Example sentences of "[noun sg] just [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alexia Lindsay says that most of the ephemera money just came from guide books and maps ; illustrated theatre and concert programmes ; and leaflets , all ephemeral things , apparently of no intrinsic value , but ‘ printed collectibles ’ as they are now called – and spelt ! |
| 2 | She was a large , beefy creature , with wisps of hair just freed from curlpapers writhing round her moon-like face . |
| 3 | It fits with a common experience of addiction , that of needing to do more and more of the drug just to keep from feeling bad . |
| 4 | Although Marx highlighted the necessity of the proportionality between use-values in such exchanges in the passage just quoted from , in his own analysis he still concentrated upon the creation of value and surplus-value in his examination of the capitalist production process . |
| 5 | But her mother , who was hostile to facts , had gone on entertaining for her as if she were a chaste child just emerging from school . |
| 6 | She sat or perched on an upright chair smiling like an angel just dropped from the skies . |
| 7 | And notwithstanding the invariable belief of these coaches that their own programme-of-the-moment is writ large on a tablet just descended from Heaven , there are no absolutes about which kind of exercises are best to get you fit over a short period of time . |
| 8 | Her objective is to keep him fit between shows , which in the Yorkshire Dales is not a problem ; the horses at Heyside Farm have to climb a substantial hill just to get from the stableyard to the road . |
| 9 | December 8 , 1924 : I am at the moment just recovering from a heavy bout of drinking . |
| 10 | ‘ Mr Blake , your fiancée just arrived from England . ’ |
| 11 | Its found some doctors walk up to eighteen miles every day just getting from patient to patient . |
| 12 | A survey has found that some hospitals are so badly designed that doctors spend four hours of every working day just walking from one ward to another . |
| 13 | It sounds unfair — to a visitor just arrived from Mars . |
| 14 | And people say they noticed how tightly O was holding Boy , pulling him closer and closer to him , as if he was clutching at him ; and how he smelt Boy too , taking in big draughts of the air around him , as if he was a man just escaped from drowning holding onto something and pulling the sweet night air down into his lungs in great grateful gulps . |
| 15 | Of this Estabrook had perfect proof when , by chance , he suggested , but looked , Charlie thought , like a man just risen from a fever . |
| 16 | It reminds me of when , as a young man just flown from the comfort and security of the parental nest , I rented a small flat . |
| 17 | The SoftPC version that get on the Mac will be the full Windows product that Insignia just licensed from Microsoft . |
| 18 | ‘ But we lost nine or ten players through injury and the whole thing just snowballed from there . ’ |
| 19 | HOME Secretary Kenneth Clarke might appreciate a letter sent to Horsham police by a convict just released from prison . |