Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] from [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SoftPC version that gets up on the Mac will be the full Windows product that Insignia has just licensed from Microsoft , so that Windows and MS-DOS programs will be able to run legitimately on an IBM Corp chip-powered Mac . |
| 2 | Peter has just come from California to make ‘ a film of English life ’ which will involve the reconstruction of an English residence in Hollywood . |
| 3 | I respect them , especially so as he has just come from South Africa . |
| 4 | Walter , 17 , has just come from Paraiba , where his mother died . |
| 5 | This driver has just returned from France , after managing to get through the blockade . |
| 6 | Don Reading , of Save The Children , has just returned from Somalia and said : ‘ This matter needed more than anything the chance to reach the people . |
| 7 | A relief worker from one of the region 's charities who has just returned from Somalia says the appalling suffering of women and children will remain etched on his mind for ever . |
| 8 | Durham solicitor David Keating has just returned from Albania where he led a delegation of lawyers to help establish the legal profession there . |
| 9 | SINGER Cathy Dennis , above , has just returned from Houston , Texas , where she was a guest of honour at America 's largest Thanksgiving Day parade . |
| 10 | He regularly visits eastern Europe and has just returned from Czechoslovakia . |
| 11 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that a delegation from the Inter-Parliamentary Union has just returned from Russia and the Ukraine ? |
| 12 | The Rev Dr Fergus Macpherson of the British Council of Churches has just returned from Malawi , where he talked to the president for life , Hastings Banda . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Oag has just returned from Tokyo , and will set off for a climbing exhibition in Grenoble in a few days . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Jon Bloomfield has just returned from Prague . |
| 17 | If you 'd just rung from Bryn 's place I could have at least made myself presentable , cariad ! ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not surprised ! ’ the other girl agreed sympathetically , having just heard from Laura the full story of her traumatic outing , which had culminated in her being arrested and ending up in the New York police station . |
| 20 | ‘ Trevor Newsom , ’ said Derek Carlisle , ‘ is now on Luctia , having just arrived from Vasca where he earlier recorded the interview we have just seen . ’ |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | Yesterday , having just returned from Mauritius , she told me : ‘ It will look very smooth on the screen . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | That 's because Jonathan will have just returned from Japan where he will have been learning how business is done in the Far East . |
| 25 | Back to our lead story , and we 've just heard from Paris that |
| 26 | ‘ I 've always thought it unlikely , but I 've just heard from George this morning that it is impossible . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , I 've just heard from Channing , and his men have drawn a total blank in the village . |
| 28 | ‘ But you 've just driven from Paris ! |
| 29 | ‘ I 've just come from Harold 's . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |