Example sentences of "[vb past] left a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd left a note for me , saying she was sorry … |
| 2 | She 'd left a few more pieces of trash on the dining-room floor : reminders of that time . |
| 3 | she 'd left a good gold star by your name . |
| 4 | I 'd left a couple of rings on which were really hard to get off . |
| 5 | She 'd left a message for him about an hour before , within minutes of receiving a call from the foresters ' agents . |
| 6 | ‘ Or would I start screaming that I 'd left a soufflé in the oven , or forgotten to get the coat back from the cleaners , or I was too young to die … ’ |
| 7 | He forgot to take his ten pence out of the slot where he 'd had it ready , and he 'd left a pile of tens and fives sitting on top of the directories . |
| 8 | She 'd only been in Dane 's company for a matter of days , but he 'd left a mark on her , a mark it could prove impossible to erase . |
| 9 | Patrick wished they 'd left a window open . |
| 10 | ‘ You would forget the ten thousand , and I would n't tell the law that you 'd left a stiff behind the Windsor . ’ |
| 11 | It would n't have surprised her in the slightest if he 'd left a few minutes early , just for the pleasure of leaving her stranded . |
| 12 | I said at the time of Robert Maxwell 's death that he 'd left a trail of wreckage across the city . |
| 13 | And when I saw the landlady there she said that she did have a Mr there but he 'd left a few days ago , did n't know where he 'd got to . |
| 14 | I did n't even know he 'd left a |
| 15 | The reason we know it 's not it was nineteen sixteen er that had been killed was that he was home obviously at the beginning of the war he went off and then someone named left a house well left they died and the proceeds of the house were left to Mrs Miss 's grandmother . |
| 16 | ‘ By this time I had already been fooling around with sound on sound recording , and then in 1971 some aunt that I never even knew left a small house to me and my two brothers . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Their experiences at Darlington had left a bad taste in the mouth . |
| 20 | — because his watch had left a clear , sharp-edged mark on his tanned arm . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Someone had left a copy of the Sun , and Sergei grabbed it saying , ‘ Ah , your free press ! ’ |
| 24 | They had left a gap in the life of the city . |
| 25 | Someone had left a copy of the evening paper beside him , and he picked it up and glanced at the headline . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |