Example sentences of "[pron] have just come [adv] from " in BNC.

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1 Ruth Atucehene , an immigrant from Ghana , said : ‘ I had just come home from church and I was in the house with my children . ’
2 I 've just come back from France .
3 ‘ 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 .
4 I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’
5 I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped
6 I 've just come across from the factory ; it 's windy out . ’
7 I have just come back from lecturing in New York and I am off to lecture in Hong Kong .
8 I have just come back from talking to Alfred and I telephoned Maurice . ’
9 Don Mini turned to one of the robins which had just come back from a practice flight with a child Minpin on its back .
10 Sometimes , you 've just come home from work and your feet are sore and your head aches , but then the music starts playing and away you go .
11 It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him .
12 She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk .
13 ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity .
14 At last week-end 's ICA conference , the film generated a single comment , from a producer on Channel 4 's Out series , Claire Beavan , who had just come back from America where she was making a programme about Hollywood homophobia .
15 Imagine that you have just come home from your hard day being an Environmental Health Officer , and your neighbour , who happens to be a builder or bookmaker or something , invites you down to the pub , and over a pint he says , ‘ I heard something on the radio about some story .
16 ‘ There y'ar , Sergeant Joe , ’ beamed Mrs Beavis , ‘ this young lady 's our new lodger , she 's just took the front room , she 's just come over from France .
17 Oh , she thinks she 's just come home from
18 An Oxford aid worker who 's just come back from the Croatian capital Zagreb , says the situation there is getting out of hand .
19 And camping We 've just come back from Cornwall and it was very wet .
20 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 .
21 Tell them we 've just come back from that .
22 Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years .
23 Gail , who is also looking forward to the birth of her first baby in November , said : ‘ We have just come back from two wet weeks in Bournemouth and said we could do with spoiling ourselves with a stay in a luxury hotel then I was told I had won — it 's amazing. , ’
24 They 're always looking forward to going places they 've just come back from , or regretting doing things they have n't yet done .
25 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 .
26 When I quip that he sounds as if he has just come round from anaesthetic , Eva says , ‘ He has . ’
27 He has just come back from Canada and he will go back to Canada . ’
28 Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high .
29 He 's just come back from holiday , and starts school today . ’
30 He 's just come back from Australia
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