Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] from a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | TEENAGE striker Stephen Perkins has just returned from a week 's trial at Stoke City and the Potters have expressed great interest . |
2 | Particularly when he has just returned from a period of injury . |
3 | That should guarantee Annadale maximum points in the 1,500 metres , as Lough , who has just returned from a training stint with the GB squad in New Mexico , clocked 3.40.2 … a personal best … at Loughborough on Wednesday night . |
4 | ‘ Not at all as if you 'd just dismounted from a horse . |
5 | It lasted only a year ( although there was no divorce until 1957 ) and some time after that Peter Lawford made the mistake of meeting Ava , who 'd just returned from a trip overseas , for a drink in a Hollywood restaurant . |
6 | I write this having just returned from a meeting in Frankfurt of the Council of the Federation of European Credit Management Associations ( FECMA ) . |
7 | ‘ I 've just come from a session with Gladys Brown , a strange woman who has the room next to Meryl Armitage 's . |
8 | ‘ I 've just come from a meeting with Bobby Anscombe . |
9 | ‘ I 've just come from a crossroads called Quatre Bras , sir . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | He had just escaped from a ship at Sharpness docks . |
12 | Even when she had just fallen from a catwalk , Dana had a vivacity Claudia could n't match . |
13 | PC Reid , a second RUC officer and a group of soldiers had just emerged from a field and were about to set up a roadblock on the Castleblaney Road on the outskirts of the town , when the shot rang out . |
14 | The two-car Pacer train had just emerged from a tunnel when it ploughed into 11 cows . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | He had just returned from a visit in 1937 to the Government fighting front in Spain . |
17 | Poor had just returned from a week in bed with flu when she was picked to test the trapeze . |
18 | I had just returned from a training stint in Lanzarote . |
19 | ‘ I have just returned from a holiday in Hungary with my six year old son and I feel I must write to thank you . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | I have just returned from a visit to Bulgaria , and I thought your readers might like to see their spraying equipment . |
22 | I HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlord , Mr Heathcliff . |
23 | Two of our ‘ boys ’ have just returned from a week there on a rugby tour . |
24 | You do n't look like a man who 's just escaped from a fire . ’ |