Example sentences of "have [adv] come [adv] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 2 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 3 | Sorry , the ghost has n't come over from the other side of the door , it just keeps moving by itself . |
| 4 | I 'm afraid Mr Steen has n't come up from the country . ’ |
| 5 | But no , she could not ride tomorrow , her boots had not come back from the shoemaker 's . |
| 6 | Edward had not come back from the construction firm at David with anything saved up , but then , she had hardly expected him to . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
| 9 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
| 10 | I 've just come across from the factory ; it 's windy out . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Traders buying nutmegs and doves from Arabian merchants had been aware of their existence for centuries ; Marco Polo knew roughly where they were , for he saw junk traffic in the ports of Cathay loaded down with spices and manned by suntanned crews who had clearly come there from the south . |
| 19 | I 've often come home from a job , or visiting so-called happily married friends , and thanked heaven fasting for my lot . |
| 20 | It 's great fun , very enjoyable , but for a young women who 's perhaps come up from a convent or an all girls ' school and who feels very uncomfortable with this person because he 's thirty years older and has power over here , it 's not perceived in the same way . |
| 21 | ‘ These have just come through from the printers . ’ |
| 22 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |
| 23 | Well they have n't come back from the shop yet . |