Example sentences of "had just [vb pp] from [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing the British soldiers , the startled men sat and ate though they had just risen from a complete meal . |
| 2 | I was feel very proud of myself because I had just progressed from a tiny red tricycle to riding a huge yellow proper bicycle , with stabilizers . |
| 3 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 4 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 5 | He was only twenty-six and had just recovered from a slipped disc . |
| 6 | They were country people in a sense that Melanie was not , although she had just come from the green fields and they might have lived in London all their lives . |
| 7 | He had just returned from a fresh session with the PM at Downing Street . |
| 8 | He and Diana had just returned from an exhausting tour of America , plugging Britain and British industry at every turn . |
| 9 | Jakki had just returned from an idyllic holiday in America ( more of which in a moment ) when she was told to get back on a plane because the Material girl had finally agreed to give an interview on Radio One . |
| 10 | It was interesting that Fishwick Mona had just returned from the Great Yorkshire Show where she had stood third in a strong yearling heifer class . |
| 11 | Her father had just returned from the public house , and was at his most sensitive to the shame brought upon his noble name by Tess . |