Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 31 | We 've just come back from Chile , where chemical pollution , factory fishing , and poverty are the everyday reality facing fishermen , slowly destroying their ability to make a living and support their families . |
| 32 | Tell them we 've just come back from that . |
| 33 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
| 34 | Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years . |
| 35 | I 've just come across from the factory ; it 's windy out . ’ |
| 36 | Sometimes , you 've just come home from work and your feet are sore and your head aches , but then the music starts playing and away you go . |
| 37 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 38 | You know you th either come back and they 're embracing each other and cuddling and there 're a few tears and everything and er everything 's hunkydory and you start traipsing back in with all the bloody stuff you 've just brought out from beforehand you see . |
| 39 | ‘ We 've just got back from Southampton , ’ said my mother , as though this circumstance presented a total barrier to further movement . |
| 40 | ‘ You 've just got back from Rhodes , we hear . ’ |
| 41 | Well it , it 's been stupid this laid on this settee falling down back , it 's blinking ridiculous , yeah , we 've just got back from hospital and they 'll send her a letter for er , to make an appointment for her to go back , to see what the treatment they 're gon na give her , so , will it go in Pete 's car ? |
| 42 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 43 | ‘ I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn . |
| 44 | He had just turned away from us and read a book . |
| 45 | It was a programme about the ( then ) proposed orbital cities , and even boasted an interview with a very youthful Ewan Famber , who had just passed out from the Tech-Green High College weighed down with honours and acclamations . |
| 46 | ‘ O Jesus Christ , ’ he said , looking over my shoulder as if JC had just wandered in from the garden , ‘ did you die for this boy ? ’ |
| 47 | And then she saw to her amazement that the man who had just climbed down from the cab was knocking on her door . |
| 48 | Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea . |
| 49 | In 1911 he returned to railway service as personal assistant to ( Sir ) H. Nigel Gresley [ q.v. ] , who had just taken over from Ivatt on the Great Northern railway . |
| 50 | Ruth Atucehene , an immigrant from Ghana , said : ‘ I had just come home from church and I was in the house with my children . ’ |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | Lee had just come back from shopping . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 58 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 59 | His stage set , along with the thumping music , flashing lights , and dry-ice clouds that go with it , had just come in from Scotland , and was due to head south as soon as we television camp-followers had done our reports in front of it . |
| 60 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |