Example sentences of "[pers pn] have just [vb pp] from a " in BNC.
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1 | I was feel very proud of myself because I had just progressed from a tiny red tricycle to riding a huge yellow proper bicycle , with stabilizers . |
2 | I had just returned from a training stint in Lanzarote . |
3 | ‘ I 've just come from a session with Gladys Brown , a strange woman who has the room next to Meryl Armitage 's . |
4 | ‘ I 've just come from a crossroads called Quatre Bras , sir . |
5 | ‘ I 've just come from a meeting with Bobby Anscombe . |
6 | After 30 seconds or so , he stops and rubs his left hand across his face in the way I do when I 've just woken from a night 's sleep . |
7 | ‘ I have just returned from a holiday in Hungary with my six year old son and I feel I must write to thank you . |
8 | I have just returned from a visit to Bulgaria , and I thought your readers might like to see their spraying equipment . |
9 | I HAVE JUST RETURNED from a trip to Norway , a country I find like an exaggerated version of Scotland — bigger mountains , wider moorland , wilder scenery and more extreme temperatures . |
10 | Sir , I have just returned from a full week in Belgrade and would like to seek comment and clarification on the information and knowledge sanctions which are now being imposed on Serbia . |
11 | I HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlord , Mr Heathcliff . |
12 | I have just returned from a NATO meeting last week at which we agreed the military strategy that will accompany the strategic concept now agreed , of which Germany is a prominent supporter . |
13 | ‘ Not at all as if you 'd just dismounted from a horse . |
14 | How d " you always manage to look like you 've just escaped from a hair-pulling battle ? |
15 | Even when she had just fallen from a catwalk , Dana had a vivacity Claudia could n't match . |
16 | Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning . |
17 | Seeing the British soldiers , the startled men sat and ate though they had just risen from a complete meal . |
18 | When we meet they have just returned from a promotional stretch with Virgin in Los Angeles . |
19 | Particularly when he has just returned from a period of injury . |
20 | He had just escaped from a ship at Sharpness docks . |
21 | Apart from the sore cracks between most of his toes , the skin was heavily calloused and his heels were covered in blisters ( he had just returned from a particularly arduous walk ) . |
22 | He had just returned from a fresh session with the PM at Downing Street . |
23 | He had just returned from a visit in 1937 to the Government fighting front in Spain . |
24 | He looked as though he had just returned from a Chas'n Dave concert or tied up Hercules the horse in the Steptoe and Son barn . |
25 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |