Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] come [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I quip that he sounds as if he has just come round from anaesthetic , Eva says , ‘ He has . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
| 3 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |
| 4 | ‘ He has just come back from Canada and he will go back to Canada . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Sorry , the ghost has n't come over from the other side of the door , it just keeps moving by itself . |
| 7 | I 'm afraid Mr Steen has n't come up from the country . ’ |
| 8 | Keegan said : ‘ Obviously there may be some truth in it , but it has n't come out from this end . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Apart from that , though , the whole crew might have just come in from Ellis Island Caduta herself was clearly the queen bee here . |
| 11 | Among those I met or saw were the Begum Aga Khan , who was with her very attractive daughter Princess Zahra Aga Khan ; the Director General of the British Equestrian Foundation Major Malcolm Wallace , two of our top Event riders Miss Karen Straker and Mrs Jane Thelwall ; and Mr Andrew Dixon , who had all come over from England with the Hermès party ; Mr Peter Laing , the Hon. |
| 12 | But no , she could not ride tomorrow , her boots had not come back from the shoemaker 's . |
| 13 | Edward had not come back from the construction firm at David with anything saved up , but then , she had hardly expected him to . |
| 14 | The Warbutt had not come down from his tower to wish his son farewell , and Bicker was grim and silent with his cloak held up around his mouth and ice crystals forming on it where his breath froze . |
| 15 | I 've just come back from France . |
| 16 | They 're always looking forward to going places they 've just come back from , or regretting doing things they have n't yet done . |
| 17 | And camping We 've just come back from Cornwall and it was very wet . |
| 18 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Tell them we 've just come back from that . |
| 22 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
| 23 | Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years . |
| 24 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Lee had just come back from shopping . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back . |
| 30 | By the time he had taken her back to the theatre she felt totally removed from the morning , quite calm , controlled , almost as though she was nothing to do with the Hochhauser Season but had just come back from a week in Vienna staying at a luxury hotel . |