Example sentences of "[pers pn] have just [vb pp] back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That was er I 'd just got back from work . |
| 3 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | No I 've just come back to it and I find my lunch box overflowing with crisp packets . |
| 7 | I 've I 've just come back on that D two stop three . |
| 8 | I 've just come back from France . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
| 12 | I 've just got back to England . |
| 13 | ‘ I have just come back from lecturing in New York and I am off to lecture in Hong Kong . |
| 14 | ‘ I have just come back from talking to Alfred and I telephoned Maurice . ’ |
| 15 | Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) . |
| 16 | What about Timo Metsola 's electronics outfit in Finland — where you 've just flown back from ? |
| 17 | ‘ You 've just got back from Rhodes , we hear . ’ |
| 18 | Agnes had taken a smaller one ; she had just got back from her service 's registry . |
| 19 | Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea . |
| 20 | She promised to find out , and she 's just come back with the results . |
| 21 | And camping We 've just come back from Cornwall and it was very wet . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Tell them we 've just come back from that . |
| 24 | Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've just got back from Southampton , ’ said my mother , as though this circumstance presented a total barrier to further movement . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | Gail , who is also looking forward to the birth of her first baby in November , said : ‘ We have just come back from two wet weeks in Bournemouth and said we could do with spoiling ourselves with a stay in a luxury hotel then I was told I had won — it 's amazing. , ’ |
| 28 | But I think they 'd just gone back for the money creed and once you get that well erm they do n't realize that they could be falling into the trap unless we blokes stand firm now to maintain this standard of living . |
| 29 | They 're always looking forward to going places they 've just come back from , or regretting doing things they have n't yet done . |
| 30 | ‘ He has just come back from Canada and he will go back to Canada . ’ |