Example sentences of "who [vb past] [vb pp] from the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He tried to keep his eyes off the little man who had emerged from the ship . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | There was no fire there , now , no sign of life , nor of the spirit that had once shrieked at the local folk who had emerged from the fortress demesne to loot and honour the dead : Four black-robed women and one man , robed in grey , a greybeard : he had understood the mythology of stone . |
| 34 | The bag struck the paving , bounced , and now the boy caught it and peeled away the bag to reveal a football which he struck in a high , curling shot which ricocheted off the wall slightly to the left of a priest who had emerged from the large church which dosed off one end of the piazza . |
| 35 | Mansell , who had led from the record 14th pole position start of his season , had been resisting persistent challenges from Senna before the pair tangled . |
| 36 | The constable was soon joined by his colleagues and between them they obtained detailed descriptions of the man who had dashed from the direction of the bakery . |
| 37 | They housed , apart from the indigenous Scottish families , Jewish immigrants from Russia and eastern Europe who had fled from the pogroms endemic to these lands ; and thousands of Irish families who had likewise fled , not from murderous Jew-baiters , but from the potato famine of the 1880s . |
| 38 | According to the rules established by Lanfranc for refugee inhabitants of nunneries who had fled from the Normans but had not taken monastic vows , Gunhilda was eligible for marriage . |
| 39 | She would be the first to know , then he would throw a party to tell his friends who had graduated from the Red Army Academy with him the previous year . |
| 40 | The Senior Account Executives ( SAEs ) at DPR Futures were dealers who had graduated from the ranks of the accounts executives due to their exceptional sales performances . |
| 41 | employing personnel who had graduated from the course within one year to carry out interviews ; and |
| 42 | ‘ Worldly Paris mingled in these sessions with artists in sweaters who had come from the Rotonde and the Dôme … |
| 43 | He spoke to the lad who had come from the workhouse at the same time as Lydia . |
| 44 | Sports editor Bob Edwell , who had come from the Daily Express in London , was looking for sports writers , and above all the paper needed its back bench staffed by the all-important sub-editors , who prepare the reporters ' words ( the copy ) for the paper , and write the headlines . |
| 45 | The frustration was perhaps greatest among the senior men who had come from the company sector , but municipal engineers also could find the professional , full-time and expert Central Authority control daunting in comparison with the earlier part-time , politically-appointed municipal electricity committees which had been easier to manipulate . |
| 46 | The solution was provided by Mark Cole , a brilliant climber and naturalist who had come from the UK with us . |
| 47 | In his public statements on the dispute Lal portrayed it both as a factional struggle , between himself and members of Janata Dal who had come from the Prime Minister 's Jan Morcha group , and as a conflict between urban politicians and a representative of rural India . |
| 48 | In addition , trouble threatened from the mercurial figure of Winston Churchill , who had resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in January 1931 in protest at Baldwin 's acceptance of eventual self-government for India , an issue which threatened to be an explosive one for the Conservative party , since it allied Churchill to the fourth source of discontent : the Diehard element , also strongly represented amongst the grass roots of the party . |
| 49 | Edward Boyle , who had resigned from the previous Government over its management of the Suez crisis , became his Parliamentary Secretary . |
| 50 | In resigning the South Bronx district seat which he had held since 1978 , Garcia followed the example of fellow Democrat Mario Biaggi who had resigned from the House of Representatives in August 1988 after being convicted in connection with the Wedtech affair [ ibid . ] . |
| 51 | Mann , who had resigned from the Lok Sabha in October in protest at the recent extension of President 's rule in the state [ see p. 37775 ] , had previously been authorized to represent two other Akali Dal factions ( Badal and Longowal ) at the talks . |
| 52 | The President of the Russian Federation , Boris Yeltsin ( who had resigned from the CPSU in July 1990 — see p. 37617 ) , issued a decree on July 20 banning the activities of all party political organizations from enterprises and government bodies , both republican and union , within the Russian Federation , with effect from Aug. 4 . |
| 53 | It had once been possible to trust a few Fascist families , especially those who had sons who had deserted from the army on 8 September ; but that was changing . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | On a third occasion , Alexander II was returning from the front during the Russo-Turkish War and recognized on a station platform an officer who had deserted from the army . |
| 56 | He said he obtained the grenades from a friend who had deserted from the war in Armenia , adding that he had no military background and was not quite sure how grenades worked . |
| 57 | The Country opposition were also deeply suspicious of the influence of the new financial interest , and a significant number of those who had benefited from the financial revolution of the 1690s were Whigs , many of them Dissenters . |
| 58 | Many of the poster writers were former students , the older generation of educated youth who had returned from the countryside . |
| 59 | She looked accusingly at Silas , who had returned from the water 's edge in time to hear this part of their conversation . |
| 60 | 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 . |