Example sentences of "[verb] risen from [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clinton had risen from impoverished childhood in Hope , Arkansas , to work his way through Georgetown University and hold a Rhodes scholarship ; he became the nation 's youngest sitting governor at 32 in 1979 . |
| 2 | The two most influential men in Bruges , the castellan and the dean of St Donatian 's , ex officio chancellor of Flanders , were both members of a powerful new family , the Erembalds , which had risen from servile origins to prominence by the route of comital administrative service . |
| 3 | He was a man who , like Marius Steen , had risen from humble origins to immense wealth and had surrounded himself with all the symbols of the established aristocracy . |
| 4 | Upon her death the property was bought by Matthew Lath , a man who had risen from humble origins through hard work and good fortune . |
| 5 | he had risen from humble beginnings to great wealth to become that legendary favourite of American politics , the poor farm boy who made good . |