Example sentences of "who had [vb pp] from the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Interestingly , there are signs that those who had escaped from the royal mouvance were not entirely comfortable in their independence .
2 He believed that the central problem was that of helping the existing aged poor who had suffered from the bad industrial conditions of the past , and that younger generations should be induced to save .
3 They were almost all men who had risen from the lower middle or even working class .
4 The reviewer called him a ‘ Joycean Hell 's Angel ’ who had created from the tawdry San Francisco Tenderloin district ‘ an unnerving and utterly persuasive rendition of hell ’ .
5 The bag struck the paving , bounced , and now the boy caught it and peeled away the bag to reveal a football which he struck in a high , curling shot which ricocheted off the wall slightly to the left of a priest who had emerged from the large church which dosed off one end of the piazza .
6 She would be the first to know , then he would throw a party to tell his friends who had graduated from the Red Army Academy with him the previous year .
7 In his public statements on the dispute Lal portrayed it both as a factional struggle , between himself and members of Janata Dal who had come from the Prime Minister 's Jan Morcha group , and as a conflict between urban politicians and a representative of rural India .
8 Sports editor Bob Edwell , who had come from the Daily Express in London , was looking for sports writers , and above all the paper needed its back bench staffed by the all-important sub-editors , who prepare the reporters ' words ( the copy ) for the paper , and write the headlines .
9 Edward Boyle , who had resigned from the previous Government over its management of the Suez crisis , became his Parliamentary Secretary .
10 We had recently begun to shelter a young man who had deserted from the Italian army in the south and had somehow managed , with the help of various Italians whom he met on the way , to reach Fontanellato .
11 The Country opposition were also deeply suspicious of the influence of the new financial interest , and a significant number of those who had benefited from the financial revolution of the 1690s were Whigs , many of them Dissenters .
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