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 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 .
8 Dom Turner , aged 21 , has just returned from an 11-week assignment in southern Chile with adventure charity Operation Raleigh .
9 A group of ornithologists has just returned from an expedition to an arid area in Mexico in which you are keenly interested .
10 ‘ Not at all as if you 'd just dismounted from a horse .
11 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 .
12 I got the news of the fall of Shatila in London , having just returned from a fund-raising trip in the Gulf countries .
13 I write this having just returned from a meeting in Frankfurt of the Council of the Federation of European Credit Management Associations ( FECMA ) .
14 We 've just emerged from an exhibition at the Royal Academy , ‘ British Art of the Twentieth Century . ’
15 How d " you always manage to look like you 've just escaped from a hair-pulling battle ?
16 ‘ I 've just come from a session with Gladys Brown , a strange woman who has the room next to Meryl Armitage 's .
17 ‘ I 've just come from a crossroads called Quatre Bras , sir .
18 ‘ I 've just come from a meeting with Bobby Anscombe .
19 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 .
20 Seeing the British soldiers , the startled men sat and ate though they had just risen from a complete meal .
21 He had just escaped from a ship at Sharpness docks .
22 Even when she had just fallen from a catwalk , Dana had a vivacity Claudia could n't match .
23 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 .
24 The two-car Pacer train had just emerged from a tunnel when it ploughed into 11 cows .
25 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 .
26 ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’
27 He was only twenty-six and had just recovered from a slipped disc .
28 Mowbray said : ‘ I had just recovered from an Achilles injury on my right leg when I hurt my left ankle .
29 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 .
30 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 ) .
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