Example sentences of "[verb] just come back " in BNC.
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| 1 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |
| 2 | ‘ He has just come back from Canada and he will go back to Canada . ’ |
| 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 | I 've just chap , one of my chaps has just come back off a three days , confined spaces , responsible person course . |
| 5 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 6 | I 've just come back from France . |
| 7 | I 've I 've just come back on that D two stop three . |
| 8 | They 're always looking forward to going places they 've just come back from , or regretting doing things they have n't yet done . |
| 9 | And camping We 've just come back from Cornwall and it was very wet . |
| 10 | CATHERINE Robbie , if you 've just come back here to give me a fright because of something that happened ages ago , you 're mad . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’ |
| 13 | We 've just come back from Chile , where chemical pollution , factory fishing , and poverty are the everyday reality facing fishermen , slowly destroying their ability to make a living and support their families . |
| 14 | Tell them we 've just come back from that . |
| 15 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
| 16 | Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years . |
| 17 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |
| 18 | No I 've just come back to it and I find my lunch box overflowing with crisp packets . |
| 19 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When she had finished she turned to Nara , who had just come back with the things she needed and was peering round the door , as if he was too scared of her magic to come right in . |
| 22 | Lee had just come back from shopping . |
| 23 | At last week-end 's ICA conference , the film generated a single comment , from a producer on Channel 4 's Out series , Claire Beavan , who had just come back from America where she was making a programme about Hollywood homophobia . |
| 24 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |
| 27 | ‘ I have just come back from lecturing in New York and I am off to lecture in Hong Kong . |
| 28 | ‘ I have just come back from talking to Alfred and I telephoned Maurice . ’ |
| 29 | A sentence such as John and his friend have just come back from New York can be used to illustrate an insertion task . |
| 30 | John and his friend have just come back from New York , you know . |