Example sentences of "[been] left a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was particularly unlucky to be alone , for she had first married at 18 , but after losing a child had been left a childless widow at 25 . |
| 2 | He will tell you he has been left a better player and a better person . |
| 3 | Playing open chords around the bottom frets feels fine ; the top two strings have been left a little high at the nut , but the E , A , D and G are perfect . |
| 4 | ‘ The club game has always been left a bit behind . |
| 5 | A teenage waitress has been left a £300,000 tip by a man who used to dine at her restaurant . |
| 6 | Like Graham and Sabrina he too had been left a holdall , containing a Geiger-Muller counter and his favourite handgun , a Browning Mk2 , in a locker at the main railway station where he had spent three hours studiously checking the invoices for all the freight loaded at the goods yard over the past ten days . |
| 7 | Two were ‘ career ’ users , one of opioids and one of speed ; one woman 's husband was a dealer ; two other women began to steal from their husband 's ‘ stash ’ without his knowledge ; two were unemployed ; and one had been left a small legacy just prior to his heroin use . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been left a house in France , end of subject , except that it is my intention — ’ |
| 9 | At that moment the door to the next room , which had been left a little ajar , opened and a slim , petite woman came in , elegantly dressed in a blue crêpe de Chine suit that echoed the colour of her eyes . |