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

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1 Professor Jack Spence of Leicester university has just returned from a fact-finding tour of South Africa .
2 A delegation of lawyers from the British Romanian Law Association has just returned from a successful trip to Romania , having given seminars in two Romanian cities and met with representatives of the Romanian Bar Association .
3 TEENAGE striker Stephen Perkins has just returned from a week 's trial at Stoke City and the Potters have expressed great interest .
4 The two-car Pacer train had just emerged from a tunnel when it ploughed into 11 cows .
5 The speaker had just returned from a ‘ little-known place , in Southern Africa — Lesotho , or ‘ Basutoland , as it used to be called ’ .
6 PC Reid , a second RUC officer and a group of soldiers had just emerged from a field and were about to set up a roadblock on the Castleblaney Road on the outskirts of the town , when the shot rang out .
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