Example sentences of "[adv] have left " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't look old enough to have left senior school ! ’ |
| 2 | The metal clips that held the pages together had left smears of rust on the paper . |
| 3 | That principle was enlisted where a disposition was defective , and rested on the fiction that the nuncupatio had been correctly performed but the copyist who had noted it down had left something out . |
| 4 | Some visitors may have proved to be undesirable or objectionable , or perhaps have left without paying their bill , and therefore it is essential that this type of guest be blacklisted for future reference . |
| 5 | Though property-disputes were no doubt very often settled informally , through arbitration by senior family-members , for instance , and so have left no trace in the written record , some recorded cases arose over property-claims held or transmitted through women , especially widows . |
| 6 | The Great Spirit above has left me and my people to their fate . |
| 7 | ‘ All I know is that he would not have left Rhodes without marriage . |
| 8 | On the day after President Shagari 's arrival in Britain , one UpN state newspaper reported nothing of the visit , commenting instead in an editorial that he should not have left the country at a time when the doctors were on strike : it had been ‘ unpatriotic ’ for him to do so . |
| 9 | Chafe suggests two variables which can be used to determine whether an item may or may not have left the addressee 's consciousness : |
| 10 | ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury . |
| 11 | More , it would not have left him out of his wits above a quarter of an hour at the longest . |
| 12 | In fact it seems more likely that Picasso felt that the Demoiselles as he decided to accept or leave it represented a truly astonishing challenge with which he himself must come to terms ; obviously if he had been dissatisfied with the look of the painting he would not have left it as it is , and it has been argued that the stylistic discrepancies within the painting are essential to its iconography , to the message which it is intended to convey . |
| 13 | ‘ Even so , she is my responsibility and I could not have left her here alone . ’ |
| 14 | She is a cold , unfeeling and unresponsive woman : she must be , or Hugo would not have left her for me . |
| 15 | Surely if Portia really cared for him , she would not have left romantically with Bassanio thus leaving Antonio alone , but taken Antonio with them . |
| 16 | The intention had been to give the premiere of Sea Change at Sadler 's Wells to open the Theatre Ballet 's new season there , but it was thought that by then John would already have left for New York to take part in the Sadler 's Wells Ballet 's first American tour , so the decision was made to present the ballet first on 18 July 1949 at the Gaiety Theatre , Dublin , where the company concluded its summer tour . |
| 17 | Channel 4 says the show recognises its audience may already have left sexual theory behind and moved on to the practical side of the subject . |
| 18 | Would he just have left me … |
| 19 | But , instead of being able to sit back and enjoy this baby , she has also to look after the other children who may only just have left the baby stage themselves . |
| 20 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |
| 21 | The old man said , ‘ You 'll soon have left us . |
| 22 | In Wildfowl Hall who told her that really she ought not to have left her husband |
| 23 | The resolution was repealed on Oct. 21 , although some Chechen families were said already to have left for Grozny ( capital of Chechnia ) . |
| 24 | Dr Alethea Ward had known this , and thus had left her money , some of which eventually Liz Ablewhite had inherited . |
| 25 | But in following him through that aim , we nevertheless have left untouched some of the ideas for which he is famous . |
| 26 | Perhaps the best comparison is that of seasickness … finally one abandons one 's self to it , one has no longer even the strength to cover oneself with one 's pack as protection against splinters , and one scarcely still has left the strength to pray to God … |
| 27 | So Nigel Mansell has made a grand prix comeback without ever having left . |
| 28 | She went close and bent over Midnight , scolding herself for ever having left him . |
| 29 | ‘ The reason I 'm calling , actually , is that my wallet seems to have disappeared and I wondered whether I could possibly have left it there . ’ |
| 30 | I could always have left him . |