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Example sentences for "left the"

  • That same evening two large vans were standing outside Madame Ferailleur's house.

  • He had become extremely pale, and he looked anxiously around him, as if he feared that some one had overheard me--as if he had forgotten that we were alone in a carriage which was dashing onward at full speed!

  • What was the time when he left the house?

  • As he left the house, he fancied he saw two persons moving about among the trees.

  • He was scarcely sober when he left the shop, but now he was fairly drunk; his heavy shamble had become a stagger.

  • Jodon spoken to Mademoiselle Marguerite; and yet, when he left the Hotel de Chalusse, after assuring himself that Casimir would have some straw spread over the street, the doctor quietly walked home.

  • Four or five times he left the table, and then came back again.

  • I left the room, and locking the door, made a solemn vow in my own heart never to resume my labours; and then, with trembling steps, I sought my own apartment.

  • Sometimes, with my sails set, I was carried by the wind; and sometimes, after rowing into the middle of the lake, I left the boat to pursue its own course and gave way to my own miserable reflections.

  • With these words he left the chamber, and took his way to the room to which we have already had occasion to introduce our readers--that in which his pupils worked.

  • He then rose, and I left the room, much agitated and exhausted.

  • With these astounding words he left the room, leaving me almost fainting.

  • He stayed but a little while, excusing himself on the ground that he had a cold; and Mary did not reappear before he left the house.

  • Dorothea sank back in her chair when her uncle had left the room, and cast her eyes down meditatively on her crossed hands.

  • Fred, rather glumly, as he left the table, and taking up a novel which he had brought down with him, threw himself into an arm-chair.

  • In half an hour he left the house an engaged man, whose soul was not his own, but the woman's to whom he had bound himself.

  • I musingly, as I left the bridge; 'Tanner!

  • I left the baths as fresh and hearty as if I was off to a ball.

  • The latter you have already proved," I answered coldly; and, taking the captain of dragoons by the arm, I left the room.

  • I shown the slightest desire to embrace him, he would have thrown himself upon my neck; but I remained cold as a rock--and he left the room.

  • So quick was the Tribunal to compensate itself and the nation for a chance lost, that these five came down to him before he left the place, condemned to die within twenty-four hours.

  • He left the messengers at the gate, and saw them admitted by the porter.

  • As soon as Aksiutka had delivered her message she left the room in the same abrupt manner in which she had entered.

  • He wrapped himself in his cloak, lifted his cap, and, taking his bag, left the car.

  • Their conversation not interesting me, I left the car to stretch my legs.

  • That finished my stock of paper, and I left the record of the oddments overheard of the conversation for a later time.

  • I left the heather, scrambled up some yards of screes, and had a difficult time on some very smooth slabs, where only the friction of tweed and rough rock gave me a hold.

  • His suspicions, if he had any, would be lulled if I left the boat at Oban, but it was up to me to follow overland to the north and hit the place where the Tobermory made a long stay.

  • The only thing now was to collar him before he left the country, for there was ample evidence to hang him on.

  • We left the inn at five minutes to nine, with the sky cloudless and a stiff wind from the north-west, which we felt even in the deep-cut valley.

  • They had to stop to consider, and then to return and start once more, for although he was certain of the direction of the river he was not certain of striking the point where they had left the others.

  • Now that the afternoon sun had left the front of the house, Ridley paced up and down the terrace repeating stanzas of a long poem, in a subdued but suddenly sonorous voice.

  • They found themselves again in the broad path, like the drive in the English forest, where they had started when they left the others.

  • Yes; he left the train, but I followed him up and reclaimed the jewelry.

  • As he left the car he soiled his shoes with the mud so characteristic of New York streets.

  • I had it in my hand when I left the hotel, but I had something on my mind and I think I must have dropped it without noticing.

  • Could he have read Jasper's thoughts as he left the house he would have felt even less regret at disappointing him.

  • When I left the room, the boiler-maker's eyes were slowly turned towards her, as if his last hope of ever again seeing that vanished boiler lay in her direction.

  • I have seen him with six sheep, plainly casting up in his mind how many he began with when he left the market, and at what places he has left the rest.

  • But I left the house of death that day in a state of horror which I could not describe.

  • How I left the room I know not; I rode madly to my uncle's residence, and brought him back with me--all the rest is a blank.

  • At length, wearied with witnessing amusements in which I could not sympathise, I left the room, and did not see O'Connor until late in the next day.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "left the" 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:
    body lies; foreign devils; goods sold; great deale; left alone; left bank; left behind; left camp; left field; left flank; left free; left guard; left hand; left his; left none; left port; left side; left tackle; left undone; left unfinished; made manifest; mediaeval thought; said grannie; small collection; wooden walls; would seem