Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A sentence such as John and his friend have just come back from New York can be used to illustrate an insertion task . |
| 5 | John and his friend have just come back from New York , you know . |
| 6 | John and his friend have just come back from New , you know , York |
| 7 | John and his , you know , friend have just come back from New York . |
| 8 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |
| 9 | my dad 's just got back from apparently Millie 's quite brown and my mum they 're not |