Example sentences of "who [vb past] [vb pp] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 2 | There was one man near Tynemouth who was known as ‘ Dead Bodies ’ , so named because he earned seven and sixpence for collecting ( by hook ) the corpses of suicides who 'd jumped from the Tyne Bridge , ten miles up-river . |
| 3 | Every month he 'd read a list — it was a list of names of young men , and some women , who 'd vanished from the face of the earth . |
| 4 | The south-west was far enough from the established centres of power for those who felt excluded from the throne to use it as a launching pad for rebellion . |
| 5 | Despite the opposition of the dominant culture , the music of those within the culture but not of it , the blacks , found resonance with the experiences of others who felt alienated from the established order . |
| 6 | Most of the 25 NorthEasterners who died hailed from the Teesside area . |
| 7 | Who left departed from the fellowship , I think , is n't he ? |
| 8 | Former BNP members who had split from the party in July 1988 ( see p. 36558 ) formed the Bangladesh Democratic Party in July 1989 . |
| 9 | Suddenly Hari thought of the man who had escaped from the prison , he was the same sort as Emily Grenfell , no doubt before he fell from grace they would have met and socialized . |
| 10 | Chief amongst them was Roger Mortimer of Wigmore , who had escaped from the Tower while under sentence of death . |
| 11 | Interestingly , there are signs that those who had escaped from the royal mouvance were not entirely comfortable in their independence . |
| 12 | Of the hundreds of prisoners who had escaped from the orphanage there were still a number hidden in the surrounding countryside , but I did not know where . |
| 13 | The experiences of some of the Second World ( communist ) countries , those who had escaped from the grip of global capitalism , particularly the Soviet Union and then China , seemed to lend support to the argument . |
| 14 | Fifty four of the original 70 patients attended the examination and two additional patients who had moved from the district had gastroscopy done elsewhere . |
| 15 | Lying on the floor was my one legged soldier , Sam , who had fallen from the shelf . |
| 16 | Proudly holding his RFC logbook , in which is a section headed ‘ Rendcomb ’ — here was a man who had flown from the aerodrome not for recreation and a sense of history , but to ready himself and others for war . |
| 17 | When Mr Baker quoted Henry 's words before Agincourt — ‘ He which hath no stomach to this fight , let him depart ’ — it was seen , not as an attack on Labour , but a slight on the Chancellor who had decamped from the conference for Blaby . |
| 18 | The Pompey chimes were echoing around north London as the 20,000 supporters who had travelled from the south coast prepared to celebrate . |
| 19 | Schweinfurt people who had suffered from the bombing avoided the speech , saying they ‘ did n't want to know any more of the war ’ and that ‘ the Führer is mentally disturbed and megalomaniac ’ . |
| 20 | He believed that the central problem was that of helping the existing aged poor who had suffered from the bad industrial conditions of the past , and that younger generations should be induced to save . |
| 21 | They were almost all men who had risen from the lower middle or even working class . |
| 22 | Major Sylvain Raynal was a man of great courage who had risen from the ranks . |
| 23 | Another influential grandfather was a Scots miner who had retired from the pit to become the gardener of a big house at Broomie Knowe . |
| 24 | Fierce , sourly wise old adepts , who had retired from the field of stars , coached the intake of novices in the outer secrets of the art of the Inquisitor , his ken and practice . |
| 25 | Abas , who had retired from the intelligence services in 1988 , was alleged to have been responsible for human rights violations during the period of military rule in 1980-83 . |
| 26 | Rawlings , who had retired from the air force on Sept. 14 in order to comply with electoral rules excluding serving members of the armed forces from candidacy , stood for the National Democratic Congress ( NDC ) [ see p. 39084 ] . |
| 27 | The reviewer called him a ‘ Joycean Hell 's Angel ’ who had created from the tawdry San Francisco Tenderloin district ‘ an unnerving and utterly persuasive rendition of hell ’ . |
| 28 | A still , small voice inside him murmured ‘ this is all too easy ’ , but offers flooded in from the combines , the multi-nationals , the companies who had profited from the rape of the Earth , and who were now taking their ecological molestation into space . |
| 29 | Nathan , who had emerged from the room behind , took in the situation at a glance and , with a blood-curdling scream , threw himself at Lennon . |
| 30 | 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 . |