Example sentences of "have just [verb] from " in BNC.

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31 A group of ornithologists has just returned from an expedition to an arid area in Mexico in which you are keenly interested .
32 Les Stocker , the animal saviour from St Tiggywinkles Wildlife hospital at Haddenham has just returned from the islands after a fortnight 's hard work .
33 This driver has just returned from France , after managing to get through the blockade .
34 A relief worker from one of the region 's charities who has just returned from Somalia says the appalling suffering of women and children will remain etched on his mind for ever .
35 In could come David West , who has just returned from holiday , while Colin Ramirez and Gary Macartney , substitutes at the weekend , may be in the starting line-up .
36 Catherine , who was born in Middlesbrough , trained at Newcastle and has just returned from working in Australia .
37 He has just returned from working as a photographer for six months on the Russian liner Karelya .
38 Durham solicitor David Keating has just returned from Albania where he led a delegation of lawyers to help establish the legal profession there .
39 Mr Davies , 40 , who attended with his parents , Derek and Joan , said he has just returned from Bosnia , which the Queen said must be a dreadful place to work .
40 The Rev Dr Fergus Macpherson of the British Council of Churches has just returned from Malawi , where he talked to the president for life , Hastings Banda .
41 Oag has just returned from Tokyo , and will set off for a climbing exhibition in Grenoble in a few days .
42 Walker , who has just returned from a two-week fact finding mission , is now preparing a detailed report for the Latvian authorities .
43 TEENAGE striker Stephen Perkins has just returned from a week 's trial at Stoke City and the Potters have expressed great interest .
44 Professor Jack Spence of Leicester university has just returned from a fact-finding tour of South Africa .
45 Clarke is now tournament professional at the K-Club , Straffan , County Kildare — he has just switched from the equally fashionable Mount Julliet , County Kilkenny — and manager Andrew Chandler believes a European victory is definitely on the cards for Ulster 's emerging star .
46 For his own paddling Andy has just changed from the AeroQuatic to the Dagger Crossfire and can now do brilliant 360s without paddles .
47 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 .
48 Bad enough to feel the way she did , let alone have to spend time with a man who treated her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone .
49 Her prosecutor was looking at her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone .
50 ‘ Not at all as if you 'd just dismounted from a horse .
51 Maggie asked Ethel who 'd just returned from the top level .
52 It lasted only a year ( although there was no divorce until 1957 ) and some time after that Peter Lawford made the mistake of meeting Ava , who 'd just returned from a trip overseas , for a drink in a Hollywood restaurant .
53 On an outing to the obscure Gate Crag in Eskdale we picked a route called Bosigran — this had to be climbed because I 'd just returned from my first climbing trip to Cornwall .
54 If you 'd just rung from Bryn 's place I could have at least made myself presentable , cariad ! ’
55 I do n't suppose old Pope Leo the Tenth sat around gazing at the latest thing he 'd just commissioned from Michelangelo , for instance .
56 ‘ I 'm not surprised ! ’ the other girl agreed sympathetically , having just heard from Laura the full story of her traumatic outing , which had culminated in her being arrested and ending up in the New York police station .
57 He concentrated upon the doctor 's neat , white shirt , his thin , anxious neck and his general air of having just surfaced from some particularly nasty branch of the Inland Revenue .
58 ‘ Trevor Newsom , ’ said Derek Carlisle , ‘ is now on Luctia , having just arrived from Vasca where he earlier recorded the interview we have just seen . ’
59 Having just returned from America where I drove a Jeep for about 70,000 miles on Goodyear Wranglers ( standard fit by Solihull to the Discovery ) , I was singularly unimpressed by them .
60 Having just returned from this delightful island where the people are so friendly and courteous and where the cost of living is much less than in the UK , I thought the following information could be helpful .
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