Example sentences of "have only [adv] [vb pp] from " in BNC.

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1 Miss Driver , 22 , has appeared in the television series Lovejoy , House of Eliott , Casualty and Kinsey , and has only just returned from Budapest — filming a Maigret adventure .
2 But the Scot has only just recovered from a mystery virus and insists he needs to be involved for some 10 matches before he is back to his best .
3 Seventh in the English Schools final last year , the 17-year-old Morpeth Harrier has only just recovered from a dislocated hip .
4 Given that HEBS has only recently moved from a topics-based approach , it is not surprising that schools still see the role of the health board in terms of help with specific topics and current health problems .
5 The smallest breed is one that has only recently arrived from Singapore , where it was known as the ‘ drain cat ’ .
6 She phoned to say that , having only just returned from Chester , it would be around nine before she could get over with it , and would that be all right ?
7 Some of them looked as if they had only just risen from their beds , as if this was breakfast time to them ; others had the look of people who had n't slept for a week .
8 One was the common ostrich ; the other was the smaller ‘ petise ’ version that Darwin had only just snatched from the jaws of his shipmates .
9 As expected , she found that subjects were very accurate at distinguishing a sentence they had only just heard from similar sentences with semantic or syntactic changes .
10 Then there was the question of the paternity of Mrs Clancy 's last child : Mr Clancy had only just returned from Egypt after a two-year posting , and — as Peony had pointed out — the child was only 14 months old .
11 They had only just recovered from dealing with all the correspondence and presents from the wedding ; six days later , when the pregnancy became official , lorry loads of letters , bibs and baby boots rained down upon them .
12 He had only just recovered from another bout of serious illness and was still extremely weak .
13 Sir Ranulph 's weight had dropped from 14 to 10 stones and he and Dr Stroud , 37 , had only just recovered from the low blood sugar condition hypoglycaemia .
14 But the remarkable thing is that three years ago Euravia did n't exist at all — except in the mind of its founder , Denis Mendoros , who had only lately arrived from his native Greece .
15 The former ANC president Oliver Tambo , who had only partially recovered from a stroke , was given the largely honorary position of national chairman .
16 Here the drill rig , which after numerous delays had only recently arrived from the mining camps of Northern Quebec , was boring downwards at a rate of about 30 m per day .
17 The new Minister , Idris Wakil , who had only recently come from Zanzibar to join the new Cabinet after the union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar , explained the reason for the new Ministry. :
18 This special place of the Sun in the Galaxy , if confirmed , certainly alters our picture of even the recent geological history of our planet , since we have only just emerged from a spiral arm .
19 In spite of this caveat , the implicit assumptions on which policies are based have only slowly evolved from a colonial , Euro-centric and messianic intellectual frame of reference which has endured the waning of empire and the regaining of political independence of most former colonies .
20 They are standing ln for the WRAC Staff Band Who are away on an important engagement in Eastbourne and Who have only recently returned from a tour in BAOR .
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