Example sentences of "[noun] had left " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from Selkirk , they were alone , for Corbett had left Ranulf and the escort to relax and refresh themselves . |
| 2 | Time had gone quickly , and she had n't even noticed when Dr Rafaelo had left . |
| 3 | Jinkwa had left the command vehicle under the control of the Environments Officer and ventured forth in a scouting party with two of his troopers . |
| 4 | Dr Neil had left the kitchen , to finish his toilet , presumably . |
| 5 | The stroke had left Marriage hunched and rigid ; he turned his head slowly and his smile had become a lopsided leer . |
| 6 | Everything about the odd relic suggested that Morthen had left it as a deliberate sign . |
| 7 | But the fighting had left the British and French armies even weaker . |
| 8 | And the tidal wave of emotion had left her drained for days . |
| 9 | Some from , a lot from the heavens , because it rained for a solid week after the excavator had left and erm from the springs , it 's a natural water-gathering area . |
| 10 | What 's worse is that before he died all the people who looked after the animals had left and got jobs with other circuses . |
| 11 | Innerd took over as Palace 's captain in 1906 after Ted Birnie had left us and he led us to several marvellous FA Cup triumphs , including the fabulous 1–0 Will at the home of his former club , and League champions , Newcastle United in January 1907 . |
| 12 | He promised that the resistance would not lay down its arms until the last Soviet soldier had left Afghanistan and that if a deal was made over their heads the guerrillas would continue fighting even if foreign help were withdrawn . |
| 13 | I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump . |
| 14 | When the car had left the front door and they had promised to behave , Michael was sent to check on Mrs Murphy , up to her sleeves in the sink . |
| 15 | The small airstrip was well away from the house and even before they turned to land a car had left the property and was heading out to meet them . |
| 16 | Angie Bowie : ‘ By this time , David had left Ken Pitt and was with Tony DeFries . |
| 17 | She looked round her bedroom and saw that David had left his wristwatch on her bedside table ; the scent of the citrus aftershave he used still hung in the air and when finally , in despair , she turned and buried her head in the pillow , the bed beneath her was still warm with the imprint of his body . |
| 18 | ‘ But why did you let us all go on thinking that David had left you ? ’ |
| 19 | The key was on top of the frame where the lazy agent had left it , another Yale on a big paper tag . |
| 20 | I was so relieved to see the fear had left him that I would not have minded had he asked me to get into bed with him . |
| 21 | She had all that to fill her heart with but at this moment all she could think of was that the stranger had left her side . |
| 22 | She believed the department had left itself extremely vulnerable in acting without any form of approval by the committee . |
| 23 | Budd Hopkins delivered what they wanted — and endless stream of stories about abductions , accompanied by sketches of the aliens and bizarre slides of the tiny wounds their probings had left on victims ' bodies . |
| 24 | Coffin turned over the papers and messages that Jean had left on his own desk . |
| 25 | But the chambermaid Miss Kenton had left in attendance stood up upon seeing me and began to shake my father 's shoulder . |
| 26 | She said he did n't have an enemy in the world and that his murder had left the whole family devastated . |
| 27 | Peter Heatherston , the Raith captain , quipped that the player-manager 's brace of goals had left the squad dreading the week ahead in training . |
| 28 | Above the nervous chatter that continued once the corporal had left , Charlie could hear the last post being played on a bugle from the castle battlements . |
| 29 | According to the Financial Times ( London ) , fighting between the rival supporters had left more than 1,000 dead in the Johannesburg area since August 1990 , and 3,000 dead in Natal province since mid-1987 . |
| 30 | So , a victory for Oxford United ; it came after a few of the supporters had left the ground , it came in injury time — Oxford United one , Portsmouth nil , reporting on the match , a very happy Nick Harris . |