Example sentences of "just returned from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sergeant Bramble had just returned from the Manor House upon his bicycle . |
| 2 | Then there was the question of the paternity of Mrs Clancy 's last child : Mr Clancy had only just returned from Egypt after a two-year posting , and — as Peony had pointed out — the child was only 14 months old . |
| 3 | In 1987 I worked with a chief inspector who had just returned from university having read for a Bramshill scholarship in what he called ‘ black letter law ’ . |
| 4 | The Israeli Foreign Minister , Moshe Arens , of Likud , who had just returned from America , detailed the proposal of the US Secretary of State , James Baker , for three-way consultations on the composition of the Palestinian delegation . |
| 5 | Sir : I have just returned from five weeks in Zimbabwe , mostly at village level , and your leading article ( 6 October ) was right . |
| 6 | A sample : We 're coming in to land at Speke My legs are feeling very weak We 've just returned from Barcelona And now I 'm going for a sauna Toshack is of Scottish descent , and there is certainly a bit of McGonagall in there , though not the best bit . |
| 7 | While Jackson , who had just returned from filming a television clip , was mildly bemoaning the pressure it had placed on him to be ‘ incredibly entertaining for one minute ’ , his press officer was engaged in ordering him a beer from room service . |
| 8 | Tony had just returned from Iceland , his epic cycle tour , and I was back from Switzerland , buoyed up by time spent working at the Research Station on the Jungfraujoch . |
| 9 | A third has just returned from an overnight trip to Otterbur in the north-east of England Where it has been helping to move personnel and matériel around the ranges . |
| 10 | He and Diana had just returned from an exhausting tour of America , plugging Britain and British industry at every turn . |
| 11 | Jakki had just returned from an idyllic holiday in America ( more of which in a moment ) when she was told to get back on a plane because the Material girl had finally agreed to give an interview on Radio One . |
| 12 | Going straight from state ownership to worker ownership is unlikely to change the company 's culture or management style , believes Mr Laurie Brennan , chief executive of New Bridge Consultants , an arm of the law firm , Clifford Chance , set up to promote employee share ownership , and who has just returned from Poland . |
| 13 | Joe had written to me suggesting that there was a post for me in Japan ( available through the good offices of Stephen Spender , who had just returned from there with a commission from the Dean of the Faculty of Letters at Tohoku University ) to go and teach English , in the poet-teacher tradition for which it was famous . |
| 14 | He regularly visits eastern Europe and has just returned from Czechoslovakia . |
| 15 | It was interesting that Fishwick Mona had just returned from the Great Yorkshire Show where she had stood third in a strong yearling heifer class . |
| 16 | I 've just returned from this year 's Prix de Lausanne and the two Russian boys who entered were kicked out . |
| 17 | Having just returned from America where I drove a Jeep for about 70,000 miles on Goodyear Wranglers ( standard fit by Solihull to the Discovery ) , I was singularly unimpressed by them . |
| 18 | Maggie asked Ethel who 'd just returned from the top level . |
| 19 | Mr Farraday will usually have just returned from his short walk on the downs at that point , so he is rarely engrossed in his reading or writing as he tends to be in the evenings . |
| 20 | Apart from the sore cracks between most of his toes , the skin was heavily calloused and his heels were covered in blisters ( he had just returned from a particularly arduous walk ) . |
| 21 | The last week in August 1939 saw the 1st Bucks Battalion , still members of the 145th Infantry Brigade and part of the 48th Division , just returned from the annual camp at Lavant , near Chichester . |
| 22 | I had just returned from a training stint in Lanzarote . |
| 23 | Having just returned from this delightful island where the people are so friendly and courteous and where the cost of living is much less than in the UK , I thought the following information could be helpful . |
| 24 | I 've just returned from South Africa , during which he went to stay with Sally Newcombe and refused to eat anything for a week and a half ’ . |
| 25 | No details of any other claims by 261 Squadron pilots are available , but their opponents are believed to have been aircraft on the 23° Gruppo C.T. , which had just returned from Libya . |
| 26 | ‘ We have just returned from Zakopane and we would like to express our delight in all aspects of the holiday . |
| 27 | ‘ I have just returned from a holiday in Hungary with my six year old son and I feel I must write to thank you . |
| 28 | When we meet they have just returned from a promotional stretch with Virgin in Los Angeles . |
| 29 | I have just returned from a visit to Bulgaria , and I thought your readers might like to see their spraying equipment . |
| 30 | Having just returned from Scotland 's weekend squad sessions at St. Andrews , two tough dollops of over three hours each , he was feeling the effects , but clearly revels in his involvement : ‘ National sessions are at a higher intensity than those at club and district level in that you are working with very good and experienced players but it is just so enjoyable setting hard challenges whilst you are learning so much from players who have been through it all so often before ’ . |