Example sentences of "just [vb pp] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was next morning that Hazlitt came down to breakfast to find Coleridge with a letter he had just received from the Wedgwoods . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | We have just heard from the hon. Gentleman that all our proposals for discounts for single people and alleviation of the top rates of the tax are anathema to the Labour party , which wants to return to the full rigours of the rates . |
| 5 | Even when she had just fallen from a catwalk , Dana had a vivacity Claudia could n't match . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She sat or perched on an upright chair smiling like an angel just dropped from the skies . |
| 8 | I mean it was just lifted from the scripture and and put into a prayer or whatever . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've just come from a session with Gladys Brown , a strange woman who has the room next to Meryl Armitage 's . |
| 10 | Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've just come from a crossroads called Quatre Bras , sir . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've just come from a meeting with Bobby Anscombe . |
| 13 | ‘ Ma'am , I have just come from the market . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've just come from the kinema . |
| 15 | I 've just come from the Foreign Office , and you 're immediately on a new assignment . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've just come from the Appeal Court . |
| 17 | They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives . |
| 18 | I 've just come from the Embassy . |
| 19 | As it happened the new ramp section was only just rescued from a bulldozer in the nick of time as the skate scene said a final goodbye to Andover skatepark . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's just phoned from the car to say that as far as he could tell Harry had nothing to do with it . |
| 22 | THE woods seem but just freed from the horror of primeval sea , if that is not primeval sea washing their bases . |
| 23 | He had just turned from the window , intent on leaving , when the woman walked back into the room . |
| 24 | Seeing the British soldiers , the startled men sat and ate though they had just risen from a complete meal . |
| 25 | Of this Estabrook had perfect proof when , by chance , he suggested , but looked , Charlie thought , like a man just risen from a fever . |
| 26 | Some of the Left had just defected from the ILP and had no desire to join with it again . |
| 27 | Now we may suggest that that 's the effect of the Second World War biasing alright biasing the estimates that we 've just produced from the whole sample . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Still hammering away , the Institute has the satisfaction of knowing that it has at last brought home to the Ministry of Health , within whose purview this question comes , that things are not what they ought to be , and Dr Eichholz , who has just retired from the Chief Inspectorate of Special Schools , is at its request making a special enquiry . |