as soon as Hugo and I had sorted things out a little and established our new home she could join us . |
| 28 | The morning 's adventure had apparently left him in hot water with the lady of the moment . |
| 29 | Some had already left because pay was so far in arrears . |
| 30 | She had already left the show , but the rumours persisted that she was very fond of handsome Aussie stars Alan Dale and Ian Smith . |