Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.

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31 Sandra had just arrived back in time to hear Mrs Foster 's grim assessment of the situation .
32 Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea .
33 When she had finished she turned to Nara , who had just come back with the things she needed and was peering round the door , as if he was too scared of her magic to come right in .
34 The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig .
35 ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity .
36 Tremayne made more than his usual fuss over Fiona , sensing some sort of turmoil , telling her comfortably that Mackie had just come back from Ascot races where he 'd sent a runner for the apprentice race which had proved a total waste of time .
37 Lee had just come back from shopping .
38 At last week-end 's ICA conference , the film generated a single comment , from a producer on Channel 4 's Out series , Claire Beavan , who had just come back from America where she was making a programme about Hollywood homophobia .
39 Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back .
40 By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel .
41 Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen .
42 Agnes had taken a smaller one ; she had just got back from her service 's registry .
43 ‘ I have just come back from lecturing in New York and I am off to lecture in Hong Kong .
44 ‘ I have just come back from talking to Alfred and I telephoned Maurice . ’
45 A sentence such as John and his friend have just come back from New York can be used to illustrate an insertion task .
46 John and his friend have just come back from New York , you know .
47 John and his friend have just come back from New , you know , York
48 John and his , you know , friend have just come back from New York .
49 Gail , who is also looking forward to the birth of her first baby in November , said : ‘ We have just come back from two wet weeks in Bournemouth and said we could do with spoiling ourselves with a stay in a luxury hotel then I was told I had won — it 's amazing. , ’
50 modern rhythmic gymnastics was created by the Russians … our top girls have just come back from special coaching over there … it showed in the championships … the best yet and the the closest with Alitia Sands of Coventry winning by point nort five of a point
51 There is a dusting of snow in Cwm Glas Mawr and above , while clouds have just rolled back from the summit ridge .
52 Four British Muslims freed by Saddam Hussein from captivity in Iraq , have just arrived back in England , the wife of one of them says she 's overjoyed at the news .
53 The group 's clarinettist Tracy Redfern and flautist Philippa Bradford , Nicola 's older sister , have just got back from a visit to Germany with Kirklees junior wind band .
54 John 's there with his mate Paul , who 's just got back from work .
55 my dad 's just got back from apparently Millie 's quite brown and my mum they 're not
56 She promised to find out , and she 's just come back with the results .
57 He 's just come back from holiday , and starts school today . ’
58 He 's just come back from Australia
59 An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand .
60 No he 's just come back from Tunisia on holiday so he 'll need it .
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