Example sentences of "had just returned [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | Apart from the sore cracks between most of his toes , the skin was heavily calloused and his heels were covered in blisters ( he had just returned from a particularly arduous walk ) . |
2 | I had just returned from a training stint in Lanzarote . |
3 | He had just returned from a fresh session with the PM at Downing Street . |
4 | He had just returned from a visit in 1937 to the Government fighting front in Spain . |
5 | The speaker had just returned from a ‘ little-known place , in Southern Africa — Lesotho , or ‘ Basutoland , as it used to be called ’ . |
6 | Poor had just returned from a week in bed with flu when she was picked to test the trapeze . |
7 | He looked as though he had just returned from a Chas'n Dave concert or tied up Hercules the horse in the Steptoe and Son barn . |
8 | He had just returned after a 3-day affair with another woman which had brought on the crisis . |