Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] from the " 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 | The pristine Gondola has just emerged from the new paint-shop , opened in 1922 , and is about to be moved sideways on the traverser . |
| 3 | Though no more than five feet and seven inches in height , he was strongly built , with the air of one who has just emerged from the gymnasium or the boxing booth . |
| 4 | A wing is composed of upper and lower layers which may readily be separated in an insect which has just emerged from the pupa . |
| 5 | That 's because Tony has just emerged from the players ' tunnel . |
| 6 | Still hammering away , the Institute has the satisfaction of knowing that it has at last brought home to the Ministry of Health , within whose purview this question comes , that things are not what they ought to be , and Dr Eichholz , who has just retired from the Chief Inspectorate of Special Schools , is at its request making a special enquiry . |
| 7 | Les Stocker , the animal saviour from St Tiggywinkles Wildlife hospital at Haddenham has just returned from the islands after a fortnight 's hard work . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For his own paddling Andy has just changed from the AeroQuatic to the Dagger Crossfire and can now do brilliant 360s without paddles . |
| 10 | A young woman living in a semi-detached house on an unpopular Sheffield estate showed me a letter she 'd just received from the electricity board : " A board employee will … call at your premises to cut off the electricity supply on 9/11/82 . |
| 11 | Maggie asked Ethel who 'd just returned from the top level . |
| 12 | I 've just retired from the Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service after just over thirty years service having reached , reached the er full time that I matured , that 's thirty years service and attaining the ripe old age of fifty five . |
| 13 | Erm , I 've just discovered from the |
| 14 | I 've just walked from the car . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We 've just come from the kinema . |
| 16 | I 've just come from the Foreign Office , and you 're immediately on a new assignment . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've just come from the Appeal Court . |
| 18 | I 've just come from the Embassy . |
| 19 | If you remove the piece of rib you 've just knitted from the machine and then compare its width with the width of the needles in working position , you 'll see what I mean . |
| 20 | Now we may suggest that that 's the effect of the Second World War biasing alright biasing the estimates that we 've just produced from the whole sample . |
| 21 | It was next morning that Hazlitt came down to breakfast to find Coleridge with a letter he had just received from the Wedgwoods . |
| 22 | Tessa , a keen machine knitter , was a little nervous as she had just moved from the South and was conscious of the supposed North/South divide but she found the warmest welcome . |
| 23 | He had just turned from the window , intent on leaving , when the woman walked back into the room . |
| 24 | The ‘ nearest thing she could get ’ to a Lord Ismay was Sir Michael Palliser , who had just retired from the headship of the Diplomatic Service . |
| 25 | IBM Corp traditionally sends departing executives off with glowing resumees of their illustrious careers , so it was striking that the announcement late Friday that former chairman and chief executive officer John Akers had just retired from the company after 33 years was accompanied by the briefest and curtest summaries of his career — after all , the man had significant achievements behind him when he acceded to the top job , and it is arguable that many of the problems that plagued the company during Akers ' tenure were the fault of his predecessors , although it must be said that he was also in the loop at the time . |
| 26 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 27 | The dominant factor , in relation to poor housing conditions , lack of proper sanitation , food shortages and growing unemployment , was the fact that the country had just emerged from the horrors of the First Great War . |
| 28 | Stendhal immortalized the city in La Chartreuse de Parme , describing the beautiful women who walked in the streets as Madonnas who had just emerged from the paintings of Correggio and Parmigianino . |
| 29 | A roar of falling water as a door opened and closed indicated that someone had just emerged from the lavatory . |
| 30 | ‘ Because we had just switched from the Lothian District League to the National League I thought it was a good time to concentrate on coaching , ’ she said . |