Example sentences of "[noun sg] have just [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | This driver has just returned from France , after managing to get through the blockade . |
| 2 | Professor Jack Spence of Leicester university has just returned from a fact-finding tour of South Africa . |
| 3 | A delegation of lawyers from the British Romanian Law Association has just returned from a successful trip to Romania , having given seminars in two Romanian cities and met with representatives of the Romanian Bar Association . |
| 4 | We get caught out with long balls to where our defender has just come from . |
| 5 | Oh brilliant I think my gob 's just recovered from that . |
| 6 | Her father had just returned from the public house , and was at his most sensitive to the shame brought upon his noble name by Tess . |
| 7 | The two-car Pacer train had just emerged from a tunnel when it ploughed into 11 cows . |
| 8 | Robbie and the dog had just returned from their stroll and she was about to lock up and go below for the night when a sound from the towpath caught her attention . |
| 9 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that a delegation from the Inter-Parliamentary Union has just returned from Russia and the Ukraine ? |
| 10 | The speaker had just returned from a ‘ little-known place , in Southern Africa — Lesotho , or ‘ Basutoland , as it used to be called ’ . |
| 11 | Word had just come from Ottawa , he told me , confirming his suggestion that I be promoted to the post of Production Manager for the CBC , as from the end of the month . |
| 12 | The SoftPC version that gets up on the Mac will be the full Windows product that Insignia has just licensed from Microsoft , so that Windows and MS-DOS programs will be able to run legitimately on an IBM Corp chip-powered Mac . |
| 13 | Oag has just returned from Tokyo , and will set off for a climbing exhibition in Grenoble in a few days . |
| 14 | The Statue of Liberty had just arrived from Paris and was being assembled so it was not in New York harbour when they arrived . |
| 15 | The dominant factor , in relation to poor housing conditions , lack of proper sanitation , food shortages and growing unemployment , was the fact that the country had just emerged from the horrors of the First Great War . |
| 16 | Some of the Left had just defected from the ILP and had no desire to join with it again . |