Example sentences of "had leave him [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The road accident that had left him lame had also worn him down .
2 The snare had left him weak and overwrought .
3 The journey from Philadelphia was a fraught one , Boyd says , principally because Johnson — an uncompromisingly direct ladies ' man whose prolonged career as a plongeur had left him unused to the excitements of the open road — offered robust salutations to every woman pedestrian they passed en route .
4 The abortive kidnapping had left him drained — too exhausted even to contemplate the consequences of his failure .
5 He had woken from his brief sleep , emerging out of nightmares that had left him drained and sickened .
6 He had not been able to deal so skilfully with his own wife , however , that relationship needing more of himself than he could spare from the animals , and she had left him many years ago .
7 He had left him asleep in the cottage , an act of merry .
8 Sylvie had left him these two .
9 It had left him alone to think about the problems he had to face and how he would overcome them .
10 The only question , in fact , was where his father had gone , why he had left him alone .
11 Enforced bachelorhood had left him unkempt and ill-groomed .
12 His father had left him 20 acres called ‘ Margarettes Stacyes land ’ in North Marston which , with common rights added , must have been equivalent to something like 30 .
13 He and Matey had employed servants before , even quite attractive ones , and he had felt no temptation at all , they had left him cold , but McAllister …
14 The truth was , Froebe 's almost entirely military life had left him unable to cope with anyone who was n't either a bloodthirsty volunteer , or a conscript to be whipped into shape .
15 The last minute had left him naked in a desert of infinite horror .
16 He reappeared in the following year 's repeat win over Aberavon , but by the time Swansea were beaten in 1976 his knee had left him idle again .
17 The illness and its treatment had left him bald and so weak that he could hardly stand , but throughout the spring and summer he gradually regained his fitness .
18 Trotsky 's final expulsion from the Soviet Union had left him free to encourage groups of supporters elsewhere , though his main concern remained the policies of the Soviet state and Party .
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