Example sentences of "who [vb past] from the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Amun , " the hidden one " , was an early deity , later described in the creation legend of Hermopolis as a formless god who rose from the primeval ocean . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Most puzzling was that the worse it got , the more people bought it , and — horror of horrors — it was cheerfully read in large numbers by the very people who suffered from the hackneyed prejudices and stereotypes it dispensed — notably blacks , gays and women . |
4 | The squadron also flew the Iraq Levies , A sort of RAF Regiment of the day , they were mainly Kurds who came from the far north of Iraq excellent soldiers but poor airmen who generally laid their breakfast on the cabin floor whilst we were taxying , to take-off . |
5 | The farmers remember the lawless boom times a decade ago , when they grew as much coca as they could manage for the drug traffickers who came from the other side of the continent to their market town . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | At one time he also had a nanny , who came from the German-speaking part of Switzerland . |
8 | Yentob and his colleague Michael Jackson , who came from The Late Show to run the music and arts department , are picking up warm endorsements for assuming Channel 4 's mantle of experiment . |
9 | The popes had to come to terms with the nobles and those who came from the noble families of the city naturally built up their own families and factions in order to survive . |
10 | But her words were interrupted by Silas , who came from the main office . |
11 | With the exception of Speshnev 's subsection , the " Petrashevtsy " ( as Petrashevskii 's associates came to be known ) were no more radical than others who dissented from the administrative and social practices of Nicholas I. The Dictionary of Foreign Words was one of a number of indirect criticisms of the regime to find its way into print in the 1840s . |
12 | The tall stoop-shouldered European in a white suit and felt hat who climbed from the gleaming car and offered a languid hand in greeting to Duclos he recognized first as Auguste Lepine , the director of the Indigenous Labor Recruitment Agency . |
13 | Many are soldiers of the cross who returned from the Holy Land to find their places filled . |
14 | The winner of stage eight was the Australian , Patrick Jonker , who escaped from the leading break of 13 riders with a mile to go and came in 12 seconds ahead in a time of 4 hours 40 minutes 45 seconds for the 125 miles . |
15 | There she quit the throughway , to race along feeder lanes , dodging through refugees who shrank from the fleeting , faceless , coaly-skinned woman . |
16 | This would lead to all sorts of science-fictionlike possibilities for people who survived from the expanding to the contracting phase . |
17 | Requisitioned by the Home Office at the start of the Second World War the Manor provided accommodation for the Canadian Air Force who flew from the nearby air base of RAF Linton . |
18 | The family of a woman who died from the human version of Mad Cow Disease are claiming she was a victim of contaminated hormone fertililty treatment . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Who resigned from the Labour Party to form the New Party in 1931 ? |
21 | But Terry Vaux , the WRU committeeman who resigned from the International Board because of the row , has written to clubs in his area , Gwent , informing them that Rowlands had encouraged him to attend . |
22 | Yesterday he and Botha lunched with Terry Vaux , the WRU committee man who resigned from the International Rugby Board as a result of the South African row . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | The Bloc was founded by Lucien Bouchard , the former Environment Minister who resigned from the federal government in May 1990 [ see p. 37519 ] , who was joined by six other defectors from the PCP and the Liberals . |
25 | Two others announced their candidatures : Yameogo , who resigned from the transitional government at the end of August and Pierre-Clavier Damiba , a UN official . |
26 | Thus a miner who slipped from the worn and greasy rungs was liable to fall a long way and a dropped tool could clatter its way down to cause death or injury to some fellow below . |
27 | It soon went too fast for him and the village pastor who appeared from the other direction was nearly frightened to death ! |