Example sentences of "[noun] have just [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen .
2 The educated classes had just stood back as the aspiring politician and the over-eager Methodist forced the showmen into a reliance on the melodramatic and the romantic .
3 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 ’ .
4 Lee had just come back from shopping .
5 The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig .
6 A sentence such as John and his friend have just come back from New York can be used to illustrate an insertion task .
7 John and his friend have just come back from New York , you know .
8 John and his friend have just come back from New , you know , York
9 John and his , you know , friend have just come back from New York .
10 One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping .
11 modern rhythmic gymnastics was created by the Russians … our top girls have just come back from special coaching over there … it showed in the championships … the best yet and the the closest with Alitia Sands of Coventry winning by point nort five of a point
12 Sandra had just arrived back in time to hear Mrs Foster 's grim assessment of the situation .
13 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 .
14 my dad 's just got back from apparently Millie 's quite brown and my mum they 're not
15 There is a dusting of snow in Cwm Glas Mawr and above , while clouds have just rolled back from the summit ridge .
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