Example sentences of "who [vb past] from the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite constructing one of their most positive displays for some time they lost to a French team who profited from the only genuine opportunities they created . |
| 2 | James II 's marriage to Mary of Gueldres had the attraction of providing him with a queen who came from the great artillery-making centre of northern Europe . |
| 3 | I was married to Bernard Parkin for fifteen years , a man who came from the lower middle class , but identified quite violently , for a number of years , with the workers . |
| 4 | She pinned her thoughts on Rosemary , her friend and neighbour from across the corridor , who came from the same sizeable Dorset village that she did . |
| 5 | It was a surprise because the candidates who emerged from the famous political machine put together by his late father ( also Richard Daley ) did poorly . |
| 6 | My dear friend — if I may so describe him — the previous Foreign Secretary , who resigned from the right hon. Lady 's Government over Europe , was equally thrilled , although he did not express himself — he never does — in quite such colourful language . |