Example sentences of "had left a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Their experiences at Darlington had left a bad taste in the mouth . |
| 4 | — because his watch had left a clear , sharp-edged mark on his tanned arm . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Someone had left a copy of the Sun , and Sergei grabbed it saying , ‘ Ah , your free press ! ’ |
| 8 | They had left a gap in the life of the city . |
| 9 | Someone had left a copy of the evening paper beside him , and he picked it up and glanced at the headline . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Many pupils who had left a schoolbook behind would rather risk punishment than walk through the dark room with the animals smiling as they watched you hunt for your things . |
| 12 | Mrs. Jennens , daughter of Judge Blencowe , dreamt that an express came with an account of the death of her sister , Lady Probyn ; that the latter had appointed her sole Executrix and had left a cabinet to Mrs. Betty Blencowe in which were secret drawers containing several valuables . |
| 13 | Apart from the fact that the McCarthy purges of alleged Communists had left a bad scar on the film industry , two other developments were eventually to bear much of the blame for the demise of the glitterama of old Hollywood . |
| 14 | A recent survey of domestic burglaries in Northern Ireland , showed that almost half of he victims had left a window open and a similar number had left a door open . |
| 15 | A recent survey of domestic burglaries in Northern Ireland , showed that almost half of he victims had left a window open and a similar number had left a door open . |
| 16 | No , nobody had left a car at the bottom of this hill , and , yes , everybody was looking to cadge a lift . |
| 17 | We had in addition to this party , — a doctor coming to visit his mother , who lived in Coll ; a young Englishman with a fishing-rod , who had left a medical practice for a few days , to whip the burns of Coll and breathe the fine air ; a minister 's wife ; a retired minister and his wife , both in delicate health ; the fiscal of Tobermory , who had a farm in Tiree ; the Chief Constable and Sheriff Clerk from Mull , who came to investigate a case of suspected cattle poisoning ; and a young Glasgow teacher , who came to be guest of the Fiscal aforementioned . |
| 18 | It had been enjoyable at the time , but after it was over it had left a disagreeable taste in the mouth . |
| 19 | Asked to explain why he had burst into the bedroom of his landlady 's attractive teenage daughter , Tom away the towel with which she was drying herself and started a close fingertip search of her backside , Berkas explained that he had left a valuable foreign stamp soaking in the bath and returned to find that it had disappeared . |
| 20 | Sam and Duncan McCrea raced down to the street where Lou Collins had left a CIA car should the listeners in the apartment need transport . |
| 21 | After the incident on avenue Foch , Azadi had left a man to watch in a surveillance car . |
| 22 | She had married an insurance agent — Richard 's father — and later a solicitor in a country town who had left a wife and two children for her . |
| 23 | She claimed the King had left a suicide note for his father , saying he wanted to die because he had cancer and could not face an agonising death . |
| 24 | But instead , Carla had left a note saying : ‘ I have gone abroad . |
| 25 | Theresa Nolan , after having a medical termination on psychiatric grounds , had left a suicide note for her grandparents which they had confirmed was in her handwriting and which made her intention to kill herself plain beyond any doubt . |
| 26 | I found a niche where a small landslide had left a level lawn with a backing of turf ; and where the breeze still moved enough to allay the midges , and sat down to my picnic . |
| 27 | His parents had left a village in the mountains near the Albanian border just after the Civil War . |
| 28 | To demonstrate a sensitive period of the type he was proposing , it would be necessary to show that adults who had left a kibbutz at the age of six were not sexually attracted by members of the opposite sex whom they had been reared with while still in the kibbutz . |
| 29 | She had been Patrick 's housekeeper for fourteen years , through his brief and disastrous marriage , through his long and complicated liaison with a woman who had left a year ago , telling Ella that there was no point in waiting any longer for Patrick to marry her . |
| 30 | Beside the note , lying on the bare boards , Vanessa and her cohorts ( she had two brothers ; it was probably they who 'd come with her to empty the house ) had left a neat pile of broken glass , in case he was sufficiently moved by her entreaty to end his life there and then . |