Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | If you 'd just rung from Bryn 's place I could have at least made myself presentable , cariad ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But you 've just driven from Paris ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Back to our lead story , and we 've just heard from Paris that |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ We have just returned from Zakopane and we would like to express our delight in all aspects of the holiday . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I respect them , especially so as he has just come from South Africa . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He said he had just driven from Ladgate Lane when the man suddenly appeared in front of him . |
| 18 | Quickly he told Dalziel what he had just learned from Antony and of the train of thought this had started in his mind . |
| 19 | Today he 's just come from Potter 's office . |