Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] have just [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of ornithologists has just returned from an expedition to an arid area in Mexico in which you are keenly interested . |
| 2 | As you went in to the head end where the roof bolts were still intact , it was hard to imagine that approximately forty six metre , fifty metre of gate had just come in one go . |
| 3 | The Secretary of State has just referred to the number of social workers . |
| 4 | On the issue that the Secretary of State has just discussed with the defence spokesman of the Ulster Unionist party , the hon. Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone ( Mr. Maginnis ) , while holding that it should be a weapon in the armoury of any civilised Government to take out of circulation those who are seeking to destroy , murder and maim , will he give a full assurance to the House that he will undertake that act , if he has to do so , as a British Minister responsible to this House , and not in cliques with the Dublin Government who say that they would need to approve such a move ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Some further details of the poem were clearly borrowed directly from West Somerset : the harbour from which the mariner set sail can only be the little harbour at Watchet , the hermit 's woodland home the wood at Culbone , and the ‘ loud bassoon ’ , whose sound caused the wedding-guest to beat his breast , probably had its original in the bassoon which the vicar of Stowey had just provided for the Stowey church band . |
| 7 | The Statue of Liberty had just arrived from Paris and was being assembled so it was not in New York harbour when they arrived . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Siome news in brief — the fatal accident inquiry into drug deaths in Glasgow has just ended with the sheriff telling the parents of the victim that while he understood their feelings of helplessness and grief , it was n't his function to hold the general inquiry into the misuse of drugs . |
| 10 | Sure , Paradox for Windows has just shipped to deafening applause . |
| 11 | Dominic Dromgoole , of the excellent Bush Theatre ; Julia Bardsley , co-director of the Leicester Haymarket , and Phyllida Lloyd , whose superb production of The Virtuoso at Stratford has just come to the Barbican , are just a few of the other names I could have included . |
| 12 | Les Stocker , the animal saviour from St Tiggywinkles Wildlife hospital at Haddenham has just returned from the islands after a fortnight 's hard work . |
| 13 | Coventry v Southampton Having just won at Liverpool for the first time , Coventry ought to be in the mood to take Southampton even though the latter have lost only once in a dozen games . |