Example sentences of "[vb -s] just [vb pp] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) . |
| 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 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 5 | I 've just chap , one of my chaps has just come back off a three days , confined spaces , responsible person course . |
| 6 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 7 | Pierre Berton , who wrote the books , has just got back from Vancouver . |
| 8 | He travels with camels and has just got back . |
| 9 | The important one for us has just reported back . |
| 10 | John 's there with his mate Paul , who 's just got back from work . |
| 11 | my dad 's just got back from apparently Millie 's quite brown and my mum they 're not |
| 12 | He 's just come back from holiday , and starts school today . ’ |
| 13 | He 's just come back from Australia |
| 14 | She promised to find out , and she 's just come back with the results . |
| 15 | An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand . |
| 16 | I 'll er for years she 's just come back and she 's I said I want . |
| 17 | No he 's just come back from Tunisia on holiday so he 'll need it . |
| 18 | He 's just come back from Belize erm , and he 's they 're , they 're posted to Germany and they leave tomorrow . |