Example sentences of "he left [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He left also a timeless description of Fowey , where ‘ … the little boats that lie tethered to the rings and stancheons of the old sea wall are gaily painted as those I clambered in and out of in my own childhood … and by the windows the great vessels glide , night and day , up to their moorings or forth to the open sea . ’ |
| 2 | He left just a few days before Christmas in 1984 . |
| 3 | He left only a token force of 3000 horsemen under the command of Motamid . |
| 4 | When the last de Burgh Earl of Ulster died in 1333 he left only a daughter , Elizabeth Countess of Ulster in her own right , whom the king married to his second son , Lionel of Antwerp , created Duke of Clarence in 1362 . |
| 5 | He left only a daughter , Jane , a lunatic . |