Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be left [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | could n't I have been left alone |
| 2 | The Russian America 's Cup yacht , Age of Russia , which has been left stranded in San Diego , could be destroyed without ever being launched , let alone raced . |
| 3 | What the formula has to do is to compare the title of the project in column B ( which has been left blank until this point ) with the column labels in columns F , G , H and so on . |
| 4 | Republican candidate Thomas Ewing on July 2 secure election to the House of Representatives seat for Illinois which had been left vacant by the appointment , confirmed in March , of Edward Madigan as Secretary for Agriculture . |
| 5 | In several respects this period witnessed a working out of the legacy of the Civil War , and many of the issues which were to cause political division in English society under the later Stuarts stemmed from problems which had been left unresolved by the Restoration of 1660 . |
| 6 | For example , the speaker might make explicit assumptions which had been left implicit in the original , or have contrasted the lecturer 's position with one with which the hearer is more familiar . |
| 7 | He said McMullan hurled the bomb while McCrory stood with him and the two men escaped through Garland 's garden and house , the doors of which had been left open as pre-arranged . |
| 8 | The source of the leak was eventually traced to a vent which had been left open , and firemen hosed down the affected areas . |
| 9 | The source of the leak was eventually traced to a vent which had been left open , and firemen hosed down the affected areas . |
| 10 | On July 5 it was announced that the ruling Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) had secured five of the 10 mayoralities of provincial capitals which had been left undecided in June pending investigations into alleged voting irregularities . |
| 11 | Here the Atlantic waves , funnelled into the shore by the surrounding cliffs , crash over huge boulders which have been left stranded on the beach by millions of years of erosion . |
| 12 | She has been left alone to lead something approaching a normal life now and then . |
| 13 | But she has been left stranded after thieves stole the blue Yamaha XT600 from the car park of a Southport hotel . |
| 14 | That 's for things like looking after babies who 've been left alone too long , or playing with little kids who get lonely . |
| 15 | And another wave of chill wrapped her ; yes , she had been left untouched , though she had cleaved to his seal like hot wax and his pigment had painted her stomach the colour of the moon . |
| 16 | She left him confused , just as she had been left confused . |
| 17 | When she had been little , once Fenna had taught her how to fly so that she no longer went wandering off , there had been very little time when she had been left alone . |
| 18 | So many nights when she had been left alone . |
| 19 | ‘ I heard on Wednesday from a neighbour that she had been left alone by her mother who had gone to Spain . |
| 20 | And she had been left bereft , broken-hearted . |
| 21 | As she had been left penniless , the Home and Colonial Society made an unusual arrangement for her , organizing a teaching position at a school in Worthing before she had completed her training . |
| 22 | In the 1960s the emphasis was on labour-intensive industries such as textiles and consumer electronics to employ the thousands of workers who had been left redundant by the withdrawal of the British . |
| 23 | The coffee stall proved to be very successful and R. T. Smith , who had a heart of gold and a knack of handling welfare problems , gave up his job with Thornycroft 's , in order to found , in 1880 , the Chiswick Mission and he was successful in finding homes for children who had been left motherless , but were not eligible to be accepted into orphanages . |
| 24 | A politics of the future has to engage with , learn from , the new , never to be simply satisfied with tracking opinion polls or empty gestures but empowering those who have been left cold by all our agendas . |
| 25 | Except for one or two magistrates like Peck we 've been left alone , and have never done anything to trouble those who live around the forest . ’ |
| 26 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |
| 27 | Not one single thing she had brought with her had been left untouched . |
| 28 | Ever since that night when , with their father away inspecting a distant building site , they had been left alone in the house for the first time , and the ‘ broth ’ had decided to wreak mayhem . |
| 29 | In an emotional response to the 2–0 defeat in Boston which piled on the agony after an identical scoreline in the World Cup in Norway a week earlier , Taylor knows he has been left naked to the most virulent attacks by media and fans . |
| 30 | Freud 's thought is , at this point , at the very general level of the human species ' evolutionary development , and it has been left undeveloped by analysts who have been preoccupied with individuals , even though there is only the hope of some alleviation of their troubles , given Freud 's own analysis of civilization . |