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Example sentences for "been left"

  • News was also brought that Spitamenes was besieging the men who had been left in the citadel at Maracanda.

  • The siege of Ora proved an easy matter to Alexander, for he no sooner attacked the walls than at the first assault he got possession of the city, and captured the elephants which had been left there.

  • Then with the axe he made a deep notch, where the bark had been removed--in fact, such a notch as would have caused the tree to fall had it been left to itself.

  • At some places the trail was difficult to make out, and Leon would soon have lost it had he been left to himself.

  • But I have got a few without the husks in the boat," said the girl, rising and running to the place where the cockleshell had been left.

  • I have been told," said the hermit to Nigel, as they went down with Moses to the place where the canoe had been left, "the history of Krakatoa since we left.

  • The spot was surrounded by a strong and high bamboo fence, except at one point where a narrow but very conspicuous opening had been left.

  • He, however, first examined the candle which had been left him, and which still burned in the corner where he had concealed it:—to his joy he found that there was an inch remaining.

  • It was a deuced good scheme of theirs; and if you hadn't been left in the plague-ship, it might have gone precious hard with you.

  • Then Richard took from his strong-box the mysterious packet which had been left to him by Thomas Armstrong; and that sacred trust he secured about his person.

  • That Pope, had he been left to his own judgment, would have crossed the Rapidan is certain.

  • Edgar had, from the first, been left greatly to his own devices.

  • It was with difficulty that he made his way to the spot where the horses had been left.

  • But no army could they discover, whether of friend or foe; only some starveling old women and men, with a few sheep and oxen which had been left behind.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "been left" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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