Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] left [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I admit I should have left a message , but I assumed I would be seeing you shortly , and — hell , I never expected you to mind . |
| 2 | It is curious that a much-employed binder , as he obviously was , should have left no trace in the records . |
| 3 | Fidelma should have left the room some five minutes before , but she was fiddling with the silver milk jug and sugar basin so that she did n't miss anything . |
| 4 | I do not wish to appear uncharacteristically churlish , but I wonder whether I alone raised an eyebrow when the hon. Member for Eastbourne ( Mr. Bellotti ) questioned whether the Secretary of State should have left the debate after an hour when the hon. Gentleman has been the only member of his party to be here throughout the debate — until the hon. Member for Liverpool , Mossley Hill ( Mr. Alton ) scuttled in towards the end of his speech . |
| 5 | We arrived here yesterday from Flinders at which place I was especially gratified to [ word not clear ] my acquaintance with the Natives and other things , and I should have left the island with a light heart and proceeded to Kings had [ not ] a fatal accident happened to one of the men who shot himself dead by incautiously pulling the gun from the boat with the muzzle toward his chest , the cock of the gun caught the seat of the boat and all was over with the poor fellow in half a minute . |
| 6 | He should have left the bloody things off because they 're gon na have to take them off if they have their carpets down and might have to have something planed off them or something might n't they ? |
| 7 | Isabelle must have left a legacy of frightening bitterness behind her in this place in order to set off a reaction like that . |
| 8 | ‘ I must have left a hole somewhere , because one has slipped through — straight into my heart . ’ |
| 9 | Who he was she could n't say , because the room was too dark , but he must have left the front door open and the wind must have caught it and made it shut with a crash . |
| 10 | And yet , the letters were signed ‘ S. ’ for Sandra Kettering , and Sandra must have left the typed note of her most private intentions in the Piero book opposite ‘ The Flagellation ’ . |
| 11 | He must have left the study shortly after herself , and practically sprinted up here . |
| 12 | I was told , back in those days , that he had built a working steam model of the locomotive to go with the coaches , but this must have left the district some years earlier , as my father never saw it , and never met John Griffiths , though he knew of Ernest from about 1910 , having started his articles in that office . |
| 13 | ‘ I must have left the garage door open . |
| 14 | ‘ The caller must have left the receiver off . |
| 15 | Though ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ itself might have left a little to be desired , if was impossible not to enjoy the accompanying media panic . |
| 16 | She might have left a cigarette lit . |
| 17 | It 's , might have left a note on . |
| 18 | Well , the cleaners ought to be at work ; and they might have left the outer door open . |
| 19 | I might have left the discotheque and I 'd have never met that man . |
| 20 | Curtis Price ingeniously suggests that the singing actress for whom this song was written might have left the company by 1693 ; but on the omission of the Plaint he does not comment . |
| 21 | If they had agreed with British Airways , I could understand that they might have left the issue alone , but they might have come to different conclusions and taken different action . |
| 22 | He might have left the city altogether . ’ |
| 23 | Shelley went in to speak quietly to her patients , trying to push to the back of her mind the knowledge that she might have left the drug cupboard open in her anxiety yesterday . |
| 24 | Anyway , I got through this tricky interval , and even the sea co-operated for once , coming in just after the explosion and sweeping away any tell-tale tracks I might have left an hour or more before Diggs arrived from the village to inspect the scene . |
| 25 | Frank Lindo replied that he could have left the cinema later than 5.30 , but he had definitely heard Drew in the theatre at 6.00 . |
| 26 | I could have left the background editor open and used embedding to place the background , but it 's better to keep it as a file . |
| 27 | Elaine could have delivered the night before — after midnight , to have the same date of birth — and perhaps Mrs Maybury was n't on duty that night — and Elaine could have left the next day , so Mrs Maybury was telling the truth when she said she 'd never seen her . ’ |
| 28 | I do n't remember him , I suppose he could have left the van unguarded for a moment . |
| 29 | So he could have left the barn where it was ? |
| 30 | Assuming Melanie 's aunt did move from Cherry Cottage , she may have left a forwarding address with the new owners . ’ |