Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] left " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intention had been to give the premiere of Sea Change at Sadler 's Wells to open the Theatre Ballet 's new season there , but it was thought that by then John would already have left for New York to take part in the Sadler 's Wells Ballet 's first American tour , so the decision was made to present the ballet first on 18 July 1949 at the Gaiety Theatre , Dublin , where the company concluded its summer tour . |
| 2 | Channel 4 says the show recognises its audience may already have left sexual theory behind and moved on to the practical side of the subject . |
| 3 | Would he just have left me … |
| 4 | But , instead of being able to sit back and enjoy this baby , she has also to look after the other children who may only just have left the baby stage themselves . |
| 5 | The old man said , ‘ You 'll soon have left us . |
| 6 | ‘ The reason I 'm calling , actually , is that my wallet seems to have disappeared and I wondered whether I could possibly have left it there . ’ |
| 7 | I could always have left him . |
| 8 | Care must always be taken , of course , because his opponent may purposely have left the area open to provoke just such an attack . |
| 9 | The majority of women , however , will probably have left parents and home a long time before , and spent many of their subsequent years caring for children and a partner , running the home and having a job too . |
| 10 | David Steel , Curator of European Art at the museum expressed the opinion that Mr Humber would probably have left them to the museum had he made a will , while he himself had tried to persuade the owner to donate them to the Rembrandthuis , Amsterdam . |
| 11 | By this stage , he who sold the client his warrants would probably have left the firm . |
| 12 | With luck , Mr Gorbachev may also have left it too late to make a fourth big mistake : returning his country to dictatorship . |
| 13 | Enough of them might also have left the county to reduce the population to a point which , by the 1520s , created a need for Breton workmen . |
| 14 | Previous development may also have left old foundations , concrete slabs and basements which must be identified and quantified for additional cost . |
| 15 | Mark 's friends would n't really have left her here , would they ? |
| 16 | He would by now have left the Bishop , would be crossing the Close to find his car , would know what lay ahead for them both . |
| 17 | He inflicted the first wound to Taylor 's hopes by conceding a penalty equaliser against the Dutch at Wembley and was also criticised for goals by Poland and Norway which threw away the points that would by now have left qualification a formality . |
| 18 | By the look of him he might well have left a genuine World War Two leather bomber jacket in the bedroom . |
| 19 | This was an undercover operation which had to be conducted with great speed as it quickly emerged that there was every chance that the Princess might well have left the royal circle by the proposed September publication date of the book . |
| 20 | Perhaps I should simply have left it alone for a while . |
| 21 | No one knew why , though the Dutch gunner Colonel opined that the reason for the Prince 's hasty departure could not have been of great importance , or else the Duke would surely have left with the Prince . |
| 22 | Though Ismail Belig 's evidence is not perhaps the most reliable , the facts which he gives about the holders of the kadilik of Bursa in the period , facts which are at least consistent , if not necessarily accurate , indicate that Molla Yegan may indeed have left office a few years earlier than 844 : according to Ismail Belig , Yusuf Bali succeeded Molla Yegan in the kadilik in 842/1438–9 , himself being succeeded at the Sultan medrese by Molla Yegan 's son , Sah Mehmed ( or Mehmed Sah ) , who later also succeeded him as kadi in 846/1442–3 . |
| 23 | Had Masham police station been shut , however , the man of the country would undoubtedly have left the matter unreported and driven home more disaffected with his fellow man . |
| 24 | And that those who may otherwise have left the province in search of employment on the mainland are being forced to think again . |
| 25 | In London , the Compact has been so successful that children who would previously have left as soon as they reached the school-leaving age of sixteen , are deciding to stay on at school to take further exams . |
| 26 | Rot on the vine ’ ) , its heedlessness ( ‘ with careless hand ’ ) , and its enervation ( its land is ‘ tired ’ , its conquest of that terrain ‘ unmanned ’ ) — that he would like if he could to unravel the threads of history , and become again a citizen of that Old World which his ancestors should never have left . |
| 27 | My mother would never have left me without telling me when she would be back . |
| 28 | If we had thought that , we would never have left . |
| 29 | And if I had any sense I would never have left there in the first place . ’ |
| 30 | Mountbatten 's especial qualification in Attlee 's eyes for the job of viceroy was his success in getting the Burmese nationalists to come in on the British side in the closing stages of the war ; it was Attlee 's firm belief in later life , as indeed it was Mountbatten 's , that if Mountbatten had been left in charge in Rangoon , Burma would never have left the Commonwealth . |