Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] from [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One other noteworthy source of support to franchise bidders , bringing resources less of money than talent ( though they often acquired shareholdings later ) were the experienced broadcasters , many of whom came from the BBC ( inevitably , in 1955 ) . |
| 2 | Despite relegation to the Third Division the club kept a playing staff of thirty-eight , twenty-five of whom came from the Barnsley area and were almost all miners or the sons of miners . |
| 3 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 4 | Although many of the teachers who qualified from the Bournemouth training course have since deserted the area , Audrey Archer ( a founder member in the Sidcup group ) and her daughter Sandra Williams keep our name to the fore in DORSET . |
| 5 | He also became one of the small group of scholars who translated from the classics for Penguin Books , for which he contributed versions of Plutarch , Polybius and Dio Cassius . |
| 6 | However , in April a thief who fled from a house in Hartlepool , Cleveland onto an adjacent cricket pitch was apprehended on the boundary by two of the fielding side — one a prison officer , the other a police cadet . |
| 7 | ‘ It was just like Rambo , ’ said one of the scores of horrified students who fled from the university after the massacre . |
| 8 | ‘ It was just like Rambo , ’ said one of the scores of horrified students who fled from the university after the massacre . |
| 9 | But Sgt Hinde , 37 , ran after the four men who fled from the Nissan . |
| 10 | At this point the rebel soldiers entered the prison , overpowered the guards and freed Bibit who fled from the compound by car . |
| 11 | The Molesworths , all three , arrived with Dr Wyn , who hooted from the lane . |
| 12 | Tyson , the man who rose from the ghettos of New York to the pinnacle of boxing success , had his world destroyed when he was judged guilty of violating a beauty queen whom he was convicted of luring to his room and raping . |
| 13 | The man who rose from the bench seemed to offer a grudging apology , but Byrkin would not have seen the gesture as he scrabbled on the floor for his slice of black bread . |
| 14 | The incompetence of the king , and the arrogance and greed of the Despensers , had so alienated men from the court that none except the few who profited from the king 's favour would fight for him . |
| 15 | The crucial difference between the Germans and the Poles who profited from the efforts of the Colonisation Commission and the Polish banks through the sale and resale of farms and estates was that , while the Germans would eventually sell up for good and move away westwards to retire on money invested in Germany 's growing industrial enterprises , the Poles would stay put , use their money to consolidate their farms and purchases , and deposit their savings in the Land Purchase Bank . |
| 16 | However , it is perhaps significant that environmentalism received little attention as long as it was only the poor and the powerless who suffered from the detritus of industrial society . |
| 17 | In the rather fresher air of rural areas the poor were healthier and lived longer than the urban poor , who suffered from the ravages of urban atmospheric pollution , overcrowding and unhealthy working conditions . |
| 18 | , Edward Alexander ( ‘ Aleister ’ ) ( 1875–1947 ) , writer , better known by his chosen name of Aleister Crowley ( 1898 ) , was born 12 October 1875 in Leamington Spa , the only son and elder child ( the daughter died in infancy ) of Edward Crowley , evangelist and wealthy retired brewer of Crowley 's Ales , and his wife Emily Bertha Bishop , who came from a Devonshire and Somerset family . |
| 19 | , Gwendolen Mary ( 1876–1939 ) , artist , was born 22 June 1876 in Haverfordwest , Pembrokeshire , Wales , the elder daughter and the second of four children of Edwin William John , solicitor , and his wife Augusta Smith , who came from a Brighton family . |
| 20 | , Sir ( Robert ) Ashton ( 1845–1929 ) , industrialist , was born 4 February 1845 in Dursley , Gloucestershire , the third of four sons and the sixth of eight children of George Lister , tanner and wire card-maker of Dursley , by his second wife Louisa Richards , who came from a Dursley family of maltsters . |
| 21 | THERE never was a leader who came from a place with a more appropriate name . |
| 22 | The normal procedure was that , at an elaborate ritual ( the tali-tying ceremony ) which had to be held before her first menstruation , every girl was " married " to a ritual husband who came from a matrilineage which had the status of enangar in relation to her own . |
| 23 | , John ( 1826–1893 ) , hymn writer , was born 16 December 1826 in Clerkenwell , London , the elder son ( there were no daughters ) of George Ellerton , of private means , who came from a Yorkshire family , and his wife Jemima Frances , short-story writer . |
| 24 | A girl who came from the village to help with the laundry had told the Community of the marchioness 's death . |
| 25 | The Archdeacon of London , George Cassidy , who came from the Ulster Loyalist community , was not keen on compromise . |
| 26 | , John ( 1624–1701 ) , republican administrator and colonial governor , was the son of John Blackwell , a Puritan-inclined London businessman , who at one time supplied the royal household with groceries and latterly settled in Mortlake in Surrey , and his wife , who came from the Smithesby family , royal household servants . |
| 27 | It was from here , I reflected , looking through the windows at a small scattered town , that the despatcher had spoken to George and me the previous evening : and while I watched , George appeared outside and was met by a man who came from the station . |
| 28 | The man at the British customs was much sterner than the magistrate who came from the capital to investigate crimes committed in our village . |
| 29 | The expression is well known in the South , especially among service families and may I add , there were a great number of fine soldiers who came from the South in units as famous as that fine body of men who serve and have served in the DLI . |
| 30 | There had been a good many glasses and now he signalled to Midnight who came from the shadows by the far wall , bringing a bottle of port to refill the glass held out . |