Example sentences of "have just [verb] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's because Tony has just emerged from the players ' tunnel . |
| 2 | Though no more than five feet and seven inches in height , he was strongly built , with the air of one who has just emerged from the gymnasium or the boxing booth . |
| 3 | A wing is composed of upper and lower layers which may readily be separated in an insect which has just emerged from the pupa . |
| 4 | He has just emerged from the studio after recording his third album ; there will be many musical surprises in store . |
| 5 | Les Stocker , the animal saviour from St Tiggywinkles Wildlife hospital at Haddenham has just returned from the islands after a fortnight 's hard work . |
| 6 | A young woman living in a semi-detached house on an unpopular Sheffield estate showed me a letter she 'd just received from the electricity board : " A board employee will … call at your premises to cut off the electricity supply on 9/11/82 . |
| 7 | I 've just retired from the Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service after just over thirty years service having reached , reached the er full time that I matured , that 's thirty years service and attaining the ripe old age of fifty five . |
| 8 | I 've just walked from the car . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We 've just come from the kinema . |
| 10 | I 've just come from the Embassy . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've just come from the Appeal Court . |
| 12 | If you remove the piece of rib you 've just knitted from the machine and then compare its width with the width of the needles in working position , you 'll see what I mean . |
| 13 | It was next morning that Hazlitt came down to breakfast to find Coleridge with a letter he had just received from the Wedgwoods . |
| 14 | Tessa , a keen machine knitter , was a little nervous as she had just moved from the South and was conscious of the supposed North/South divide but she found the warmest welcome . |
| 15 | He had just turned from the window , intent on leaving , when the woman walked back into the room . |
| 16 | IBM Corp traditionally sends departing executives off with glowing resumees of their illustrious careers , so it was striking that the announcement late Friday that former chairman and chief executive officer John Akers had just retired from the company after 33 years was accompanied by the briefest and curtest summaries of his career — after all , the man had significant achievements behind him when he acceded to the top job , and it is arguable that many of the problems that plagued the company during Akers ' tenure were the fault of his predecessors , although it must be said that he was also in the loop at the time . |
| 17 | The ‘ nearest thing she could get ’ to a Lord Ismay was Sir Michael Palliser , who had just retired from the headship of the Diplomatic Service . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The dominant factor , in relation to poor housing conditions , lack of proper sanitation , food shortages and growing unemployment , was the fact that the country had just emerged from the horrors of the First Great War . |
| 20 | A roar of falling water as a door opened and closed indicated that someone had just emerged from the lavatory . |
| 21 | ‘ Because we had just switched from the Lothian District League to the National League I thought it was a good time to concentrate on coaching , ’ she said . |
| 22 | Gwendolen was dad in dark grey and was wearing the hat she had just purchased from the Iduns Brothers Bazaar . |
| 23 | Morse held up the photograph of Theodore Kemp which he had just removed from the living room . |
| 24 | Some of the Left had just defected from the ILP and had no desire to join with it again . |
| 25 | Sergeant Bramble had just returned from the Manor House upon his bicycle . |
| 26 | Jesus had just returned from the country of the Gerasenes . |
| 27 | His name was Mason , and he had just returned from the West Indies , where Mr Rochester had once lived . |
| 28 | When I spoke with him yesterday he had just returned from the funeral of his father-in-law , who had died after months of cancer . |
| 29 | We need greater co-operation in Europe in these matters , because immigration and asylum flows are a major political concern , as we have just noted from the exchanges about Le Pen and the way in which people are feeding upon his visit . |
| 30 | May I draw the Economic Secretary 's attention to a study that I have just received from the House of Commons Library 's statistical section ? |