Example sentences of "[vb past] recently [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a look about him , as if he 'd recently returned from the Front . |
| 2 | They were named as Col. Mangwane Khosana , Gqozo 's former right-hand man who had recently escaped from custody facing treason charges , and Lt.-Gen. |
| 3 | One company had recently moved from the centre of London and had curtailed its use of libraries . |
| 4 | Yet Grigori Medvedev , the chief engineer at Chernobyl in the 1970s , says in his recent book ( see page 125 ) that Soviet-made Geiger counters registered high levels of radiation on men who had not yet been into the zone , and nothing at all on those who had recently emerged from it . |
| 5 | She had recently emerged from a much-publicised divorce from Frank Sinatra and a month 's transcendental meditation with the guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India . |
| 6 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of April 16 reported that a number of Chinese provinces , including Jiangxi in the east , Hunan in the centre and Guangdong in the south , had recently suffered from serious floods . |
| 7 | Unknown to him Leopold had recently heard from another composer , Peter von Winter , who had crossed swords with Wolfgang in Mannheim , and was now maliciously taking his revenge . |
| 8 | I had recently heard from the Foreign Office that the Emperor had agreed to my undertaking this journey . |
| 9 | One evening Rachel invited her to dinner , to meet some old family friends who had recently retired from academia and moved to London . |
| 10 | Dr Kenneth Duncan was a biologist who had recently retired from the top management of the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 11 | He had recently travelled from Tasmania to Norway in search of the perfect 2,000 metres of flat water . |
| 12 | Dr Christine Henderson , the first such volunteer , had recently returned from Zimbabwe and described her experiences to the IC , providing graphic examples of the sort of problems that could encountered . |
| 13 | Audrey , 63 , widely known for roles in Roman Holiday and Breakfast At Tiffany 's , had recently returned from a tour of famine-hit Somalia , representing UN children 's fund UNICEF . |
| 14 | The kitchen was full of smoke , servants and Sara 's brothers , who had recently returned from a day 's hunting in the mountains and who were getting in everyone 's way by taking their boots off and leaving them to steam before the flames . |
| 15 | Mind you — - " she jerked her head in the direction of the Russell , which had recently returned from Plymouth and lay at anchor in the Pool , " 'E 's got a lot to answer for . |
| 16 | David Tindle had recently returned from a visit to Paris where he had seen this painting for the first time . |
| 17 | In 1961 an Institute of Latin America was established at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow , on the recommendation of Anastas Mikoian , who had recently returned from Cuba . |
| 18 | Legislative power was to be vested in a 50-member ( of which 25 would be elected ) High Council of the Republic , to include three former civilian presidents from the 1960s who had recently returned from exile — Hubert Maga , Justin Ahomadegbe and Emile Zinsou . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , reports on Sept. 20 said that a Harvard University medical team which had recently returned from Iraq had found that the number of child deaths due to malnutrition and disease had trebled since the imposition of sanctions . |
| 20 | An international team of academics which had recently returned from Iraq reported on Oct. 22 that the death rate of Iraqi children under five had almost quadrupled since the imposition of sanctions [ see also p. 38452 ] . |
| 21 | Indeed the Next Steps Report found that : ‘ People who had recently resigned from the Civil Service told us that frustration at the lack of genuine responsibility for achieving results was a significant factor in encouraging them to move to jobs outside . ’ |
| 22 | Both groups had claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on Antonio Rios , former president of the Confederation of Workers of Venezuela ( CTV ) and a leading member of the ruling Democratic Action ( AD ) party , who had recently resigned from his post to face trial on charges of influence peddling . |
| 23 | I did not venture to express my opinion , fearing that my taste might have become corrupted by my long residence in the Indies ; but since my companion had recently come from France , it was quite a relief to hear him say that he had seen nothing in Europe quite so bold and majestic . ’ |
| 24 | These patients were all members of a family of Kurdish refugees who had recently arrived from Turkey , not patients from the AIDS wards or clinic . |
| 25 | One participant was Mrs Pat Scanlan , who had recently recovered from an operation to remove a spinal disc and decided to take up swimming to strengthen her back . |