Example sentences of "who [vb past] [verb] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They became , in a sense , a captive labour force ; those who tried to escape from the land to neighbouring towns could be forcibly returned or punished . |
| 2 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 3 | There was one man near Tynemouth who was known as ‘ Dead Bodies ’ , so named because he earned seven and sixpence for collecting ( by hook ) the corpses of suicides who 'd jumped from the Tyne Bridge , ten miles up-river . |
| 4 | Every month he 'd read a list — it was a list of names of young men , and some women , who 'd vanished from the face of the earth . |
| 5 | CHRISTOPHER BUSHNELL was a Liverpool wine merchant who decided to move from the city and build an honest , solid house in the beautiful Wirral . |
| 6 | The south-west was far enough from the established centres of power for those who felt excluded from the throne to use it as a launching pad for rebellion . |
| 7 | Despite the opposition of the dominant culture , the music of those within the culture but not of it , the blacks , found resonance with the experiences of others who felt alienated from the established order . |
| 8 | Two sailors who went missing from the destroyer H-M-S Gloucester off the Isle of Man have been arrested in Lancashire . |
| 9 | Most of the 25 NorthEasterners who died hailed from the Teesside area . |
| 10 | Who left departed from the fellowship , I think , is n't he ? |
| 11 | Former BNP members who had split from the party in July 1988 ( see p. 36558 ) formed the Bangladesh Democratic Party in July 1989 . |
| 12 | The two men , who had escaped from a coach taking them to the magistrates ' court in Reading , were taken to hospital to have their broken arms set in plaster . |
| 13 | Suddenly Hari thought of the man who had escaped from the prison , he was the same sort as Emily Grenfell , no doubt before he fell from grace they would have met and socialized . |
| 14 | Chief amongst them was Roger Mortimer of Wigmore , who had escaped from the Tower while under sentence of death . |
| 15 | Interestingly , there are signs that those who had escaped from the royal mouvance were not entirely comfortable in their independence . |
| 16 | Of the hundreds of prisoners who had escaped from the orphanage there were still a number hidden in the surrounding countryside , but I did not know where . |
| 17 | The experiences of some of the Second World ( communist ) countries , those who had escaped from the grip of global capitalism , particularly the Soviet Union and then China , seemed to lend support to the argument . |
| 18 | Watt , who had to withdraw from the loose-head prop berth for last weekend 's Paris international on account of a ‘ viral complaint ’ , has had a series of tests under the care of the SRU 's honorary surgeon , Donald MacLeod , and they will continue when he sees another specialist on Monday . |
| 19 | Fifty four of the original 70 patients attended the examination and two additional patients who had moved from the district had gastroscopy done elsewhere . |
| 20 | Lying on the floor was my one legged soldier , Sam , who had fallen from the shelf . |
| 21 | Proudly holding his RFC logbook , in which is a section headed ‘ Rendcomb ’ — here was a man who had flown from the aerodrome not for recreation and a sense of history , but to ready himself and others for war . |
| 22 | When Mr Baker quoted Henry 's words before Agincourt — ‘ He which hath no stomach to this fight , let him depart ’ — it was seen , not as an attack on Labour , but a slight on the Chancellor who had decamped from the conference for Blaby . |
| 23 | The Pompey chimes were echoing around north London as the 20,000 supporters who had travelled from the south coast prepared to celebrate . |
| 24 | He reminded her of his father , who had suffered from a lung disease . |
| 25 | Schweinfurt people who had suffered from the bombing avoided the speech , saying they ‘ did n't want to know any more of the war ’ and that ‘ the Führer is mentally disturbed and megalomaniac ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They were almost all men who had risen from the lower middle or even working class . |
| 28 | Major Sylvain Raynal was a man of great courage who had risen from the ranks . |
| 29 | Another influential grandfather was a Scots miner who had retired from the pit to become the gardener of a big house at Broomie Knowe . |
| 30 | Fierce , sourly wise old adepts , who had retired from the field of stars , coached the intake of novices in the outer secrets of the art of the Inquisitor , his ken and practice . |