Example sentences of "who have just [vb pp] from " in BNC.

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1 The women 's world squash champion , Martine Le Moignan , and Jack Simmons , who has just retired from playing cricket for Lancashire at the age of 48 , receive the MBE .
2 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 .
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 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 In could come David West , who has just returned from holiday , while Colin Ramirez and Gary Macartney , substitutes at the weekend , may be in the starting line-up .
8 Walker , who has just returned from a two-week fact finding mission , is now preparing a detailed report for the Latvian authorities .
9 Maggie asked Ethel who 'd just returned from the top level .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 I spoke to as many reinforcements as I possibly could , especially those who had just arrived from Achnacarry .
15 For the first time I met Jeremy 's father , who had just arrived from America , and together we went in to see the body .
16 Next morning while we were loading , Omar brought a young but responsible-looking man over to me who had just arrived from Asba Tafari .
17 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 ’ .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 Claire Hughes , 25 , who had just returned from Australia for a family Christmas , was trapped with Robert , 26 , and widowed mum Kitty , 60 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 The younger boy had offered to make toast for a social worker , Elizabeth Weepers , who had just returned from sick leave .
26 Skip was saying this to Bilou who had just come from grand-prix multihull racing in France .
27 The author was an Englishman , Dr Farrar , who had just died from typhus .
28 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 :
29 You do n't look like a man who 's just escaped from a fire . ’
30 A doctor who 's just returned from helping victims of the civil war in Somalia has been describing how the surgeon next to him was shot in the operating theatre as they were trying to save a patient 's life .
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