Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] who have [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the poem Coleridge see himself almost as a shamanic figure who has returned from a prophetic trance , someone whose duty is to spread ‘ the milk of Paradise ’ . |
| 2 | Ca n't ca n't we hear from some of the women in this audience who have benefited from this system ? |
| 3 | But I was walking in the market place , shortly after , only about just over a week after , and I met an old fellow who had retired from Hello Graham ! |
| 4 | CD 's reference to his succeeding the experimental philosophical pig who had died from ‘ taking a bath at too high a temperature ’ , and thus falling a victim ‘ to his thirst for knowledge ’ is a jocose allusion to Pliny 's death during the eruption of Vesuvius , which he was trying to study at close quarters . |
| 5 | A rugby-mad milkman made his best ever tackle — he caught a 14-month-old baby who had fallen from her bedroom window . |
| 6 | He tried to keep his eyes off the little man who had emerged from the ship . |
| 7 | Major Sylvain Raynal was a man of great courage who had risen from the ranks . |
| 8 | The tall black man who had emerged from the Lincoln was dressed in a dark blue three-piece suit that looked incongruously heavy for such a hot day . |
| 9 | Many of the poster writers were former students , the older generation of educated youth who had returned from the countryside . |
| 10 | Another influential grandfather was a Scots miner who had retired from the pit to become the gardener of a big house at Broomie Knowe . |
| 11 | For Jaq called to mind the fat , fussy majordomo and Lord Voronov-Vaux of the red vision — but not a bloodthirsty vision , and the great-eyed girl who had scampered from his bed , and all the survivors of the Genestealer uprising who had dolefully expected that their lives would at least continue after the disaster . |
| 12 | He started going to ‘ Aid Spain ’ meetings and after listening to a medical student who had returned from the country he decided to help in the most direct way . |
| 13 | Leese was a veterinary surgeon who had retired from his practice in Stamford in Lincolnshire in 1928 . |
| 14 | Grooms came at once , and briskly , to take the bridles , and a spruce page came bounding down the steps from the hall door to greet the newcomers and discover their business here , but he was waved away by an older steward who had emerged from the stables . |
| 15 | Surgeons operated on a 22-year-old American male who had died from gunshot wounds . |
| 16 | In charge was a vivacious Viennese lady who had fled from danger , and who now put her outstanding skills in child welfare to good account . |
| 17 | Endill had been dragging an ironing-board back from a room where everything was half buried in the floor when , turning a corner , he bumped into a tall thin man who had appeared from nowhere . |
| 18 | , Henry ( 1629–1692 ) , journalist , was born in the Strand , London ( he was baptized 5 February 1629 ) , the son of Edward Muddiman , a prosperous tradesman who had come from Wolfamcote , Warwickshire . |
| 19 | An eighteen-year-old boy who had flown from India to marry a Calcutta girl now living in Liverpool was detained for three days by the officials , who suspected him of being under age and of using marriage as a trick to get a work permit . |
| 20 | Mandy had just left out one crucial detail when she had described the young woman who had arrived from England . |
| 21 | Diane exchanged a couple of words and a smile with a young man who had emerged from a side door carrying a clipboard and what looked like a litre bottle of clear water . |
| 22 | The somewhat shy , reserved young man who had arrived from England two years ago had long since disappeared although he had not lost his English accent . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This was in memory of a local boy who had died from multiple sclerosis and it was hoped that the prize would encourage the young men to take part . |