Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] [adv prt] from [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here .
2 One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping .
3 ‘ He has just come back from Canada and he will go back to Canada . ’
4 Pierre Berton , who wrote the books , has just got back from Vancouver .
5 May I remind him that the London Arts Board , which has just taken over from Greater London Arts , is settling down well to the work of funding arts associations throughout London .
6 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 .
7 But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that .
8 Apart from that , though , the whole crew might have just come in from Ellis Island Caduta herself was clearly the queen bee here .
9 I 've just driven down from Manchester and I 'm slightly knackered .
10 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 .
11 I 've just come back from France .
12 Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years .
13 And camping We 've just come back from Cornwall and it was very wet .
14 ‘ You 've just got back from Rhodes , we hear . ’
15 ‘ We 've just got back from Southampton , ’ said my mother , as though this circumstance presented a total barrier to further movement .
16 ‘ I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn .
17 Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea .
18 In 1911 he returned to railway service as personal assistant to ( Sir ) H. Nigel Gresley [ q.v. ] , who had just taken over from Ivatt on the Great Northern railway .
19 At last week-end 's ICA conference , the film generated a single comment , from a producer on Channel 4 's Out series , Claire Beavan , who had just come back from America where she was making a programme about Hollywood homophobia .
20 Tremayne made more than his usual fuss over Fiona , sensing some sort of turmoil , telling her comfortably that Mackie had just come back from Ascot races where he 'd sent a runner for the apprentice race which had proved a total waste of time .
21 His stage set , along with the thumping music , flashing lights , and dry-ice clouds that go with it , had just come in from Scotland , and was due to head south as soon as we television camp-followers had done our reports in front of it .
22 A sentence such as John and his friend have just come back from New York can be used to illustrate an insertion task .
23 John and his friend have just come back from New York , you know .
24 John and his , you know , friend have just come back from New York .
25 She 's just moved up from Kent and has come with packing cases full of cups and medals : a winning record which was topped this week with the Champion of Champions trophy and an ambition to become the world 's number one .
26 He 's just ridden in from London , and his lady 's here to meet him .
27 ‘ There y'ar , Sergeant Joe , ’ beamed Mrs Beavis , ‘ this young lady 's our new lodger , she 's just took the front room , she 's just come over from France .
28 He 's just come back from Australia
29 No he 's just come back from Tunisia on holiday so he 'll need it .
30 He 's just come back from Belize erm , and he 's they 're , they 're posted to Germany and they leave tomorrow .
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