Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] have [adv] [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 2 | By half past ten , Deirdre ( Molloy ) Kavanagh had parted with all her little triangles of tricoloured pastry , taken off her apron , drunk a few glasses of champagne , told several guests that broccoli was out of fashion , and was busily engaged in conversation with a television journalist who had just returned from making a programme for Charles in Iran . |
| 3 | Maggie asked Ethel who 'd just returned from the top level . |
| 4 | In the event Clinton won the New York contest comfortably , and saw Brown beaten into third place by Paul Tsongas who had already withdrawn from the contest . |
| 5 | These patients were all members of a family of Kurdish refugees who had recently arrived from Turkey , not patients from the AIDS wards or clinic . |
| 6 | Eleanor Driscoll , a working-class housewife who has recently moved from a two-room slum into a local authority house , puts it like this : |
| 7 | Whichever way his tastes lie , and whatever the capacity of his purse and his bookshelves , it is certain that no other single work offers to the collector such variety of choice , experience and discovery as four and a half centuries of the book of which Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale ( 1609–76 ) wrote to one of his sons who had just recovered from smallpox : |
| 8 | Dr Kenneth Duncan was a biologist who had recently retired from the top management of the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 9 | He wrote a short book entitled What Happened in Burma , described on the cover as ‘ the frank revelations of a young Burmese revolutionary leader who has recently escaped from Burma to India ’ . |
| 10 | A relief worker from one of the region 's charities who has just returned from Somalia says the appalling suffering of women and children will remain etched on his mind for ever . |
| 11 | Skip was saying this to Bilou who had just come from grand-prix multihull racing in France . |
| 12 | The party won the support of people who fear change and apparatchiks who have most to lose from it — hence the thumping 30% the party won in East Berlin . |
| 13 | Stendhal immortalized the city in La Chartreuse de Parme , describing the beautiful women who walked in the streets as Madonnas who had just emerged from the paintings of Correggio and Parmigianino . |
| 14 | The farmers who have undoubtedly profited from producing heavier crops of higher-yielding varieties that rely on nitrates also share the blame . |
| 15 | Indeed the Next Steps Report found that : ‘ People who had recently resigned from the Civil Service told us that frustration at the lack of genuine responsibility for achieving results was a significant factor in encouraging them to move to jobs outside . ’ |
| 16 | FIGURE 2 Proportion of day spent engaged in constructive activity by people who have yet to transfer from hospital |
| 17 | Any people who have ever suffered from itches that they can not scratch will sympathize with the dilemma of the de-clawed cat . |
| 18 | Their new play begins on a sandy beach with ten happy people who have all escaped from their commitments . |
| 19 | As you know , I am a manager who has never shirked from putting a player 's welfare before football and , unlike many less tolerant managers , I was quite happy for Steve Gillery to hold his stag ‘ night ’ at 10 a.m. on the morning of the match , albeit a game crucial to our survival . |
| 20 | In 1987 I worked with a chief inspector who had just returned from university having read for a Bramshill scholarship in what he called ‘ black letter law ’ . |
| 21 | They were named as Col. Mangwane Khosana , Gqozo 's former right-hand man who had recently escaped from custody facing treason charges , and Lt.-Gen. |
| 22 | You do n't look like a man who 's just escaped from a fire . ’ |
| 23 | One evening Rachel invited her to dinner , to meet some old family friends who had recently retired from academia and moved to London . |
| 24 | Vijay Singh and Paul Broadhurst are just two examples of young players with real potential who have obviously benefited from the experience . |
| 25 | A volunteer who had lately returned from China where she had seen another aspect of the refugee problem spent her first evening at Dovercourt simply observing the children . |
| 26 | A doctor who 's just returned from helping victims of the civil war in Somalia has been describing how the surgeon next to him was shot in the operating theatre as they were trying to save a patient 's life . |
| 27 | Some of the skiers who have already benefited from this charity are Martin Bell , Deidre Angella , Michael Dixon , Louise McKenzie , Brynrefail School and Barnardo 's Homes . |
| 28 | She had a steady boyfriend who had never suffered from herpes himself , and , after a difficult first year following her primary attack , she had gradually improved until she finally went nine months without any trouble . |
| 29 | Meanwhile it is male colleagues who have largely benefited from this anti-lesbianism . |