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left - use in sentences
Possessives
- fake: For example, the SWP became the fattest of the fake ' lefts ' via decades of the most reactionary anti-Soviet opportunism.
Converse of object
- turn: Turn right then the next left into Grainger Street.
Preposition: at
- roundabout: On exiting the tunnel take the first left at the large roundabout then right at the next roundabout.
Adjective modifier
- sharp: Go through the village bearing sharp left at junction.
- upper: Notice the two workers in the upper left of the picture.
- extreme: In the second picture, I'm standing at the far side of the table and my son is standing on the extreme left.
- top: The straight edge at the top left shows the Si 110 plane.
- socialist: It was the only credible national challenge to New Labor from the socialist left.
- anti-war: Al-Qaeda is also sustained by sections of the anti-war left who provide it with moral and political substance.
Modifies a noun
- side: Insert the needle into the left hand side of the graft from outside in, 5mm from the graft edge.
- corner: Place the image against the top left corner of the scanner.
- wing: Four parallel vertical grooves on bottom left wing; 3 parallel oblique grooves on right wing.
- leg: All the outside of his left leg looks like someone did im over with a cheese grater.
- button: Press the left mouse button near the object to be moved.
- shoulder: Subtle, gray stitched branding logo on back of left shoulder.
Noun used with modifier
- turn: Take the 1st exit at the roundabout and then the immediate turn left which leads onto Oxford Street.
Preposition: of
- midfield: From his position wide on the left of midfield, Stuart Elliott contributed 29 league and cup goals.
- screen: Look at ' Note taking ' in ' Writing Skills ' in the menu to the left of the screen.
- entrance: Continued clearing at to left of entrance to terminal dig passage.
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