Example sentences of "just come " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've just come back from France . |
| 2 | ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity . |
| 3 | ‘ We are not against pay rises , but people have got to sensible , ’ he said , defending the three per cent ceiling on pay rises which has just come into force here . |
| 4 | Peter has just come from California to make ‘ a film of English life ’ which will involve the reconstruction of an English residence in Hollywood . |
| 5 | Burden had just come in , damp and disgruntled , when Wexford erupted bull-like from the lift . |
| 6 | I respect them , especially so as he has just come from South Africa . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've just come from down there , have n't I ? |
| 8 | The street lights had just come on , a little premature , and where they stood close to any of the orphan-like trees their electric brightness was captured in the mesh of dusty leaves , giving the street an elegance it had otherwise long since lost . |
| 9 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 10 | I 've just come to realise : this is my life , I do n't know how long I 've got , I might as well enjoy that time being me , because I 'm stuck with this body , this face , this skin colour ; I have to make the most of it . |
| 11 | Unfortunately for our timing one of the hosts suddenly said , ‘ I 'm sure you do n't want any coffee , Prime Minister , you 've just come off the plane . |
| 12 | ‘ Ma'am , I have just come from the market . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Paul Langford 's ‘ A Polite and Commercial People , England 1727–83 ’ has just come out in paperback ( Oxford , £10.95 ) . |
| 15 | Dominic Dromgoole , of the excellent Bush Theatre ; Julia Bardsley , co-director of the Leicester Haymarket , and Phyllida Lloyd , whose superb production of The Virtuoso at Stratford has just come to the Barbican , are just a few of the other names I could have included . |
| 16 | The bouncy Miss Routledge , whose run in Bennett 's Talking Heads has just come to a close , explained : ‘ Alan just selects someone , writes the piece and posts it through the letterbox . |
| 17 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 18 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |
| 19 | The last letter , bearing the date of 8 June , read : ‘ My heart is very full this evening — a letter from you has just come in , and that brings you even closer to me . |
| 20 | An up excursion train hauled by J39 64872 on its way out of Sheffield near Woodburn Junction passes B1 61152 which has just come off Darnall sheds in about 1950 . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've just come from the kinema . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've just come from identifying my sister in the temporary mortuary . |
| 23 | He 's like a dictator who 's just come to power and does all the awful violent things at once , like changing the laws and murdering people and confiscating everything — then later on it 'll all be taken for granted and he can play at being kind and good . ’ |
| 24 | It 's just come to my attention that he might have corresponded with Christabel LaMotte . |
| 25 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 26 | Also for most of the time at this period in their affair Boy was either slightly drugged , or drunk , or exhausted ; and he was in a permanent state of sexual tension , for either he had just come from O's bed or he was on his way to it . |
| 27 | The puppy was probably encouraged to jump up when he was small and everyone thought it was quite fun , but now he is large , and has probably just come in from a swim in the pool and Aunty is standing there in her Sunday best . |
| 28 | Pronethalol had only just come into clinical use when it was found to produce tumours in mice . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've just come from Harold 's . |
| 30 | One 's just come out of prison . |