Example sentences of "had just [vb pp] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing the British soldiers , the startled men sat and ate though they had just risen from a complete meal . |
| 2 | He had just escaped from a ship at Sharpness docks . |
| 3 | Even when she had just fallen from a catwalk , Dana had a vivacity Claudia could n't match . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The two-car Pacer train had just emerged from a tunnel when it ploughed into 11 cows . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 8 | He was only twenty-six and had just recovered from a slipped disc . |
| 9 | Mowbray said : ‘ I had just recovered from an Achilles injury on my right leg when I hurt my left ankle . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | I had just returned from a training stint in Lanzarote . |
| 13 | He had just returned from a fresh session with the PM at Downing Street . |
| 14 | He had just returned from a visit in 1937 to the Government fighting front in Spain . |
| 15 | The speaker had just returned from a ‘ little-known place , in Southern Africa — Lesotho , or ‘ Basutoland , as it used to be called ’ . |
| 16 | Poor had just returned from a week in bed with flu when she was picked to test the trapeze . |
| 17 | He looked as though he had just returned from a Chas'n Dave concert or tied up Hercules the horse in the Steptoe and Son barn . |
| 18 | He and Diana had just returned from an exhausting tour of America , plugging Britain and British industry at every turn . |
| 19 | Jakki had just returned from an idyllic holiday in America ( more of which in a moment ) when she was told to get back on a plane because the Material girl had finally agreed to give an interview on Radio One . |