Example sentences of "and leave [pers pn] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the films he 'd sweep me into his arms and say , ‘ Thank God you 're safe , darling ! ’ and his uncle in the States would die and leave him a million dollars . |
| 2 | Marry me and I 'll make you a fine lady and leave you a rich widow . |
| 3 | But in reality this is precisely the approach that is most likely to set Europe aflame and leave it a burning ruin . |
| 4 | The two sisters were both in their fifties , both ex-nurses , neither ever married ; they 'd taken on the restaurant as a late-life decision when their father had died and left them a shared inheritance . |
| 5 | Unfortunately many of the Dizzy games were written on the Spectrum and ported across to the C64 , slowing the action hideously and leaving it a cruel parody of its Speccy counterpart . |
| 6 | My father died when I was five , and left me a large sum of money in trust until my twenty-fifth birthday . |
| 7 | He looked as though by being born he had sapped his mother 's strength and left her a used-up husk . |