Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big one looked down at me as if I 'd just crawled out from under . |
| 2 | Well I c I I 've seen so many things over the year I just do n't believe it until I actually see it and th literally four weeks ago , I 'd just got back from Germany , went on a meeting the following morning and it 's that gentleman there , Steve , and h he 's got some pictures in his pocket which will prove exactly what we 're talking about . |
| 3 | That was er I 'd just got back from work . |
| 4 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
| 5 | I had just got up from my chair when the crash happened . |
| 6 | Now I was about to meet him again , it was as if I had suddenly woken up from a syrupy dream . |
| 7 | In fact , I 've just flown back from the States today , and you 'll be glad to hear that the doctors assured me that Liz and Owen are on the road to a full recovery . ’ |
| 8 | I 've just come back from France . |
| 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 back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
| 12 | I 've just driven down from Manchester and I 'm slightly knackered . |
| 13 | Then John Keane came along , the only artist I 've ever taken on from seeing slides . |
| 14 | ‘ I have just come back from lecturing in New York and I am off to lecture in Hong Kong . |
| 15 | ‘ I have just come back from talking to Alfred and I telephoned Maurice . ’ |
| 16 | May I remind him that the London Arts Board , which has just taken over from Greater London Arts , is settling down well to the work of funding arts associations throughout London . |
| 17 | Fewer requests for confirming analysis take place from the conceptual end , but a greater number are initiated through the scheming process which has gradually taken over from the conceptual phase as the main centre of the design work . |
| 18 | Stockholm : Sharp gains in Volvo and Ericsson shares dominated a moderate session in which prices generally fell back from early advances . |
| 19 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 20 | Also , the jets of material associated with them seem certainly to shoot out from the rotational poles and to keep travelling that way ; were new planets to engage in the game of cosmic billiards they would have to shoot out equatorially from their ‘ parents ’ . |
| 21 | I am not talking about that kind of quietness ; rather the loneliness of people who feel quite cut off from God , from others , from society . |
| 22 | What about Timo Metsola 's electronics outfit in Finland — where you 've just flown back from ? |
| 23 | ‘ You 've just got back from Rhodes , we hear . ’ |
| 24 | You know you th either come back and they 're embracing each other and cuddling and there 're a few tears and everything and er everything 's hunkydory and you start traipsing back in with all the bloody stuff you 've just brought out from beforehand you see . |
| 25 | Agnes had taken a smaller one ; she had just got back from her service 's registry . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea . |
| 29 | Her mother had stated then that it would probably not be necessary to move again , but she had always shied off from friendships — so many of them had been lost before . |
| 30 | It was a programme about the ( then ) proposed orbital cities , and even boasted an interview with a very youthful Ewan Famber , who had just passed out from the Tech-Green High College weighed down with honours and acclamations . |