Example sentences of "he [verb] just [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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1 | He has just emerged from the studio after recording his third album ; there will be many musical surprises in store . |
2 | He has just emerged from four months of experimental treatment for skin cancer with assurances of remission . |
3 | Particularly when he has just returned from a period of injury . |
4 | I believe that he has just returned from his second visit to Nepal — a country with which this country has had good relations for about 175 years . |
5 | He has just returned from working as a photographer for six months on the Russian liner Karelya . |
6 | Mr Davies , 40 , who attended with his parents , Derek and Joan , said he has just returned from Bosnia , which the Queen said must be a dreadful place to work . |
7 | Clarke is now tournament professional at the K-Club , Straffan , County Kildare — he has just switched from the equally fashionable Mount Julliet , County Kilkenny — and manager Andrew Chandler believes a European victory is definitely on the cards for Ulster 's emerging star . |
8 | I respect them , especially so as he has just come from South Africa . |
9 | He has just come from outdoors : his moustache is cold , and damp with dew . |
10 | I do n't suppose old Pope Leo the Tenth sat around gazing at the latest thing he 'd just commissioned from Michelangelo , for instance . |
11 | There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning . |
12 | It was next morning that Hazlitt came down to breakfast to find Coleridge with a letter he had just received from the Wedgwoods . |
13 | The Exec Director gave the DDA a number that he had just received from his bureau chief in London . |
14 | He had just turned from the window , intent on leaving , when the woman walked back into the room . |
15 | He had just escaped from a ship at Sharpness docks . |
16 | 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 ) . |
17 | Nominated by his dying brother as Lord High Protector of the realm during the boy king 's minority , he had just returned from Scotland where , at the head of a powerful army , he had re-taken Berwick in his brother 's name and thus nullified the Scottish King 's threat of a full-scale invasion . |
18 | He had just returned from a fresh session with the PM at Downing Street . |
19 | He had just returned from a visit in 1937 to the Government fighting front in Spain . |
20 | His name was Mason , and he had just returned from the West Indies , where Mr Rochester had once lived . |
21 | He had just returned from addressing the UN General Assembly in New York where he had given an assurance that democracy was now firmly rooted in Haiti . |
22 | He looked as though he had just returned from a Chas'n Dave concert or tied up Hercules the horse in the Steptoe and Son barn . |
23 | When I spoke with him yesterday he had just returned from the funeral of his father-in-law , who had died after months of cancer . |
24 | Also for most of the time at this period in their affair Boy was either slightly drugged , or drunk , or exhausted ; and he was in a permanent state of sexual tension , for either he had just come from O's bed or he was on his way to it . |
25 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
26 | He said he had just driven from Ladgate Lane when the man suddenly appeared in front of him . |
27 | Quickly he told Dalziel what he had just learned from Antony and of the train of thought this had started in his mind . |
28 | Morse held up the photograph of Theodore Kemp which he had just removed from the living room . |
29 | ‘ He 's just phoned from the car to say that as far as he could tell Harry had nothing to do with it . |
30 | In the other , the sort he 's just woken from , he becomes an eyewitness to terrible events he 's seen on TV . |