Example sentences of "it had been leave " in BNC.

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1 It had been left in beautiful order — carpets , central heating , furniture , thick curtains .
2 In the 1960s the Northern Ireland Labour Party ( NILP ) was on the verge of becoming a significant political force , despite the fact that it had been left to fend for itself in very difficult circumstances .
3 It had been left to a nephew of Lucy Trigg 's , also a naval man , who put it in the hands of a London estate agent to sell for him whilst he was abroad .
4 It had been left with a blue towel wrapped around its waist and legs but was otherwise uncovered .
5 Very occasionally she would come and tell me that it had been left so immaculate that she 'd had almost nothing to do and instead would remove some of the dust in the melin for us .
6 She found the green carpet in a neighbouring flat , after it had been left empty .
7 But life was over ; it had been left irretrievably behind before the war , and with it an animation which could never be resurrected , if it had been at all .
8 If it had been left to me I would have put him out on the street long ago .
9 It had been left on the bar : Please give this to Mr Sam Pascoe . ’
10 In the West it had been left to researchers outside of the mainstream AI community .
11 In accordance with his instructions it had been left as it was , forlorn , unwashed , the crumpled clothes .
12 She wished more than anything that she could say yes , or at least explain that if it had been left to her she would have come with all the will in the world , but there was her mother .
13 There was a table beside it and a pipe lay on top as if it had been left just for a moment .
14 It had been left on the terrace this time , anchored down by a stone .
15 It had been left to Halifax — surely not by accident — to broadcast a rejection on the radio .
16 She had barely slept last night — even what little of it had been left when she had finally crawled beneath the bedcovers .
17 If it had been left any longer he could have been in serious trouble .
18 Even the gaping hole left by de Bonneval 's precipitate retreat on Belleville Ridge had been plugged before the over-cautious Germans could exploit it — although it had been left open for twelve hours .
19 I had one repaired for Susannah , it had been left to her by an aunt and she had managed to smash it against a post or something and broke the shank and knocked out one of the erm , stones , so on and so forth , and eh , together with some repairs on a charm bracelet I had to pay thirty seven pounds for the whole jolly lot .
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