Example sentences of "have left " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I should simply have left it alone for a while . |
| 2 | But anyway , the foreigners would n't have left much . |
| 3 | ‘ She could have left it herself , ’ said Mrs Cornforth . |
| 4 | I must have left it in my handbag and somebody 's stolen it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But the President of the World can have left none of us unmoved by the depth of his feeling . |
| 6 | By the look of him he might well have left a genuine World War Two leather bomber jacket in the bedroom . |
| 7 | Despite the humour , which was lapped up by an appreciative crowd , it was a sad spectacle and one that must have left her regretting her comments , when asked about her chances at Wimbledon . |
| 8 | Rot on the vine ’ ) , its heedlessness ( ‘ with careless hand ’ ) , and its enervation ( its land is ‘ tired ’ , its conquest of that terrain ‘ unmanned ’ ) — that he would like if he could to unravel the threads of history , and become again a citizen of that Old World which his ancestors should never have left . |
| 9 | Despite an approaching typhoon which ordinarily would have left the streets deserted , the march attracted 40,000 people - the largest political demonstration locally for 20 years . |
| 10 | It would have involved his consortium ploughing between £10m and £15m into the troubled Eagle as part of a recapitalisation that would have left them controlling 29.9 per cent of Eagle 's equity . |
| 11 | Two blocks away from the house of her childhood it suddenly occurred to her that her mother might have left , that there might be strangers in the hallway , a different set of curtains hanging at the windows ; her father 's study might have been turned into a playroom for a new generation of North Oxford children , so different from herself in her prim Clark 's T-bar sandals that she would not be able to recognise her own infancy in theirs . |
| 12 | ‘ You must have left it very tight to get here so late , ’ Moran said . |
| 13 | If he 's stopped loving me , surely he would have left me by now ? |
| 14 | They should n't have left me at school . |
| 15 | In London , the Compact has been so successful that children who would previously have left as soon as they reached the school-leaving age of sixteen , are deciding to stay on at school to take further exams . |
| 16 | It will mean that a very substantial number of people who might have left Hong Kong will stay . ’ |
| 17 | With luck , Mr Gorbachev may also have left it too late to make a fourth big mistake : returning his country to dictatorship . |
| 18 | Mr Hallman 's experience at Boeing will have left him well versed in the problems of a large computer-user . |
| 19 | Yet an unsuccessful war in the Gulf might have left Mr Solarz vulnerable to the charge that he had put Israel 's interests above America 's . |
| 20 | Could n't you have left her down there with that woman friend ? ’ |
| 21 | I went through the whole place from top to bottom , cleaning it , polishing the furniture , and making everything just so , as my parents would have left it . |
| 22 | Would they have left it , perhaps , as a memorial ? |
| 23 | Would he just have left me … |
| 24 | Towards dawn , she said to his sleeping back that he loved his employers more than he loved her and if he had been half the man he thought himself , he would have left them rather than abandon her . |
| 25 | The carriage would have left by now . |
| 26 | Fiona agreed unwillingly , ‘ Yes , he would have left his keys . |
| 27 | ‘ I must have left it where we had lunch . |
| 28 | My mother would never have left me without telling me when she would be back . |
| 29 | The quality of the poetry might have left something to be desired , but not the subject matter . |
| 30 | I 'm so sorry , I should n't have left you . |