Example sentences of "i left " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 2 | I remember when I left Central School in 1966 they said the average life for a woman in the theatre was three years and seven for a man before giving it up . |
| 3 | As I left I asked Marcus to remove his dark glasses so I could look at his face . |
| 4 | I remember the strange feeling I had when I left the square that night , a feeling of finality . |
| 5 | That 's why I left SIS in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | I was offered a cleaning job that I did n't much like the look of so I left quietly before the final curtain . |
| 7 | ‘ When I left to call the police , you mean ? ’ |
| 8 | My parents both died before I left the School of Italian Studies so I had heard nothing about my family for over ten years . |
| 9 | I left the station and started down the road to Harwich town . |
| 10 | I left my last job in rather strange circumstances and that does n't help things . ’ |
| 11 | I could still catch the early train if I left immediately . |
| 12 | ‘ I left lecturing to try and see what the big wide world had to offer , but things never worked out . |
| 13 | While he was out I had rewritten my will so that I left nothing to my ex . |
| 14 | The day I went up to university I left you all , country gentry all … country where my father was stifling . |
| 15 | I left Aisha 's prison in the following way : one day a woman from the same village as Aisha and I came to pick up her sewing machine . |
| 16 | The visitor left , forgetting to take her sewing machine , and I left with her , knowing full well that I would never see Aisha again and that news of my forcing the lock on her cupboard would reach my family and the whole village well amplified , so that I 'd end up accused of stealing all of Aisha 's possessions . |
| 17 | I left the woman 's house as soon as I found work and a room to rent . |
| 18 | I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes . |
| 19 | Not all mine did , so I left them all as thick as possible and matched the thick with the thin later . |
| 20 | Nervously I left the safety of a good peg and did a few free moves towards the next one , 20 feet away on the blank left wall . |
| 21 | ‘ When I left Kuwait , I did n't know what was going to happen to Des . |
| 22 | I left them twisting , turning below ; |
| 23 | When I left the Civil Service in 1987 I was rather pessimistic . |
| 24 | As I left his office a young woman from a Polish theatre company came in to discuss with Welch the principles of controlling ‘ income streams ’ . |
| 25 | I joined Endesha Holland 's class eager to learn ; I left it hating school . |
| 26 | Like Flaubert , I left Belle-Ile hoping to return — and hoping , too , that the island 's isolation and the occasional fogs that cover it would discourage too many other tourists . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd like to be able to say yes I do , but I left so long ago . |
| 28 | ‘ I left in exasperation , ’ he declared . |
| 29 | The important thing , he said , was to stop the opposition scoring four more goals , but I left the restaurant unconvinced . |
| 30 | I left the orchard to visit the Marine Commandos . |