Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] have left " in BNC.

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1 Philpott watched them leave then stared at the folder Kolchinsky had left with him .
2 Some of the brothers were busy in the scriptorium but I was greeted courteously and no one objected when I began to leaf through the manuscript Southgate had left upon the table .
3 No wonder Rosie had left .
4 Relaxed and without the miserable depression of the previous few evenings , Julia pulled herself out of the water , rubbed herself vigorously with the hard , thin towel Annunziata had left there for her and went to dress .
5 By the end of the war Winnicott had left the actual practice of physical paediatrics behind , his outpatient clinic at Paddington Green becoming in effect a department of child psychiatry based on psychodynamic theory and on his particular way of using it .
6 Is n't it a shame Dick 's left !
7 A week before the overdose his wife Mary had left him and taken their two children with her .
8 However , one night Isis had left the casket unattended and by chance when out hunting Seth discovered it .
9 TIM Godwin 's wife Julie had left for her South African holiday barely hours earlier and already he was missing her badly .
10 Before eight o'clock that morning Fabia had left the hotel and was at Prague railway station .
11 All I had to eat was some chocolate Tony had left in the car , washed down by a can of beer in the freeze compartment .
12 He took a pristine white handkerchief out of his pocket and rubbed at the faint hand-print Kenneth had left on the glass partition as he said , ‘ These passivation glasses are of much use in the semi-conductor industry , and we have high hopes that with the burgeoning of the Scottish computer industry Silicon Glen as it is sometimes jocularly called — we shall shortly be supplying … ’
13 Our older daughter Rebecca had left an unlikely farrago of peas , cottage cheese , baked beans and pasta in a tomato sauce .
14 THERE was a resounding message sent to Steve Cram , the man England have left out of the Commonwealth Games team , from the Scottish Indoor Championships yesterday .
15 The daughter Nora had left her post as an English teacher in a German school before Easter .
16 Jasper had a limp look , and Bert was morose even before he re d the letter Pat had left for him .
17 And Peregrine Worsthorne has left her the word ‘ embonpoint ’ , which he used in court , among other circumlocutions , to describe her appeal .
18 She thought of the way Guy had left her just now without a word of reassurance or explanation .
19 Happily there was no quick cash-in when ROY ORBISON died just before Christmas 1988 , and his widow Barbara has left it four years before releasing his posthumous album KING OF HEARTS ( Virgin ) .
20 Kurt Nicoll ignored medical advice not to ride after a practice crash on the factory KTM had left him with a rib injury .
21 Like so many others , by this time Millend had left the cloth trade and , in this case , been turned over to corn and saw milling .
22 And by the time Cornelius had left the playground and taken to the street , his feet were up and the cigarettes were out .
23 I scarcely met him during my time at COHQ ( 1944–46 ) ; by that time Mountbatten had left , the influence of COHQ had much declined and Zuckerman had more important jobs to do .
24 Dr R. D. Bagnall replies : My student chemistry days were in fact spent at Birmingham in the 1960s , by which time Howarth had left , but there was still a thriving carbohydrate group .
25 His mother Christine had left him playing with toys at the surgery while she had an injection .
26 By the look of him , however , his chief had not perhaps shared a similarly successful period of recuperation , for he sounded tetchy as he picked up the brief note Lewis had left him .
27 By that time Tommy had left us and the Chief Met Officer was a man called Mr Donaldson .
28 In fact Dewey had left unassigned the section 539 , in the physics schedules , allowing , very fortunately , for future developments , and it was only later that the new subjects received their allotted positions in subsequent editions of the scheme .
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