I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
are better left unsaid (= it is better not to mention them )
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Some things are better left unsaid .
be left/remain undisturbed
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The land is to be left undisturbed as a nature reserve.
keep left/right (= stay to the left or right of a path or road as you move )
left a legacy
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The invasion left a legacy of hatred and fear.
left a trail
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The bus left a trail of black smoke behind it.
left field
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People don’t know how to react when a question like that comes at them out of left field.
left foot
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My left foot ached a bit.
left jab
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a boxer with a good left jab
left luggage office
left on...own
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He didn’t want to be left on his own .
left stranded
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Air travellers were left stranded because of icy conditions.
left to rot
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The trees were cut and left to rot .
left to the discretion
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Promotions are left to the discretion of the supervisor.
left unattended
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Children should not be left unattended in the playground.
left unchecked
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This habit, if left unchecked , may cause serious problems later.
left undone
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The washing-up had been left undone .
left...destitute
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The floods left many people destitute .
left...injured
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The car accident left him seriously injured .
left...open to
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He has left himself open to accusations of dishonesty.
left...speechless
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His comments left me speechless with rage.
make a left/right turn
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Make a left turn at the station.
pick up where...left off
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We’ll meet again in the morning and we can pick up where we left off .
sb's left/right ear
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She is deaf in her right ear.
sb’s left/right arm
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She broke her left arm in a riding accident.
sb’s right/left hand
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She held the book in her right hand.
sharp left/right
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Take a sharp left after the church.
stage left
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He entered stage left.
swing to the Right/Left (= in politics )
the left/left-hand corner
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We followed the path to the left-hand corner of the field.
the left/right side
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He received a deep cut on the right side of his face.
the...turning on the left
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Take the first turning on the left .
to the left/right of sth
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To the left of the sofa is a table.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
arm
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His left arm was jammed tight against the side of the seat.
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Jack took pellets in the right lung, liver, and back, and his left arm was again badly fractured.
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I felt him rip the tape off my hands, but he kept my left arm in a hammer lock.
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As much as his left arm , Estes has used his leveled head to get him to the All- Star Game.
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He was taken to hospital with minor burns to his hair, left arm , face and ears.
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A third ball passed through the left arm half way from shoulder to elbow.
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She glanced down again at her left arm .
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He holds his left arm akimbo, hand on hip.
ear
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In his left ear he wore a small ring.
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He wore a blue baseball cap backward and a gold hoop in his left ear .
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Then he leaned forward and whispered something into his left ear .
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A cherry bomb had blown up near her left ear when she was eight years old.
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She dug the nail of her little finger deeply in behind the left ear .
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Tilt the head until your left ear is over the left shoulder, then release.
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The knot in his tie was somewhere up behind his left ear .
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The bloody gash behind his left ear had been cut with a machete.
eye
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He broke Sonny's nose and closed his left eye .
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But the hint of volcanic force is no longer there, maybe because his left eye now somehow appears normal.
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Doctors at Pinderfield hospital, Huddersfield, will wait two days before operating to remove the pellet lodged behind his left eye .
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The explosion knocks one of the soldiers down and damages his left eye .
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Where Morpurgo's left eye should have been was only a sickening fold of flesh.
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Tell them to keep both eyes open and to hold the tube up to their left eyes.
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Fingermarks stood in raised weals across one cheek and her left eye was half closed.
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Her features darkened, and a tear appeared in her left eye .
field
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Hey, here's one from left field .
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While he used more complex sentences consistently, some of them seemed to come out of left field .
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Some of the griping comes out of left field .
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Raul Mondesi stroked it crisply into left field for a single, ending the no-hitter.
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Fans in Atlanta still talk about the shot Linares hit off the facade in left field in a 1993 exhibition game.
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Leadoff hitter Brett Hardy, a lefty, hit a line drive to left field .
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When something like this comes out of left field at you....
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Vaughn is going to get a shot at left field .
foot
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His left foot , dangling beneath the slight overlap, stabbed frantically.
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I had to fold my leg sideways so I could use my right heel to rest my left foot against.
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Keep your left foot flat on the floor throughout the sequence.
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Cross left foot over right knee.
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Price, coming off a year of virtual inactivity because of left foot surgery, will be watched closely.
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Stanley Gascgoine, a green marvel with a two-pronged attack, left foot , right foot or head.
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A bald-headed goon in a red blazer shot out of his seat and whacked me on the heel of my left foot .
hand
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A stride piano pattern in the left hand then underpinned exploratory, unresolved figures, which eventually evolved into Take the A-Train.
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He held the edges of the slice in his left hand , moved the knife in systematic strokes, over and over.
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His left hand flashes upward, and he knocks my gun aside with his forearm.
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The magazines, the Militant and the Worker, were in his left hand , fanned like playing cards.
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She looked down at her bandaged left hand then smiled cynically at her reflection in the darkened glass.
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Jab-jab, left hook, my opening left hands moving him to the right, to meet my right cross.
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On the index finger of his left hand he wore a gold signet ring.
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Grasping it in his left hand again, he resumed a grip on his gun.
hemisphere
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Disconnection studies in split-brain patients supported this conclusion, showing that the left hemisphere is sufficient for language.
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In split-brain patients it has been shown that the left hemisphere retains language function, the right does not.
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Not only is the left hemisphere normally necessary for language, it is also sufficient.
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This suggests that verbal ability is dominant in the left hemisphere and spatial ability is dominant in the right hemisphere.
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The left hemisphere is responsible for the construction of spoken language, but the right contributes to its intended meaning.
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The left hemisphere is not well equipped to deal with empty spaces.
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Or since these desirable states can be put into words, do they belong only to the left hemisphere ?.
knee
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Reverse as your right elbow touches your left knee , turning to see the left side.
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Center Chris Dalman sprained his left knee .
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He was small and elegant: tapering legs with a white band on his left knee .
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Jurkovic suffered a torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee and missed the rest of the game.
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They stripped off his clothes, and that was when he saw that his left knee was shattered.
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Bend your left knee , extend your right leg and touch your right elbow on to your left knee.
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Tony smiled and without moving his left knee dodged the blows, his torso jinking, neck muscles popping.
leg
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Change to the left leg and repeat.
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His left leg was going into muscle spasms of some sort and he clutched at his knee with frustration.
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The plaintiff suffered injuries to his left leg as a result of the defendant's negligence.
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His left leg slipped, rupturing a disc in his back.
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His left leg was cut off above the knee and he walked with a crutch under his left shoulder.
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Now try to lift or move your left leg .
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Raise and lower your left leg , not too high in a fast, continuous movement.
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Damien's left leg was still in the iron.
shoulder
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She felt a tap on her left shoulder .
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Allen slipped and fell and was stabbed three times in his left shoulder and once on top of his head.
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Just below his left shoulder was a raised welt, about four inches long.
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The leather ring on my left shoulder had the holster sewn on near the bottom.
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The soul followed when fly-half Michael Lynagh dislocated his left shoulder during the recent destruction of Ireland in Dublin.
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He aggravated a nagging left shoulder injury and left the ice during the third period.
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His left leg was cut off above the knee and he walked with a crutch under his left shoulder .
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Hearst sustained a stinger on his left shoulder .
side
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Reverse as your right elbow touches your left knee, turning to see the left side .
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Waite slammed his drive long and down the left side of the fairway.
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He had a mark on the left side of his face.
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Walker started the last two seasons as right tackle for the Gators, but worked his first season on the left side .
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But our first experiment found that he neglects the left side of perceptual figures at a subsequent stage of attending to them.
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Along the left side of the car was a rectangular piece of gray tarp.
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The left side of his heart had not grown properly in the womb.
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Clash keeper David Kramer was barely able to parry a 23-yard shot from the left side by Ted Chronopoulos.
turn
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The films were split into the 12 showing right turns and the 12 showing left turns.
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A U-turn in Moscow is even more illegal than a left turn .
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Ignore right turn just before church and ignore left turn 1/2 mile later.
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There was a sharp left turn at the bottom into Ruskin Road.
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The division of the stimuli into right and left turns demonstrated separate positive and negative relationships between risk and recognition sensitivity.
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I tried going back but I kept getting to corners and not knowing whether to take the left turn or the right.
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They noticed the car run wide as the defendant made a left turn and the officers decided to stop the vehicle.
wing
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The contest between Balshaw and Ben Cohen on Northampton's left wing had been much anticipated.
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At the time Longstreet broke through his lines to attack his left wing , he was with the right-wing troops.
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The 1933 elections demonstrated the growing right wing reaction against left wing republican parties.
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He passed to Dollar, breaking down the left wing .
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Taylor's plan backfired from the moment Flo switched to the left wing and took Pallister with him.
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He turned to the left wing and announced Gabriel Marcel.
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Steve O'Shaughnessy weakly headed away a left wing cross to Lee Duxbury who powered a shot goalwards.
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It flipped and spun a number of times, fuel spilling out of the damaged left wing - the aircraft was doomed.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Elvis/sb/sth has left the building
be left
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By 5 o'clock there was hardly anyone left in the office.
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I still have three chapters left to read.
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Is there any coffee left ?
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After expenses and a donation to a charity, he was left with about $ 424, 000.
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Coats, bags and shoes were to be left in the corridors and not brought in to the hall.
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He was left in feeble health, unemployed and with a wife, three-year-old daughter and a newly-born one.
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In each case contestants are voted out one at a time by their colleagues and by viewers until just two are left .
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One on each side for the short distance that was left .
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Scarcely a single social problem was left untouched.
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That was left to a Commission on Admissions, which spent the summer and fall wrangling bitterly over the details.
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The inculcation of political orthodoxy and instruction of a more coercive nature was left strictly in the hands of the Party.
be left holding the baby
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The difference is that you were left holding the baby.
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Then he does something stupid with a television researcher and is left holding the baby.
be/feel left out
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The whole time I went to the youth group I felt completely left out.
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A man can feel left out during pregnancy.
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But some will be left out.
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Can it really be left out?
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Gwendolen McEwen had always felt left out when her schoolfriends went to see their grandparents, because she had none.
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Had we picked Emburey, I think Willis would have been the one to be left out.
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It was a testimonial to his personality that he could take his roots with him without making others feel left out.
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They tried to see she didn't feel left out but Jean is very shy and sensitive.
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Those waiting for Washington to successfully deal with these issues will be left out in the cold.
bear right/left
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Bear left where the road divides.
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The road bears to the right.
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After descending, bear left on to the grassy bridleway which joins the road.
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From St Martin's church bear left past Cwmyoy Farm.
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Go through gate then bear right across field heading for stile that can be seen on skyline.
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His eyes bore right through me.
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I came to the place in the road where you bear left to go down to the valley of Chimayo.
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On reaching the saddle bear right along the ridge to the summit.
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Stay on the main track, bearing left at the fork two miles in.
fork (off) left/right
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After 50yds fork right on to a track which climbs up Triscombe Combe.
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At the first fork they must go left and at the next fork right and so on until they were challenged.
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Then with a wave she forked left and was gone.
hang a right/left
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Go straight on Vista for two blocks then hang a left.
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First, there is that bizarre enormous mythic metal fish that hangs right inside the doorway.
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I was just in time to see the Sierra hang a left once over the railway.
have two left feet
left-footed/right-footed
out of/from left field
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Some of the griping comes out of left field.
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When something like this comes out of left field at you....
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While he used more complex sentences consistently, some of them seemed to come out of left field.
right, left, and centre
sharp left/right
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For this you turn sharp right off the road from Saint-Jean to Saint-Palais, about half-way between those two towns.
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Pass over a broken wall and turn sharp right.
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She walked almost to the edge of the cliff, where the road made a sharp left.
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There was a sharp left turn at the bottom into Ruskin Road.
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Turn sharp left 80yds before a conifer windbreak.
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Turn sharp right downhill and uphill to go through another gate.
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Turn left along this road for three quarters of a mile until the road turns sharp right to become Marsh Road.
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We made a rocky, wet entry, and then took a sharp right turn along a wall.
the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a left turn
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By 5 o'clock there was no one left in the office.
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How much milk is left in the fridge?
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How much time do we have left to finish this?
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If Tracey leaves, I'll be the only girl left in the class.
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Is there any milk left ?
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Joe only had $8 left .
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Jones scored with only two minutes left in the fourth quarter.
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my left foot
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the left side of the page
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At meals and prayers she sat slightly behind his left shoulder fanning him solicitously and always looking at him.
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Doubleclick on it with the left button.
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In the postcard Jack wears his cocoa-brown suit and white hat and is held by his left arm, slightly aloft.
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She pinched herself on her left biceps and yelped with pain.
II. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
go
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The line running off left went to Pearson's Pottery.
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Go left , he said, and I did.
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I stop, balance, and circle him, going left .
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You, go left and die.
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It cleverly went left if I went right, went up when I went down.
turn
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Turn left on this, and at the next junction turn right.
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He watched me until I pulled out of the parking lot, turning left .
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I tell him to turn left .
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He got up and left the terrace, walked right out of the backyard, turned left.
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When she turned left around the corner of the house, a dilapidated building came into view.
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Turn left and you should be able to see the National Forest gate.
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Turn left into Bleak Terrace and go back on to the Fell through the wicket gate to the village boundary wall.
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The first turned right, the second turned left .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Elvis/sb/sth has left the building
a hard left/right
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I executed a hard right turn, but could not see any other aircraft in my vicinity.
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More often, though, they miss, hang a hard left, and return to the dugout.
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Sharp took an eight count after taking a hard left hook.
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Still not enough to justify this desire to reach across the table and deliver a hard right to the gubernatorial chin.
be left
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By 5 o'clock there was hardly anyone left in the office.
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I still have three chapters left to read.
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Is there any coffee left ?
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After expenses and a donation to a charity, he was left with about $ 424, 000.
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Coats, bags and shoes were to be left in the corridors and not brought in to the hall.
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He was left in feeble health, unemployed and with a wife, three-year-old daughter and a newly-born one.
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In each case contestants are voted out one at a time by their colleagues and by viewers until just two are left .
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One on each side for the short distance that was left .
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Scarcely a single social problem was left untouched.
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That was left to a Commission on Admissions, which spent the summer and fall wrangling bitterly over the details.
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The inculcation of political orthodoxy and instruction of a more coercive nature was left strictly in the hands of the Party.
be left holding the baby
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The difference is that you were left holding the baby.
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Then he does something stupid with a television researcher and is left holding the baby.
be left unsaid
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But it might not, particularly if you feel that too much was left unsaid .
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Something must always be left unsaid .
be/feel left out
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The whole time I went to the youth group I felt completely left out.
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A man can feel left out during pregnancy.
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But some will be left out.
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Can it really be left out?
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Gwendolen McEwen had always felt left out when her schoolfriends went to see their grandparents, because she had none.
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Had we picked Emburey, I think Willis would have been the one to be left out.
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It was a testimonial to his personality that he could take his roots with him without making others feel left out.
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They tried to see she didn't feel left out but Jean is very shy and sensitive.
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Those waiting for Washington to successfully deal with these issues will be left out in the cold.
bear right/left
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Bear left where the road divides.
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The road bears to the right.
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After descending, bear left on to the grassy bridleway which joins the road.
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From St Martin's church bear left past Cwmyoy Farm.
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Go through gate then bear right across field heading for stile that can be seen on skyline.
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His eyes bore right through me.
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I came to the place in the road where you bear left to go down to the valley of Chimayo.
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On reaching the saddle bear right along the ridge to the summit.
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Stay on the main track, bearing left at the fork two miles in.
extreme west/end/left etc
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But the extreme ends of the continent seem afflicted with retro-chic shallowness when it comes to cocktails.
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Developing your film To get your film developed you need to go to the extreme left of the upper level.
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Evictions are the extreme end of the bailiff's duties.
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Moving down to the extreme left he was discovered by the enemy, and a full battery opened upon him.
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Passage is possible through the branches on the extreme left.
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Roots and leafless bushes stuck up wildly at the extreme end of the strip.
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So why was she tempted to invent such an extreme ending?
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The extreme left doors date from 1948, the work of Arrigo Menerbi, showing the tribulations of early Christians.
fork (off) left/right
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After 50yds fork right on to a track which climbs up Triscombe Combe.
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At the first fork they must go left and at the next fork right and so on until they were challenged.
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Then with a wave she forked left and was gone.
hang a right/left
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Go straight on Vista for two blocks then hang a left.
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First, there is that bizarre enormous mythic metal fish that hangs right inside the doorway.
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I was just in time to see the Sierra hang a left once over the railway.
have two left feet
left-footed/right-footed
out of/from left field
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Some of the griping comes out of left field.
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When something like this comes out of left field at you....
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While he used more complex sentences consistently, some of them seemed to come out of left field.
right, left, and centre
right/left justified
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Numeric quantities can be printed left justified by preceding them with a semi-colon.
sharp left/right
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For this you turn sharp right off the road from Saint-Jean to Saint-Palais, about half-way between those two towns.
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Pass over a broken wall and turn sharp right.
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She walked almost to the edge of the cliff, where the road made a sharp left.
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There was a sharp left turn at the bottom into Ruskin Road.
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Turn sharp left 80yds before a conifer windbreak.
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Turn sharp right downhill and uphill to go through another gate.
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Turn left along this road for three quarters of a mile until the road turns sharp right to become Marsh Road.
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We made a rocky, wet entry, and then took a sharp right turn along a wall.
the far left/right
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For now, at least, the cause of tax simplification seems to have been captured by the far right.
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He unplugged the cables, shoved all the levers over to the far left, and rewound the tape.
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However, the fact that the far right won more votes than the far-left should make everyone pause and reflect.
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That Begin had come from the far right, but that in order to govern he has to occupy the center.
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The activities of the far right have been a cause for concern over here for a while now.
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The good tee shot was played to the far right of the fairway to set up a second shot to the left.
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The libertarian view A third view of the revolution has been developed by writers on the far Left of the political spectrum.
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The top of the hierarchy is at the far left.
the hard left/right
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But what happens when you want so much to be right, you end up helping the hard right?
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Labour moderates win over four of the hard left by agreeing that the cuts shall involve as few compulsory redundancies as possible.
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Mr Steve King, leader of the hard left, denounces his fellow-councillors as dunderheads, nincompoops and dolts.
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The showing for the hard left was disappointing.
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They were stars of the hard left, but we have heard little about them during the election struggle.
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Too little, say the Tories, too much says the hard left.
the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing
top left/right/centre
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A slightly larger percentage of pairs of brooches were more abraded on the top right than the top left corner.
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Here we want the Series in a column so check Columns in the box at the top left.
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The completed board is shown top left.
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The dark area in the top right is deep, clear water.
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The file was a standard office file with a Prior, Keen, Baldwin label stuck in the top right corner.
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The majority of single brooches examined were found to be more abraded on the top left corner than the top right.
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The plane again runs roughly from top left to bottom right.
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Using a tapestry needle threaded with the embroidery colour, begin at the top right of the motif.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Turn left at the stop light.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At mile marker 142, turn left on to Coleman Road.
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I turned left and walked up the High Street.
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Meanwhile, Eric had turned left and pulled away, driving along the High Street towards the top end of the town.
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Turn left and first on your left.
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Turn left on this and follow for 1/2 mile to junction with main drive of Witley Court.
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Veer left and left again, passing the road that leads into Fish Canyon.
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We turned left and followed the gravel stream bed.
III. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
far
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Pearce concludes: the truth is that the far left is no longer that important.
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The far left is also being blamed for taking advantage of grievances.
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Off to the far left of her, jutting from the water, revealed by the ebb of the tide.
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Little Women and Anne of Green Gables represented the far left of my reading.
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The far left says they penalise children from minority groups.
top
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The set of rectangles at the top left are alarm and other activity lights.
■ VERB
move
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One is moving towards the left , the other towards the right.
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In my stupidity-or whatever you want to call it-I tried to move around to his left .
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The direction in which opinion was moving was toward the left of the political spectrum.
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As you type, the characters will move toward the left .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Elvis/sb/sth has left the building
a hard left/right
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I executed a hard right turn, but could not see any other aircraft in my vicinity.
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More often, though, they miss, hang a hard left, and return to the dugout.
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Sharp took an eight count after taking a hard left hook.
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Still not enough to justify this desire to reach across the table and deliver a hard right to the gubernatorial chin.
be left
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By 5 o'clock there was hardly anyone left in the office.
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I still have three chapters left to read.
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Is there any coffee left ?
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After expenses and a donation to a charity, he was left with about $ 424, 000.
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Coats, bags and shoes were to be left in the corridors and not brought in to the hall.
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He was left in feeble health, unemployed and with a wife, three-year-old daughter and a newly-born one.
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In each case contestants are voted out one at a time by their colleagues and by viewers until just two are left .
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One on each side for the short distance that was left .
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Scarcely a single social problem was left untouched.
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That was left to a Commission on Admissions, which spent the summer and fall wrangling bitterly over the details.
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The inculcation of political orthodoxy and instruction of a more coercive nature was left strictly in the hands of the Party.
be left holding the baby
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The difference is that you were left holding the baby.
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Then he does something stupid with a television researcher and is left holding the baby.
be left unsaid
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But it might not, particularly if you feel that too much was left unsaid .
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Something must always be left unsaid .
be/feel left out
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The whole time I went to the youth group I felt completely left out.
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A man can feel left out during pregnancy.
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But some will be left out.
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Can it really be left out?
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Gwendolen McEwen had always felt left out when her schoolfriends went to see their grandparents, because she had none.
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Had we picked Emburey, I think Willis would have been the one to be left out.
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It was a testimonial to his personality that he could take his roots with him without making others feel left out.
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They tried to see she didn't feel left out but Jean is very shy and sensitive.
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Those waiting for Washington to successfully deal with these issues will be left out in the cold.
bear right/left
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Bear left where the road divides.
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The road bears to the right.
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After descending, bear left on to the grassy bridleway which joins the road.
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From St Martin's church bear left past Cwmyoy Farm.
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Go through gate then bear right across field heading for stile that can be seen on skyline.
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His eyes bore right through me.
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I came to the place in the road where you bear left to go down to the valley of Chimayo.
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On reaching the saddle bear right along the ridge to the summit.
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Stay on the main track, bearing left at the fork two miles in.
extreme west/end/left etc
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But the extreme ends of the continent seem afflicted with retro-chic shallowness when it comes to cocktails.
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Developing your film To get your film developed you need to go to the extreme left of the upper level.
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Evictions are the extreme end of the bailiff's duties.
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Moving down to the extreme left he was discovered by the enemy, and a full battery opened upon him.
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Passage is possible through the branches on the extreme left.
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Roots and leafless bushes stuck up wildly at the extreme end of the strip.
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So why was she tempted to invent such an extreme ending?
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The extreme left doors date from 1948, the work of Arrigo Menerbi, showing the tribulations of early Christians.
fork (off) left/right
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After 50yds fork right on to a track which climbs up Triscombe Combe.
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At the first fork they must go left and at the next fork right and so on until they were challenged.
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Then with a wave she forked left and was gone.
hang a right/left
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Go straight on Vista for two blocks then hang a left.
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First, there is that bizarre enormous mythic metal fish that hangs right inside the doorway.
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I was just in time to see the Sierra hang a left once over the railway.
have two left feet
out of/from left field
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Some of the griping comes out of left field.
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When something like this comes out of left field at you....
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While he used more complex sentences consistently, some of them seemed to come out of left field.
right, left, and centre
right/left justified
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Numeric quantities can be printed left justified by preceding them with a semi-colon.
sharp left/right
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For this you turn sharp right off the road from Saint-Jean to Saint-Palais, about half-way between those two towns.
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Pass over a broken wall and turn sharp right.
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She walked almost to the edge of the cliff, where the road made a sharp left.
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There was a sharp left turn at the bottom into Ruskin Road.
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Turn sharp left 80yds before a conifer windbreak.
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Turn sharp right downhill and uphill to go through another gate.
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Turn left along this road for three quarters of a mile until the road turns sharp right to become Marsh Road.
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We made a rocky, wet entry, and then took a sharp right turn along a wall.
the far left/right
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For now, at least, the cause of tax simplification seems to have been captured by the far right.
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He unplugged the cables, shoved all the levers over to the far left, and rewound the tape.
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However, the fact that the far right won more votes than the far-left should make everyone pause and reflect.
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That Begin had come from the far right, but that in order to govern he has to occupy the center.
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The activities of the far right have been a cause for concern over here for a while now.
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The good tee shot was played to the far right of the fairway to set up a second shot to the left.
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The libertarian view A third view of the revolution has been developed by writers on the far Left of the political spectrum.
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The top of the hierarchy is at the far left.
the hard left/right
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But what happens when you want so much to be right, you end up helping the hard right?
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Labour moderates win over four of the hard left by agreeing that the cuts shall involve as few compulsory redundancies as possible.
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Mr Steve King, leader of the hard left, denounces his fellow-councillors as dunderheads, nincompoops and dolts.
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The showing for the hard left was disappointing.
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They were stars of the hard left, but we have heard little about them during the election struggle.
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Too little, say the Tories, too much says the hard left.
the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing
top left/right/centre
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A slightly larger percentage of pairs of brooches were more abraded on the top right than the top left corner.
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Here we want the Series in a column so check Columns in the box at the top left.
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The completed board is shown top left.
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The dark area in the top right is deep, clear water.
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The file was a standard office file with a Prior, Keen, Baldwin label stuck in the top right corner.
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The majority of single brooches examined were found to be more abraded on the top left corner than the top right.
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The plane again runs roughly from top left to bottom right.
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Using a tapestry needle threaded with the embroidery colour, begin at the top right of the motif.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The entrance to the freeway is on the left .
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To the left of the church is an old shoe factory.
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You can get a ticket at the booths on your left .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Back, then to the left .
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Below her a gigantic cat head also dozes, while a furtive, headless male figure hurries off to the left .
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It has had to invent a left with which to scare itself.
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The man on his left had been doing a scarf for a year, she said.
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To his left ran a modest lane which meandered northward to several small villages.
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You are a man of the left , yet you are in a government backed by a conservative party.
IV.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A waiter led her to the table she'd booked downstairs, and left her to study the menu.
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All that's now left to show of the nights activity, are the tyre marks on the road.
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He left behind a closetful of fine suits and white shirts, which Magnus also put to the torch.
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I would stink of cabbage and ammonia and sweat for days after I left .
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More than 70, 000 families have left the system over the past two years, saving taxpayers over $ 100 million.
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The blast seared two co-workers and left him with second-and third-degree burns from his knees to his scalp.
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Why have so many left the older urban cores?
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You mean you just upped and left like that!