Example sentences of "left a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is there in Stanley and the Women , which persuaded Marilyn Butler — somewhat against the odds , but none the less intelligibly — to interpret it in the London Review as a critique of male supremacy , but which has left a very different impression on others . |
| 2 | By the look of him he might well have left a genuine World War Two leather bomber jacket in the bedroom . |
| 3 | Violet has mostly dug up her patch and planted vegetables in it , but she has left a little strip of grass , about three foot long , which she mows with a lawn mower she bought at a jumble sale for two pounds . |
| 4 | She felt tired and cold from all her walking , her shoes badly worn , and without thinking she asked the landlady if he had left a note for her . |
| 5 | The men who tried to civilize these shaggy and uncouth marginalians by bringing them news of civilization have left a certain number of translations that are better reading today than are the works of the ignorant islanders who were too Proud to translate . |
| 6 | As I settled down in the straw-filled barn that I had left a few moments ago in search of food , I looked around at the now sleeping Frenchman , stretched out in the straw . |
| 7 | In Brixton or Toxteth , the black ghettoes of the inner cities , alienation from the police , the government , and the social structure generally left a potentially combustible debris of explosive material . |
| 8 | Marie 's left a load of mags behind , so I pick one up and have a flick through it . |
| 9 | Someone 's left a cup and saucer on the table , and when someone comes round , I pretend I 'm drinking just in case they ask what I 'm doing . |
| 10 | ‘ Their experiences at Darlington had left a bad taste in the mouth . |
| 11 | ‘ She was left a large legacy by an ex-employer . |
| 12 | From his digs at 113 Cowley Road , Thomas wrote his first letter to Harry Hooton : ‘ My dear Mr. Hooton , I matriculated today before the Vice-Chancellor of the University , and , in consequence , I am left a little freer of time and heart : for until then , I feared failure in what turned out to be the easy matric. exam. , and worked to the exclusion of almost all else : which is the explanation of time and heart . ’ |
| 13 | — because his watch had left a clear , sharp-edged mark on his tanned arm . |
| 14 | In the course of time Aunt Nessy , having looked after her adoptive parents until they died , was left a small sum of money . |
| 15 | Ten years ago Eddie Murphy was aged 19 and had just left a job in a shoe store to start on Saturday Night Live , playing a variety of characters including Buck Wheat , Mr. Rogers and Velvet Jones . |
| 16 | The end of power-sharing had left a vacuum , which the constitutional convention had failed to fill , and Ulster staggered on with a vicious IRA campaign , tit-for-tat assassinations , unconvincing direct rule , and no obvious sense of direction . |
| 17 | Reynard Lennon , who had left a trail of confused , temporarily disabled security droids behind him , waited in the shadow of a large rhododendron hybrid in Acropolis Park and watched the Roirbak rotor dance up from the roof , wheel around and head towards Sector 2p . |
| 18 | On Friday it only niggled , as if the chief had departed from a conquered place , and merely left a small garrison behind , or as if he had evacuated the Corsica , and a few straggling pains only remained . |
| 19 | Disagreements in the church about the point at which one could not compromise left a legacy of schisms in the Nile valley and in North Africa , where the rancour of the Donatist schism persisted until the Muslim invasions swept them away four centuries later . |
| 20 | Someone had left a copy of the Sun , and Sergei grabbed it saying , ‘ Ah , your free press ! ’ |
| 21 | They had left a gap in the life of the city . |
| 22 | Climbing the steps through the central arch to the altar-like plinth , I see that someone has left a pot of red begonias . |
| 23 | Out of thirty thousand inhabitants , only about five thousand survived and the city was left a burning wreck . |
| 24 | Mrs Boesky , who was left a fortune by her father Ben Silverstein , who owned a string of properties including Hollywood 's Beverly Hills Hotel , has also been seeking the repossession of her husband 's property in Honolulu . |
| 25 | Walter Troger , a German member of the International Olympic Committee , felt the matter had ‘ left a bitter aftertaste ’ . |
| 26 | Still , we do not come close to one local village which was left a field , the rents from which for centuries provided the poor with half-a-dozen sacks of coal ; but then the village sold its field to a property developer . |
| 27 | From today , we are back to the business of government as usual , with a return to all the huge problems of recession , Europe , health and education where they were left a month ago when the General Election was called . |
| 28 | If a collective ethic is replaced by a personal one , we are not left a landscape without virtue . |
| 29 | Someone had left a copy of the evening paper beside him , and he picked it up and glanced at the headline . |
| 30 | Often the furniture looked lost after he had left a room and because of this Endill soon learnt to tell where his father had been in the house . |