Example sentences of "[pron] have recently [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had recently heard from the Foreign Office that the Emperor had agreed to my undertaking this journey . |
| 2 | I am concerned that I have recently received from the National Westminster Bank an invoice for £10.58 which they have debited from the Parish Council account for ‘ Audit Certificate Fee ’ , apparently on your instructions . |
| 3 | ‘ My wife and I have recently returned from a ten day holiday in Gdynia , Poland . |
| 4 | ‘ My husband and I have recently returned from our holiday in Czechoslovakia and felt I must write to say how much we enjoyed it . |
| 5 | I have recently returned from the tropical rainforests of South East Asia where the almost negligible cutting down of trees by ‘ native peoples ’ caused no real destruction over millions of years . |
| 6 | I HAVE recently returned from a trip to Italy where I visited the grave of my uncle , Harry Simms , at Bari War Cemetery . |
| 7 | A NASA research team which has recently returned from the Arctic observed a similar pattern of events and is extremely concerned that a second ‘ hole ’ may appear over the Arctic . |
| 8 | Mind you — - " she jerked her head in the direction of the Russell , which had recently returned from Plymouth and lay at anchor in the Pool , " 'E 's got a lot to answer for . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , reports on Sept. 20 said that a Harvard University medical team which had recently returned from Iraq had found that the number of child deaths due to malnutrition and disease had trebled since the imposition of sanctions . |
| 10 | An international team of academics which had recently returned from Iraq reported on Oct. 22 that the death rate of Iraqi children under five had almost quadrupled since the imposition of sanctions [ see also p. 38452 ] . |
| 11 | He wrote a short book entitled What Happened in Burma , described on the cover as ‘ the frank revelations of a young Burmese revolutionary leader who has recently escaped from Burma to India ’ . |
| 12 | Eleanor Driscoll , a working-class housewife who has recently moved from a two-room slum into a local authority house , puts it like this : |
| 13 | Robert Hanson , who has recently returned from working in Hong Kong , to join his father 's firm . |
| 14 | J.R. Chan , the Managing Director of Sakata UK , who has recently arrived from Japan , made a press statement in which he said : ‘ The introduction of an automated robot-operated assembly line will eliminate this fault and , meanwhile , we are considering a recall of all the new Glory models . |
| 15 | She has recently returned from a journey in Romania to see the conditions of at least 1,000 children under the age of one , who had contracted AIDS through injections with dirty needles or contaminated blood . |
| 16 | She had recently emerged from a much-publicised divorce from Frank Sinatra and a month 's transcendental meditation with the guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India . |
| 17 | One evening Rachel invited her to dinner , to meet some old family friends who had recently retired from academia and moved to London . |
| 18 | Dr Kenneth Duncan was a biologist who had recently retired from the top management of the National Radiological Protection Board . |
| 19 | They were named as Col. Mangwane Khosana , Gqozo 's former right-hand man who had recently escaped from custody facing treason charges , and Lt.-Gen. |
| 20 | Yet Grigori Medvedev , the chief engineer at Chernobyl in the 1970s , says in his recent book ( see page 125 ) that Soviet-made Geiger counters registered high levels of radiation on men who had not yet been into the zone , and nothing at all on those who had recently emerged from it . |
| 21 | The kitchen was full of smoke , servants and Sara 's brothers , who had recently returned from a day 's hunting in the mountains and who were getting in everyone 's way by taking their boots off and leaving them to steam before the flames . |
| 22 | In 1961 an Institute of Latin America was established at the Academy of Sciences in Moscow , on the recommendation of Anastas Mikoian , who had recently returned from Cuba . |
| 23 | Legislative power was to be vested in a 50-member ( of which 25 would be elected ) High Council of the Republic , to include three former civilian presidents from the 1960s who had recently returned from exile — Hubert Maga , Justin Ahomadegbe and Emile Zinsou . |
| 24 | Indeed the Next Steps Report found that : ‘ People who had recently resigned from the Civil Service told us that frustration at the lack of genuine responsibility for achieving results was a significant factor in encouraging them to move to jobs outside . ’ |
| 25 | Both groups had claimed responsibility for an assassination attempt on Antonio Rios , former president of the Confederation of Workers of Venezuela ( CTV ) and a leading member of the ruling Democratic Action ( AD ) party , who had recently resigned from his post to face trial on charges of influence peddling . |
| 26 | One participant was Mrs Pat Scanlan , who had recently recovered from an operation to remove a spinal disc and decided to take up swimming to strengthen her back . |
| 27 | These patients were all members of a family of Kurdish refugees who had recently arrived from Turkey , not patients from the AIDS wards or clinic . |
| 28 | The excuse for this trip was to visit Val 's brother and his family , who have recently moved from Regina in the middle of the prairies , to these more temperate and scenically more exciting shores . |
| 29 | If you have recently changed from a 16-bit computer ( something like an Atari ST or an Amiga ) to a PC , you will have suddenly found yourself face to face with DOS ( Disk Operating System ) , and this will most probably be Microsoft 's DOS 5 ( MS-DOS 5 ) . |
| 30 | The solitary electric-bulb is burning , for we have recently emerged from the ‘ gas-mantle ’ age . |