Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 've just come from a crossroads called Quatre Bras , sir . |
| 32 | ‘ I 've just come from a meeting with Bobby Anscombe . |
| 33 | ‘ We 've just come from the kinema . |
| 34 | I 've just come from the Foreign Office , and you 're immediately on a new assignment . |
| 35 | ‘ I 've just come from the Appeal Court . |
| 36 | I 've just come from the Embassy . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | After 30 seconds or so , he stops and rubs his left hand across his face in the way I do when I 've just woken from a night 's sleep . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Seeing the British soldiers , the startled men sat and ate though they had just risen from a complete meal . |
| 41 | He had just escaped from a ship at Sharpness docks . |
| 42 | It was next morning that Hazlitt came down to breakfast to find Coleridge with a letter he had just received from the Wedgwoods . |
| 43 | Even when she had just fallen from a catwalk , Dana had a vivacity Claudia could n't match . |
| 44 | I was feel very proud of myself because I had just progressed from a tiny red tricycle to riding a huge yellow proper bicycle , with stabilizers . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | He had just turned from the window , intent on leaving , when the woman walked back into the room . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | The two-car Pacer train had just emerged from a tunnel when it ploughed into 11 cows . |
| 50 | PC Reid , a second RUC officer and a group of soldiers had just emerged from a field and were about to set up a roadblock on the Castleblaney Road on the outskirts of the town , when the shot rang out . |
| 51 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | A roar of falling water as a door opened and closed indicated that someone had just emerged from the lavatory . |
| 55 | ‘ 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 . |
| 56 | Gwendolen was dad in dark grey and was wearing the hat she had just purchased from the Iduns Brothers Bazaar . |
| 57 | Morse held up the photograph of Theodore Kemp which he had just removed from the living room . |
| 58 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 59 | He was only twenty-six and had just recovered from a slipped disc . |
| 60 | Mowbray said : ‘ I had just recovered from an Achilles injury on my right leg when I hurt my left ankle . |