But some have gone, leaving behind empty houses, huge investments, and shattered dreams.
The resulting pattern formation (i.e., wave patterns by which infections spread quickly leave behind empty space that can only be filled by uninfected individuals) explained male killer persistence, even when transmission efficiency was perfect.
The have dried now but what's left behind is empty exasperation.
"Feed me, feed me," he begged, inhaling the candy aroma left behind on an empty wrapper he found on the bedroom floor.
Then he turns to the crueller English word, "retard," and decides that "there is a kind of accidental poetry in naming a human being with this quality of latency or absence, like a clock left behind in an empty room, a page someone forgot to rip out of a calendar, the walking embodiment of jet lag".
The most vulnerable children, then, are left behind in quickly emptying buildings, which sit waiting for a Proposition 39 takeover bid, which allows new charter schools to open in the unused classroom space.
Then it seems as if I've been left behind, not in an empty nest but in Rumpelstiltskin's castle.
Within minutes, the last dignitaries were whisked away, leaving behind empty streets full of litter.
Boeing and Northrop Grumman had both moved out of Rosslyn, leaving behind empty buildings.
More major chains are expected to file for bankruptcy this year, leaving behind empty stores.
