Example sentences of "[verb] just [vb pp] [adv] from " in BNC.
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1 | The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here . |
2 | My first book was an experiment to see if I could write and it has just gone on from there . ’ |
3 | Parents : When they play into wrong hands What can you do if you take an instant dislike to the friend your daughter or son has just brought home from school ? |
4 | When I quip that he sounds as if he has just come round from anaesthetic , Eva says , ‘ He has . ’ |
5 | ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer . |
6 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |
7 | ‘ He has just come back from Canada and he will go back to Canada . ’ |
8 | 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 ’ . |
9 | Pierre Berton , who wrote the books , has just got back from Vancouver . |
10 | May I remind him that the London Arts Board , which has just taken over from Greater London Arts , is settling down well to the work of funding arts associations throughout London . |
11 | The big one looked down at me as if I 'd just crawled out from under . |
12 | Well a a a at the time , they 'd just changed over from the erm Tenants ' Development Association , to the Tenants ' Action Group , so it was a bit disorganized to begin with , cos we were still sorting out the , everything from what they 'd left over and things , so , but once we 'd got that all so once they 'd got that all sorted out , yeah , it was . |
13 | Well I c I I 've seen so many things over the year I just do n't believe it until I actually see it and th literally four weeks ago , I 'd just got back from Germany , went on a meeting the following morning and it 's that gentleman there , Steve , and h he 's got some pictures in his pocket which will prove exactly what we 're talking about . |
14 | That was er I 'd just got back from work . |
15 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
16 | The commodore , having just tacked in from Pin Mill , says that while he recognises the accomplishment of an ancient mariner there in teaching a grey parrot to recite the complete works of Shakespeare in Urdu , and could see that this might help international relations in some way , he is far from certain this was the sort of thing Mr Major had in mind . |
17 | A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window … |
18 | And so it was that on the first Monday after New Year , about midnight , we found ourselves on an icy road in County Cavan heading for the checkpoint , having just driven up from Dun Laoghaire , where we had disembarked from the Holyhead ferry . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | personally , I 'd have thought that anyone who heard a gunshot round our manor would have just moved away from the window and kept his head down , but I 've got to accept that someone may have phoned . |
22 | Apart from that , though , the whole crew might have just come in from Ellis Island Caduta herself was clearly the queen bee here . |
23 | What about Timo Metsola 's electronics outfit in Finland — where you 've just flown back from ? |
24 | In fact , I 've just flown back from the States today , and you 'll be glad to hear that the doctors assured me that Liz and Owen are on the road to a full recovery . ’ |
25 | I 've just driven down from Manchester and I 'm slightly knackered . |
26 | I 've just come back from France . |
27 | They 're always looking forward to going places they 've just come back from , or regretting doing things they have n't yet done . |
28 | And camping We 've just come back from Cornwall and it was very wet . |
29 | ‘ 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 . |
30 | ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’ |