Example sentences of "to the left " in BNC.
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| 1 | She paused at the mantelpiece to move a small cactus a couple of inches to the left . |
| 2 | To the left was a dinosaur of a stone pulpit , all arched and ornamented . |
| 3 | At least a third of the route takes the steep open wall to the left of the corner and the climb as a whole demands a wide range of climbing technique . |
| 4 | To the left of this peak was Koitobos Col , a low gap in the crater rim , and we aimed straight across the top of the valley towards it . |
| 5 | Future Neil Kinnocks — or David Blunketts or Michael Meachers or even Ken Livingstones — will find that their best strategy in their early years in national politics will be to act and speak in a way that appeals to ordinary television-watching , newspaper-reading Labour Party members , rather than to the left 's hyperactivists . |
| 6 | A pool of blue scillas lies to the left of an entrance through yew hedges . |
| 7 | The loss of Barnes has brought Waddle a reprieve , and a switch to the left to accommodate Rocastle on the right . |
| 8 | They oppose the proposed changes for political reasons , believing that they form part of the task the prime minister , Michel Rocard , has set himself to reform public sector industry — reforms that many to the left of Mr Rocard believe to be inherently unsocialist . |
| 9 | He had picked up the Bren gun and was gazing to the left of the wood and pointing the gun in the same direction . |
| 10 | Away to the left across the fields , and probably in the area of No. 3 Commando , flares were going up , followed by very rapid rifle and machine gun fire . |
| 11 | We stopped at a gap in the hedge as the road swung round to the left . |
| 12 | So when the press was biased towards the political right , television coverage would redress the balance by leaning to the left . |
| 13 | The party continued to swing to the left , with the prestige of Tony Benn , albeit still a Cabinet member , rising ever higher , and new left-wing figures like Neil Kinnock and Dennis Skinner elected to the constituency section of the NEC . |
| 14 | But radicals in both parties who favoured radical changes , either to the left or to the right , have frequently condemned the civil service as the embodiment of an above-party consensus favouring continuity of policy . |
| 15 | Those defeats unleashed bitter internal conflicts and , except for 1951 , a shift to the left on policy . |
| 16 | At the top , just off to the left , is a hut , placed there , I assume , to help struggling people like me . |
| 17 | In the opposite direction , above us and to the left , was a high serac-edged glacial wall with , far below it , a run-out — a broad , lethargic river the colour of putty . |
| 18 | While the steering wheel is offset to the left , the pedals are positioned to the right . |
| 19 | We edge up a small re-entrant to the top of a ridge , while the second aircraft creeps along a woodline 200 metres to the left . |
| 20 | England fell to the left of me , Wales to the right . |
| 21 | A little to the left in the no man 's land in front of the buildings was a grass mound . |
| 22 | A ruck was set up to the left of the Cambridge posts and , when Smith flicked the ball out to the right , Hein charged through on the overlap to score behind the posts . |
| 23 | Perched to the left of them is a bulky wooden figure which came from her village of Ibusa . |
| 24 | The attraction of the SMG to the left was not , he believes , its commitment to monitoring racial violence and assisting its victims , but its second stated purpose of monitoring and campaigning on cases of alleged ‘ police harassment . ’ |
| 25 | The bay to the left of the projecting porch contains the full length mullioned and transomed hall window , which is thirty-six feet high and twenty-four feet wide , with twenty-four lights . |
| 26 | It is easy to picture how it looked , for the steps and ball-topped garden gate piers to the left of it would have led up to the front door , and there would have been an exact replica of this wing to the far left . |
| 27 | Both men stood aside to let a big dark-green Jaguar edge carefully round them on to the forecourt of the house immediately to the left of where the BMW was parked . |
| 28 | He was somewhere a little to the left , in a cluster of small , scrubby trees . |
| 29 | Squeezing through a gap in the hedge at the bottom of Vic 's garden , Mungo found himself in front of the shed door which , together with the rest of the building , leaned to the left in its frame . |
| 30 | Crisp , out on his feet staggered away to the left . |