Sentence examples for leaving a collection from inspiring English sources

And besides, I'm not leaving a collection -- I'm leaving a system".

When the Germans invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939, the Feldmanns were evicted from their home, leaving a collection of Old Master drawings in Gestapo hands.

In 1992, Gerald Segelman, 93, who had arrived poor from Austria and made a fortune on a chain of provincial English movie theaters, died in London, leaving a collection of old Italian instruments that would eventually be valued at $20 million to $30 million.

Peptides resulting solely from tryptic cleavage were removed from the dataset, leaving a collection of 13 unique proteins with semi-tryptic cleavage sites (Table S7).

Ádám Pálóczi Horváth left a collection of 450 poems, a treasure-house of authentic folk songs.

He leaves a collection of French Impressionist paintings that is considered one of the finest private collections in the country.

Her father had left a collection of guns and ammunition when he died, and it had taken her years to get rid of it.

When Viktor Mayer-Schönberger's stepfather died, he left a collection of 16,000 heavy glass photographic slides, his visual record of decades travelling the world.

She left a collection, estimated to be worth $1 billion even without "Canyon," to Mr. Homem and Ms. Sundell, who have already paid $471 million in state and federal estate taxes.

Senator Clark left a collection of more than 800 artworks to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Washington, where they form the William A. Clark Collection, and Mrs. Friedman carried the flag there, succeeding her father as the family delegate to the museum.

Every death leaves a collection of mysteries in the objects left behind: each piece of the inheritance is a question for which there is often no answer, only speculation.