Example sentences of "just returned from [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had just returned from addressing the UN General Assembly in New York where he had given an assurance that democracy was now firmly rooted in Haiti . |
| 2 | She herself had just returned from taking Emma to school . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | While Jackson , who had just returned from filming a television clip , was mildly bemoaning the pressure it had placed on him to be ‘ incredibly entertaining for one minute ’ , his press officer was engaged in ordering him a beer from room service . |
| 5 | Catherine , who was born in Middlesbrough , trained at Newcastle and has just returned from working in Australia . |
| 6 | He has just returned from working as a photographer for six months on the Russian liner Karelya . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She has just returned from interviewing rape victims in Bosnia during a nine-day mission led by the International League of Human Rights.While European Community officials estimate 20,000 women have been raped , Francoise Hampson says quantification is impossible . |
| 9 | Robertson had just returned from holidaying in India when Major proposed his Kurdish safe havens policy to a meeting of EC leaders . |