Example sentences of "[pron] have just [vb pp] from [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've always thought it unlikely , but I 've just heard from George this morning that it is impossible . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I 've just heard from Channing , and his men have drawn a total blank in the village . |
| 3 | I 've just returned from South Africa , during which he went to stay with Sally Newcombe and refused to eat anything for a week and a half ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've just come from Harold 's . |
| 5 | I have just received from Anne Jessel the 25 splendid custom picks , printed with my name and my own slogan . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | No details of any other claims by 261 Squadron pilots are available , but their opponents are believed to have been aircraft on the 23° Gruppo C.T. , which had just returned from Libya . |
| 8 | A relief worker from one of the region 's charities who has just returned from Somalia says the appalling suffering of women and children will remain etched on his mind for ever . |
| 9 | Going straight from state ownership to worker ownership is unlikely to change the company 's culture or management style , believes Mr Laurie Brennan , chief executive of New Bridge Consultants , an arm of the law firm , Clifford Chance , set up to promote employee share ownership , and who has just returned from Poland . |
| 10 | If you 'd just rung from Bryn 's place I could have at least made myself presentable , cariad ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But you 've just driven from Paris ! |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For the first time I met Jeremy 's father , who had just arrived from America , and together we went in to see the body . |
| 14 | Next morning while we were loading , Omar brought a young but responsible-looking man over to me who had just arrived from Asba Tafari . |
| 15 | I spoke to as many reinforcements as I possibly could , especially those who had just arrived from Achnacarry . |
| 16 | All the usual social suspects were there , including Princess Firyal of Jordan , who had just returned from Acapulco where she visited Ricky and Sandra di Portanova in their permanent tent . |
| 17 | The Israeli Foreign Minister , Moshe Arens , of Likud , who had just returned from America , detailed the proposal of the US Secretary of State , James Baker , for three-way consultations on the composition of the Palestinian delegation . |
| 18 | We could n't talk because I believe he badly wanted to telephone someone who had just returned from China , so it was just a handshake really . |
| 19 | Claire Hughes , 25 , who had just returned from Australia for a family Christmas , was trapped with Robert , 26 , and widowed mum Kitty , 60 . |
| 20 | Back to our lead story , and we 've just heard from Paris that |
| 21 | A sample : We 're coming in to land at Speke My legs are feeling very weak We 've just returned from Barcelona And now I 'm going for a sauna Toshack is of Scottish descent , and there is certainly a bit of McGonagall in there , though not the best bit . |
| 22 | ‘ We have just returned from Zakopane and we would like to express our delight in all aspects of the holiday . |
| 23 | Mr Davies , 40 , who attended with his parents , Derek and Joan , said he has just returned from Bosnia , which the Queen said must be a dreadful place to work . |
| 24 | I respect them , especially so as he has just come from South Africa . |
| 25 | I do n't suppose old Pope Leo the Tenth sat around gazing at the latest thing he 'd just commissioned from Michelangelo , for instance . |
| 26 | Nominated by his dying brother as Lord High Protector of the realm during the boy king 's minority , he had just returned from Scotland where , at the head of a powerful army , he had re-taken Berwick in his brother 's name and thus nullified the Scottish King 's threat of a full-scale invasion . |
| 27 | He said he had just driven from Ladgate Lane when the man suddenly appeared in front of him . |
| 28 | Quickly he told Dalziel what he had just learned from Antony and of the train of thought this had started in his mind . |
| 29 | Today he 's just come from Potter 's office . |