Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] just [vb pp] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've always thought it unlikely , but I 've just heard from George this morning that it is impossible . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I 've just heard from Channing , and his men have drawn a total blank in the village . |
| 3 | I 've just returned from South Africa , during which he went to stay with Sally Newcombe and refused to eat anything for a week and a half ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've just come from work . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've just come from Harold 's . |
| 6 | I have just received from Anne Jessel the 25 splendid custom picks , printed with my name and my own slogan . |
| 7 | Good morning David , I 'm enclosing three pages of a fax which I have just received from Teagasc capital T E A G A S C which is self explanatory stop , I hope you can make it all out , comma , if not please come back to me , full stop , paragraph , it would be a help if you could get your shipping agents to provide us with the rates they would have charged paragraph , many thanks and best regards , Sam . |
| 8 | No details of any other claims by 261 Squadron pilots are available , but their opponents are believed to have been aircraft on the 23° Gruppo C.T. , which had just returned from Libya . |
| 9 | In could come David West , who has just returned from holiday , while Colin Ramirez and Gary Macartney , substitutes at the weekend , may be in the starting line-up . |
| 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 | Going straight from state ownership to worker ownership is unlikely to change the company 's culture or management style , believes Mr Laurie Brennan , chief executive of New Bridge Consultants , an arm of the law firm , Clifford Chance , set up to promote employee share ownership , and who has just returned from Poland . |
| 12 | If you 'd just rung from Bryn 's place I could have at least made myself presentable , cariad ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But you 've just driven from Paris ! |
| 14 | The news she had just received from Dorothy 's doctor had come as a dreadful shock , and for the moment she could not trust herself to speak . |
| 15 | Her arms felt languorous , her flesh soft and relaxed as if she had just awakened from sleep . |
| 16 | For the first time I met Jeremy 's father , who had just arrived from America , and together we went in to see the body . |
| 17 | Next morning while we were loading , Omar brought a young but responsible-looking man over to me who had just arrived from Asba Tafari . |
| 18 | I spoke to as many reinforcements as I possibly could , especially those who had just arrived from Achnacarry . |
| 19 | All the usual social suspects were there , including Princess Firyal of Jordan , who had just returned from Acapulco where she visited Ricky and Sandra di Portanova in their permanent tent . |
| 20 | The Israeli Foreign Minister , Moshe Arens , of Likud , who had just returned from America , detailed the proposal of the US Secretary of State , James Baker , for three-way consultations on the composition of the Palestinian delegation . |
| 21 | We could n't talk because I believe he badly wanted to telephone someone who had just returned from China , so it was just a handshake really . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | Claire Hughes , 25 , who had just returned from Australia for a family Christmas , was trapped with Robert , 26 , and widowed mum Kitty , 60 . |
| 24 | The author was an Englishman , Dr Farrar , who had just died from typhus . |
| 25 | 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 : |
| 26 | Back to our lead story , and we 've just heard from Paris that |
| 27 | A sample : We 're coming in to land at Speke My legs are feeling very weak We 've just returned from Barcelona And now I 'm going for a sauna Toshack is of Scottish descent , and there is certainly a bit of McGonagall in there , though not the best bit . |
| 28 | ‘ We have just returned from Zakopane and we would like to express our delight in all aspects of the holiday . |
| 29 | Mr Davies , 40 , who attended with his parents , Derek and Joan , said he has just returned from Bosnia , which the Queen said must be a dreadful place to work . |
| 30 | I respect them , especially so as he has just come from South Africa . |