Example sentences of "[verb] just come [adv] 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 That 's the compound radius fingerboard for you , and having just come straight from playing a ‘ 62 reissue Strat , the Manson 's fingerboard around and above the octave felt virtually flat in comparison .
7 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 .
8 Apart from that , though , the whole crew might have just come in from Ellis Island Caduta herself was clearly the queen bee here .
9 I 've just come back from France .
10 They 're always looking forward to going places they 've just come back from , or regretting doing things they have n't yet done .
11 And camping We 've just come back from Cornwall and it was very wet .
12 ‘ 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 .
13 ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’
14 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 .
15 Tell them we 've just come back from that .
16 I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped
17 Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years .
18 I 've just come across from the factory ; it 's windy out . ’
19 Sometimes , you 've just come home from work and your feet are sore and your head aches , but then the music starts playing and away you go .
20 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 .
21 Ruth Atucehene , an immigrant from Ghana , said : ‘ I had just come home from church and I was in the house with my children . ’
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Lee had just come back from shopping .
25 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 .
26 Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him .
30 His stage set , along with the thumping music , flashing lights , and dry-ice clouds that go with it , had just come in from Scotland , and was due to head south as soon as we television camp-followers had done our reports in front of it .
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