Example sentences of "who [verb] [noun sg] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The region around Chimoio is swollen by 400,000 people who sought refuge from the civil war . |
| 2 | The great Croat writer , the late Miroslav Krleža , in his Ballade Petrice Kerempuha , written in the kajkavski dialect of the Zagreb region , was one of many who drew inspiration from the terrible events of 1573 . |
| 3 | The second day , and some of the third , belonged to Andrew Hudson , who drew strength from the eerie vacuum to become the first to score a century on Test debut for South Africa in 104 years . |
| 4 | It seems more likely , however , that the banks who received income from the landed re-lent within that class and contributed more to agricultural than industrial progress . |
| 5 | A similar sample of 100 was taken from the 216 clients who received counselling from the local Drugs Council . |
| 6 | For bishops , then for presbyters , finally for deacons , Western churches came to expect and ultimately to require celibacy ( though the canonical compulsion was not seriously enforced until medieval times and even thereafter in parts of Europe , like Southern Germany or Wales , it was common for village priests to have a consort and a family , with the support of their flock and the connivance of their bishop who derived income from the annual fee or tax to allow the arrangement ) . |
| 7 | For he was the Queen Mother 's steeplechaser who belly-flopped yards from the Grand National winning post , the horse who grabbed defeat from the very jaws of victory in such a way that even those with no interest whatsoever in the sport of racing still recall the sight of ‘ that horse who jumped the fence that was n't there ’ . |