Example sentences of "who [vb past] just [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie asked Ethel who 'd just returned from the top level . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I spoke to as many reinforcements as I possibly could , especially those who had just arrived from Achnacarry . |
| 7 | For the first time I met Jeremy 's father , who had just arrived from America , and together we went in to see the body . |
| 8 | Next morning while we were loading , Omar brought a young but responsible-looking man over to me who had just arrived from Asba Tafari . |
| 9 | In 1987 I worked with a chief inspector who had just returned from university having read for a Bramshill scholarship in what he called ‘ black letter law ’ . |
| 10 | The Israeli Foreign Minister , Moshe Arens , of Likud , who had just returned from America , detailed the proposal of the US Secretary of State , James Baker , for three-way consultations on the composition of the Palestinian delegation . |
| 11 | While Jackson , who had just returned from filming a television clip , was mildly bemoaning the pressure it had placed on him to be ‘ incredibly entertaining for one minute ’ , his press officer was engaged in ordering him a beer from room service . |
| 12 | Joe had written to me suggesting that there was a post for me in Japan ( available through the good offices of Stephen Spender , who had just returned from there with a commission from the Dean of the Faculty of Letters at Tohoku University ) to go and teach English , in the poet-teacher tradition for which it was famous . |
| 13 | Claire Hughes , 25 , who had just returned from Australia for a family Christmas , was trapped with Robert , 26 , and widowed mum Kitty , 60 . |
| 14 | By half past ten , Deirdre ( Molloy ) Kavanagh had parted with all her little triangles of tricoloured pastry , taken off her apron , drunk a few glasses of champagne , told several guests that broccoli was out of fashion , and was busily engaged in conversation with a television journalist who had just returned from making a programme for Charles in Iran . |
| 15 | All the usual social suspects were there , including Princess Firyal of Jordan , who had just returned from Acapulco where she visited Ricky and Sandra di Portanova in their permanent tent . |
| 16 | We could n't talk because I believe he badly wanted to telephone someone who had just returned from China , so it was just a handshake really . |
| 17 | The younger boy had offered to make toast for a social worker , Elizabeth Weepers , who had just returned from sick leave . |
| 18 | Skip was saying this to Bilou who had just come from grand-prix multihull racing in France . |
| 19 | The author was an Englishman , Dr Farrar , who had just died from typhus . |
| 20 | Whichever way his tastes lie , and whatever the capacity of his purse and his bookshelves , it is certain that no other single work offers to the collector such variety of choice , experience and discovery as four and a half centuries of the book of which Lord Chief Justice Sir Matthew Hale ( 1609–76 ) wrote to one of his sons who had just recovered from smallpox : |