Example sentences of "who had [verb] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly before the altar a ‘ light shining from heaven , in the manner of a sunbeam ’ appeared , which was seen as a sign of divine approval of Stanford 's opposition to Edward II and the Pope , who had deposed him from the bishopric of Durham . |
| 2 | Even with the whitewash skeleton painted on to him , Benny had no difficulty recognizing the serpentine man who had kidnapped her from the museum . |
| 3 | So had Nicol perceptibly brightened , though rather with the hope of getting his revenge on the devils who had tumbled him from the wagon , and threatened his companions with steel and arrows . |
| 4 | Celia and Brassard , who had overheard everything from the outer office , exchanged rueful glances . |
| 5 | The NDP captured 348 out of the total of 444 elective seats in the Assembly , although 93 of these were to be occupied by candidates who had distanced themselves from the leadership . |
| 6 | Captain Kinloch had inherited the estate of Kinloch in Strathmore from his younger brother , John , who had purchased it from the proceeds of a fortune made as a sugar planter in Jamaica , and had died in 1770 . |
| 7 | The United Stales of America — who had excluded themselves from the League of Nations — did nothing about the matter . |
| 8 | The transport arranged was the same taxi-driver who had brought them from the airport . |
| 9 | If I had ever thought of the possibility of being taken prisoner while I was in England , I should have expected all Germans to be like the officer who had tried to interrogate me at the aerodrome or the two soldiers who had brought me from the aerodrome to Amsterdam . |
| 10 | ‘ I bought them from Mr and Mrs Bumble , who had stolen them from the nurse , who had stolen them from Agnes , the dead girl . |
| 11 | They belonged to Hammersmith Council who had bought them from the BBC for something like three million pounds . |