Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particularly when he has just returned from a period of injury . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That should guarantee Annadale maximum points in the 1,500 metres , as Lough , who has just returned from a training stint with the GB squad in New Mexico , clocked 3.40.2 … a personal best … at Loughborough on Wednesday night . |
| 4 | Walker , who has just returned from a two-week fact finding mission , is now preparing a detailed report for the Latvian authorities . |
| 5 | TEENAGE striker Stephen Perkins has just returned from a week 's trial at Stoke City and the Potters have expressed great interest . |
| 6 | Professor Jack Spence of Leicester university has just returned from a fact-finding tour of South Africa . |
| 7 | ‘ Not at all as if you 'd just dismounted from a horse . |
| 8 | It lasted only a year ( although there was no divorce until 1957 ) and some time after that Peter Lawford made the mistake of meeting Ava , who 'd just returned from a trip overseas , for a drink in a Hollywood restaurant . |
| 9 | I got the news of the fall of Shatila in London , having just returned from a fund-raising trip in the Gulf countries . |
| 10 | I write this having just returned from a meeting in Frankfurt of the Council of the Federation of European Credit Management Associations ( FECMA ) . |
| 11 | How d " you always manage to look like you 've just escaped from a hair-pulling battle ? |
| 12 | ‘ I 've just come from a session with Gladys Brown , a strange woman who has the room next to Meryl Armitage 's . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've just come from a crossroads called Quatre Bras , sir . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've just come from a meeting with Bobby Anscombe . |
| 15 | After 30 seconds or so , he stops and rubs his left hand across his face in the way I do when I 've just woken from a night 's sleep . |
| 16 | Seeing the British soldiers , the startled men sat and ate though they had just risen from a complete meal . |
| 17 | He had just escaped from a ship at Sharpness docks . |
| 18 | Even when she had just fallen from a catwalk , Dana had a vivacity Claudia could n't match . |
| 19 | I was feel very proud of myself because I had just progressed from a tiny red tricycle to riding a huge yellow proper bicycle , with stabilizers . |
| 20 | The two-car Pacer train had just emerged from a tunnel when it ploughed into 11 cows . |
| 21 | PC Reid , a second RUC officer and a group of soldiers had just emerged from a field and were about to set up a roadblock on the Castleblaney Road on the outskirts of the town , when the shot rang out . |
| 22 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 23 | He was only twenty-six and had just recovered from a slipped disc . |
| 24 | Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | I had just returned from a training stint in Lanzarote . |
| 27 | He had just returned from a fresh session with the PM at Downing Street . |
| 28 | He had just returned from a visit in 1937 to the Government fighting front in Spain . |
| 29 | The speaker had just returned from a ‘ little-known place , in Southern Africa — Lesotho , or ‘ Basutoland , as it used to be called ’ . |
| 30 | Poor had just returned from a week in bed with flu when she was picked to test the trapeze . |