Example sentences of "have just [been] [verb] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |
| 2 | From then on I 've just been going around from city to city causing trouble , more or less . |
| 3 | I 've just been driven back from Covent Garden and I want to get to bed . |
| 4 | It would er but as I 've already said the bed looked made er totally un-slept in it looked as though it had just been made up from new and un-slept in which is why I took that course of action . |
| 5 | When Professor Aldini applied galvanism to the face of a felon who had just been cut down from the gallows , |
| 6 | ( Alternatively , you could pretend that you have just been beamed down from outer space and that you do not understand a word that he is saying — which is at least partly true ! ) |