Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vern actually looked up from his last bite of bread roll as I came back in . |
| 2 | As soon as it 's over the phone rings ( they 've had a phone put in so that they can get bread and groceries delivered , and feel less cut off from doctors and fire services ) . |
| 3 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 4 | I am not talking about that kind of quietness ; rather the loneliness of people who feel quite cut off from God , from others , from society . |
| 5 | What about Timo Metsola 's electronics outfit in Finland — where you 've just flown back from ? |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | I 've just driven down from Manchester and I 'm slightly knackered . |
| 8 | I 've just come back from France . |
| 9 | They 're always looking forward to going places they 've just come back from , or regretting doing things they have n't yet done . |
| 10 | And camping We 've just come back from Cornwall and it was very wet . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’ |
| 13 | We 've just come back from Chile , where chemical pollution , factory fishing , and poverty are the everyday reality facing fishermen , slowly destroying their ability to make a living and support their families . |
| 14 | Tell them we 've just come back from that . |
| 15 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
| 16 | Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years . |
| 17 | A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time . |
| 18 | You know you th either come back and they 're embracing each other and cuddling and there 're a few tears and everything and er everything 's hunkydory and you start traipsing back in with all the bloody stuff you 've just brought out from beforehand you see . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've just got back from Southampton , ’ said my mother , as though this circumstance presented a total barrier to further movement . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've just got back from Rhodes , we hear . ’ |
| 21 | Well it , it 's been stupid this laid on this settee falling down back , it 's blinking ridiculous , yeah , we 've just got back from hospital and they 'll send her a letter for er , to make an appointment for her to go back , to see what the treatment they 're gon na give her , so , will it go in Pete 's car ? |
| 22 | Then John Keane came along , the only artist I 've ever taken on from seeing slides . |
| 23 | Crossman Block have wholly taken over from Lloyd & Co. and are now the sole solicitors instructed by the interim government . |
| 24 | Capercaillie in Scotland have already come back from near extinction once . |
| 25 | My local mountain rescue team needed a doctor and things have just moved on from there . |
| 26 | ‘ These have just come through from the printers . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I have just come back from lecturing in New York and I am off to lecture in Hong Kong . |
| 28 | ‘ I have just come back from talking to Alfred and I telephoned Maurice . ’ |
| 29 | A sentence such as John and his friend have just come back from New York can be used to illustrate an insertion task . |
| 30 | John and his friend have just come back from New York , you know . |