Example sentences of "[noun] have just [vb pp] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 've just chap , one of my chaps has just come back off a three days , confined spaces , responsible person course . |
| 3 | Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen . |
| 4 | The educated classes had just stood back as the aspiring politician and the over-eager Methodist forced the showmen into a reliance on the melodramatic and the romantic . |
| 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 | Lee had just come back from shopping . |
| 7 | The three other members of the crew had just come back to the pump — we were doing " series pumping " — they had brought me a bottle of beer and I was taking a swig . |
| 8 | A sentence such as John and his friend have just come back from New York can be used to illustrate an insertion task . |
| 9 | John and his friend have just come back from New York , you know . |
| 10 | John and his friend have just come back from New , you know , York |
| 11 | John and his , you know , friend have just come back from New York . |
| 12 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |
| 13 | modern rhythmic gymnastics was created by the Russians … our top girls have just come back from special coaching over there … it showed in the championships … the best yet and the the closest with Alitia Sands of Coventry winning by point nort five of a point |
| 14 | Sandra had just arrived back in time to hear Mrs Foster 's grim assessment of the situation . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | my dad 's just got back from apparently Millie 's quite brown and my mum they 're not |
| 17 | There is a dusting of snow in Cwm Glas Mawr and above , while clouds have just rolled back from the summit ridge . |