Sentence examples for had only left from inspiring English sources

Clapson had only left his last job to care for his elderly mum, and before that had worked for 29 years.

When I moved in with Michael, I had only left home the year before, and I still hadn't come out to my family.

Merkel called for a major centralisation in Brussels of sovereign national powers in fiscal, budgetary, and economic policies, arguing that action already taken during three years of the euro crisis had only left the job half-done.

After quick stops in San Francisco and Oakland it was on to Oregon - and landscapes and weather than could not have been more different than the desert we had only left days before.

BMW had only left the four new owners with about 500 million pounds ($834.5 million) to invest in the company barely enough to cover running costs and pension and labor obligations there.

The gallery proved to be "clean and empty, as if the workmen had only left".

The drummer has only left England once - he was playing in a wedding band in Swindon!

"This blackout may have only left those in parts of the Northeast and Midwest in the dark, but it had consequences throughout the country," Mr. Lautenberg wrote.

He is by some margin the youngest person in the block and feels so isolated that he has only left the flat five times in as many months.

It's not that bad, I've only left it at my parents' house, which we were looking after for the week.

Though the armed forces remain so discredited that they are no longer seen as a threat, 20 years of democracy have only left Argentines discouraged and humbled.