Sentence examples for had left then from inspiring English sources

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When we worked for the coffee machines company, the first contact came up by chance: we have had a colleague - from THEN - he had left THEN some years ago and he had started at this coffee machines company.

Pretending to be asleep one night, the woman waited until her husband had left, then slipped into a red dress.

With his face nearly expressionless and his voice flat, Mr. Shi said that he stayed after everyone had left, then stole jewel-encrusted gold purses and powder cases on loan from a wealthy Hong Kong art collector.

Having got into the building, Basil waited until a man in a neighbouring business had left, then, with a black binbag slung over his shoulder, opened a fire escape door to the building.

If that meant that I needed to squeeze a lifetime in whatever weeks he had left then I wanted to make sure I could do that for me.

I spent the next three hours trying to salvage what I'd done with the dregs of wrapping paper my mum had left, then locked myself in my room, slept through Christmas lunch and waited until the evening – when I could hear my grandpa singing "Fairytale of New York" (meaning everyone was suitably drunk) – to sneak down and join in proceedings.

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It became our war, and we should have left then".

We could have left, then and there, but he continued to nibble.

I didn't like their idea, and I should have left then.

Having left, then rejoined The X Factor once before, Walsh now promises he's "flat-out left, I'm not going back to the show, absolutely gone".

As the film tracks Philippa's movements, it also monitors the morning rounds of a janitor on the same floor who empties that wastebasket into the trash shortly after Philippa has left, then waits for an elevator with the trash.

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