Example sentences of "just [vb pp] from " in BNC.

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1 How could she spend Roman 's money so lavishly when she had just parted from her lover ?
2 It was next morning that Hazlitt came down to breakfast to find Coleridge with a letter he had just received from the Wedgwoods .
3 I have just received from Anne Jessel the 25 splendid custom picks , printed with my name and my own slogan .
4 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 .
5 The news she had just received from Dorothy 's doctor had come as a dreadful shock , and for the moment she could not trust herself to speak .
6 The Exec Director gave the DDA a number that he had just received from his bureau chief in London .
7 May I draw the Economic Secretary 's attention to a study that I have just received from the House of Commons Library 's statistical section ?
8 Good morning David , I 'm enclosing three pages of a fax which I have just received from Teagasc capital T E A G A S C which is self explanatory stop , I hope you can make it all out , comma , if not please come back to me , full stop , paragraph , it would be a help if you could get your shipping agents to provide us with the rates they would have charged paragraph , many thanks and best regards , Sam .
9 ‘ Well , I 've just heard from Channing , and his men have drawn a total blank in the village .
10 ‘ I 've always thought it unlikely , but I 've just heard from George this morning that it is impossible .
11 As expected , she found that subjects were very accurate at distinguishing a sentence they had only just heard from similar sentences with semantic or syntactic changes .
12 We have just heard from the hon. Gentleman that all our proposals for discounts for single people and alleviation of the top rates of the tax are anathema to the Labour party , which wants to return to the full rigours of the rates .
13 ‘ 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 .
14 Back to our lead story , and we 've just heard from Paris that
15 Even when she had just fallen from a catwalk , Dana had a vivacity Claudia could n't match .
16 Billy had just shuffled from one foot to the other and blushed as all dutiful sons should do .
17 It reminds me of when , as a young man just flown from the comfort and security of the parental nest , I rented a small flat .
18 She sat or perched on an upright chair smiling like an angel just dropped from the skies .
19 I mean it was just lifted from the scripture and and put into a prayer or whatever .
20 Peter has just come from California to make ‘ a film of English life ’ which will involve the reconstruction of an English residence in Hollywood .
21 I respect them , especially so as he has just come from South Africa .
22 ‘ I 've just come from down there , have n't I ?
23 ‘ Ma'am , I have just come from the market .
24 ‘ We 've just come from the kinema .
25 ‘ I 've just come from identifying my sister in the temporary mortuary .
26 Also for most of the time at this period in their affair Boy was either slightly drugged , or drunk , or exhausted ; and he was in a permanent state of sexual tension , for either he had just come from O's bed or he was on his way to it .
27 ‘ I 've just come from Harold 's .
28 Word had just come from Ottawa , he told me , confirming his suggestion that I be promoted to the post of Production Manager for the CBC , as from the end of the month .
29 ‘ We 've just come from there , ’ Karelius protested .
30 ‘ In the car you 've just come from , madam , ’ I answered helpfully .
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