Example sentences of "[pers pn] have just [vb pp] [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 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 . ’
7 I 've just come back from France .
8 ‘ 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 .
9 I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’
10 I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped
11 I 've just driven down from Manchester and I 'm slightly knackered .
12 I have just come back from lecturing in New York and I am off to lecture in Hong Kong .
13 I have just come back from talking to Alfred and I telephoned Maurice . ’
14 What about Timo Metsola 's electronics outfit in Finland — where you 've just flown back from ?
15 You 've just got back from Rhodes , we hear . ’
16 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 .
17 Agnes had taken a smaller one ; she had just got back from her service 's registry .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea .
21 She 's just moved up from Kent and has come with packing cases full of cups and medals : a winning record which was topped this week with the Champion of Champions trophy and an ambition to become the world 's number one .
22 They 'll probably be in all night and she 's just walked up from the bingo and toddle in there .
23 ‘ There y'ar , Sergeant Joe , ’ beamed Mrs Beavis , ‘ this young lady 's our new lodger , she 's just took the front room , she 's just come over from France .
24 And camping We 've just come back from Cornwall and it was very wet .
25 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 .
26 Tell them we 've just come back from that .
27 Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years .
28 We 've just got back from Southampton , ’ said my mother , as though this circumstance presented a total barrier to further movement .
29 Well it , it 's been stupid this laid on this settee falling down back , it 's blinking ridiculous , yeah , we 've just got back from hospital and they 'll send her a letter for er , to make an appointment for her to go back , to see what the treatment they 're gon na give her , so , will it go in Pete 's car ?
30 ‘ I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn .
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