Example sentences of "[adv] left a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theda had shoved it on so hastily that she must have carelessly left a little hair visible . |
| 2 | On Friday it only niggled , as if the chief had departed from a conquered place , and merely left a small garrison behind , or as if he had evacuated the Corsica , and a few straggling pains only remained . |
| 3 | He was said to have been depressed after sitting his first exam … and apparently left a suicide note in his room . |
| 4 | If you can spot the minute pinprick and area of discolouration around it — a magnifying glass is useful — the fly has already left a visiting card . |
| 5 | Ten years ago Eddie Murphy was aged 19 and had just left a job in a shoe store to start on Saturday Night Live , playing a variety of characters including Buck Wheat , Mr. Rogers and Velvet Jones . |
| 6 | Had a call a lady 's just left a message on our reception , to say , Robbo , be careful , it may be a nest of wasps . |
| 7 | But of course they could n't have just left a possible murder weapon on the altar with their fingerprints all over it . |
| 8 | She did n't even tell me herself — just left a note-anything could 've happened to her . ’ |
| 9 | It 's just left a massive void in our lives which we ca n't fill . |
| 10 | It is recorded , for example , that in spite of his duties as kadi and muderris , he yet managed to copy every day two leaves from the books of the ancients and Mecdi adds in regard to this point that Molla Husrev thus left a number of books in his own hand at his death . |
| 11 | In Brixton or Toxteth , the black ghettoes of the inner cities , alienation from the police , the government , and the social structure generally left a potentially combustible debris of explosive material . |
| 12 | The bloody ones always left a livid mark on his sallow skin , and Slender Billy particularly wanted to look his best at the Duchess of Richmond 's ball . |
| 13 | The archive still left a good deal to be desired . |
| 14 | The computer interface was secretly operational , sorting through the Mormons ' old listings of everybody who had ever left a record of his or her life on earth . |
| 15 | Respondents were also left a self-completion questionnaire and asked to fill it in and either give it to the interviewer when he or she called back or return it by post ; the response rate to this was 93 per cent . |
| 16 | The experiences of the First World War , often registered in a feeling of horrific waste , also left a deep impression on the mental landscape of the interwar years and helped to form the low-key response towards crime and hooliganism . |
| 17 | My guest 's shellfish also left a fiery bite but was unfortunately drowned in a sauce combining sweetness of coconut milk with a sort of bathcube flavour . |
| 18 | The social psychological survey also left a legacy in the attitudinal questions which are very often contained in questionnaires . |
| 19 | Five months earlier , on a bridge only a few miles away , Julie Dart 's killer had also left a stencilled message and used the phrase ‘ 2 mins allowed ’ and also a reference to a detector at the drop-off point . |
| 20 | The interest on this , is that he also left a second disk . |
| 21 | The great toe often left a deep impression similar to the final toeing-off by humans before swinging their foot . |
| 22 | Admittedly , Elaine 's cooking often left a lot to be desired , but she was at least conscientious . |
| 23 | Another anonymous donor regularly left a sugar bag full of food on the Burrows ' front verandah . |
| 24 | She had even left a photograph of Joseph Hegarty in the boy 's room lest he should think that his father was being banished from his memory on top of everything else . |
| 25 | The assassins , in their temerity , even left a white rose to mock us ! |
| 26 | Well I got home , I got everything all sorted out , Gary even left a message on the answerphone saying that he 'd be home round about half past two and that |
| 27 | Simply left a note to say she 'd gone off with Thomas . |
| 28 | Monod , by his collaboration with Coque , at least left a name in the automotive industry , but who today ever gives a thought to Le Chassis , without whose basic contribution to the theory of tetracyclic separation that industry would never have got off the ground ? |
| 29 | ‘ I have never left a vehicle more quickly in my life . |
| 30 | Last night 's overall telly certainly left a lot to be desired . |