Example sentences of "[Wh det] left he [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As Alan sat him in his cot and left the room , Christopher began to howl in earnest again , interrupted by spasms of coughing which left him breathless .
2 Montgomerie was upset after a second-round 77 in Agadir which left him 14 shots behind then leader , Jamie Spence , and criticised the set-up of the tournament .
3 Walter Geikie was born on 9th November 1795 in Edinburgh , the eldest son of Archibald Geikie , a pharmacist by occupation but a philosopher by inclination , and when still only two years old , contracted a ‘ brain fever ’ ( probably meningitis ) which left him deaf for life .
4 The victim of a vicious assault has been talking about the attack which left him unconscious and with a broken jaw .
5 Matthew suffered from Severe Combined Deficiency Syndrome , which left him open to any infection .
6 He showed immense physical courage in fighting the illness which left him unable to walk again unaided .
7 Hugh had been with NLS for some nine years but unfortunately developed a heart condition which left him unable to drive at work .
8 In 1922 he left his Worcester parish to run the church of St Edmund King and Martyr in Lombard Street in the City of London , a non-parochial cure , which left him free for his major postwar work as ‘ messenger ’ of the Industrial Christian Fellowship , which had come into being in 1920 as a result of the amalgamation of the Christian Social Union and the Navvy Mission Society .
9 Which left him free to do all the practical work which he really liked .
10 Weak and under-nourished , he barely survived a dose of diphtheria , which left him weaker than before , and an even softer target for the torments of his three hefty brothers .
11 One difficulty lay in the endless commissions he received , usually for illustrative work within an established vein and which left him little time to experiment .
12 His health was poor , for he suffered constantly from a malarial type disease , quartan ague , which left him feverish and weak .
13 That 's what left him open to what she was going to do to him .
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