Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] [adv] from the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer .
2 Well a a a at the time , they 'd just changed over from the erm Tenants ' Development Association , to the Tenants ' Action Group , so it was a bit disorganized to begin with , cos we were still sorting out the , everything from what they 'd left over and things , so , but once we 'd got that all so once they 'd got that all sorted out , yeah , it was .
3 The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners !
4 A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window …
5 personally , I 'd have thought that anyone who heard a gunshot round our manor would have just moved away from the window and kept his head down , but I 've got to accept that someone may have phoned .
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 the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’
8 I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped
9 I 've just come across from the factory ; it 's windy out . ’
10 A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time .
11 It was a programme about the ( then ) proposed orbital cities , and even boasted an interview with a very youthful Ewan Famber , who had just passed out from the Tech-Green High College weighed down with honours and acclamations .
12 ‘ O Jesus Christ , ’ he said , looking over my shoulder as if JC had just wandered in from the garden , ‘ did you die for this boy ? ’
13 And then she saw to her amazement that the man who had just climbed down from the cab was knocking on her door .
14 Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high .
15 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 .
16 ‘ These have just come through from the printers . ’
17 There is a dusting of snow in Cwm Glas Mawr and above , while clouds have just rolled back from the summit ridge .
18 They 'll probably be in all night and she 's just walked up from the bingo and toddle in there .
19 An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand .
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