Example sentences of "be left a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles , then , was the second brother to be left a widower , after Thomas ; the domestic burden thus falling upon him and his remaining daughters must have been rather a daunting one , including the need to feed , control and educate young Ben , then only nine years old . |
| 2 | Rain water is ideal , tap water needs to be left a few days to mature before stocking . |
| 3 | A fortnight later , bass binding can be very carefully snicked at the side to allow the bud to swell , whereas elastic binding will stretch and can be left a little longer . |
| 4 | Thin sections for etching should be left a little thicker than usual , after being taken down to at least the 600F Carborundum stage . |
| 5 | I 'm left a little cold by sampling and sequencers in general — just as I would n't consider a romantic liaison with my fridge — but I did find myself interested by it all . |
| 6 | And sorry , while I 'm speaking I 'm I 'm left a little confused . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | So if my reprehensible behaviour at Harrogate ( getting drunk at night is OK in the 90s , but not in the afternoon ) was my own fault , and Ladhar Bheinn , Riggindale and Snowdon are blameless in this respect , at least they are left a lasting impression compounding fear , terror and loathing with delight . |
| 9 | They are left a few millimetres thick and lapped flat or polished , using a lapping compound with paraffin oil lubricant . |
| 10 | For us the customers , it will mean higher fares and fewer services as unprofitable and social services are cut and this is only if we are left a train service at all . |
| 11 | She was particularly unlucky to be alone , for she had first married at 18 , but after losing a child had been left a childless widow at 25 . |
| 12 | He will tell you he has been left a better player and a better person . |
| 13 | Playing open chords around the bottom frets feels fine ; the top two strings have been left a little high at the nut , but the E , A , D and G are perfect . |
| 14 | ‘ The club game has always been left a bit behind . |
| 15 | A teenage waitress has been left a £300,000 tip by a man who used to dine at her restaurant . |
| 16 | Like Graham and Sabrina he too had been left a holdall , containing a Geiger-Muller counter and his favourite handgun , a Browning Mk2 , in a locker at the main railway station where he had spent three hours studiously checking the invoices for all the freight loaded at the goods yard over the past ten days . |
| 17 | Two were ‘ career ’ users , one of opioids and one of speed ; one woman 's husband was a dealer ; two other women began to steal from their husband 's ‘ stash ’ without his knowledge ; two were unemployed ; and one had been left a small legacy just prior to his heroin use . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been left a house in France , end of subject , except that it is my intention — ’ |
| 19 | At that moment the door to the next room , which had been left a little ajar , opened and a slim , petite woman came in , elegantly dressed in a blue crêpe de Chine suit that echoed the colour of her eyes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Most writer were left a little bemused by the change and few viewed it with the clarity of Lorraine Edwards in the Nottingham Evening Post . |
| 22 | These fish were left a couple of weeks for the tank and filter to mature . |
| 23 | His new bride , a spinster in her thirties called Elizabeth Shaw , would bring him one further child before being left a widow . |
| 24 | In each of these cases the basic problem is the same : a will has been made , and in it a debtor is left a legacy of liberatio from what he owes the testator . |
| 25 | In his wake is left a highly-professional movie with some excellent knockabout acting and a level of pace and tension which exceeds the breakneck delights of its predecessor . |
| 26 | At the end of it , is all that is left a kind of residual and outmoded cultural tradition which can not stand against capital 's organizational expertise in confronting labour ? |
| 27 | Marie 's left a load of mags behind , so I pick one up and have a flick through it . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Whatever it is , it 's left a pretty burr in your voice . ’ |
| 30 | Sometimes you see someone painting a door or something and get that little bit done there and then they step back to make sure they have n't missed something cos they could be it could be so obvious to anyone who 's just standing , What 's he doing there he 's left a big piece in the corner there that |