Example sentences of "[pers pn] have just returned from " in BNC.
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1 | On an outing to the obscure Gate Crag in Eskdale we picked a route called Bosigran — this had to be climbed because I 'd just returned from my first climbing trip to Cornwall . |
2 | I had just returned from a training stint in Lanzarote . |
3 | I 've just returned from this year 's Prix de Lausanne and the two Russian boys who entered were kicked out . |
4 | I 've just returned from South Africa , during which he went to stay with Sally Newcombe and refused to eat anything for a week and a half ’ . |
5 | Sir : I have just returned from five weeks in Zimbabwe , mostly at village level , and your leading article ( 6 October ) was right . |
6 | ‘ I have just returned from a holiday in Hungary with my six year old son and I feel I must write to thank you . |
7 | I have just returned from a visit to Bulgaria , and I thought your readers might like to see their spraying equipment . |
8 | I HAVE JUST RETURNED from a trip to Norway , a country I find like an exaggerated version of Scotland — bigger mountains , wider moorland , wilder scenery and more extreme temperatures . |
9 | I have just returned from today 's match dazed and confused . |
10 | Sir , I have just returned from a full week in Belgrade and would like to seek comment and clarification on the information and knowledge sanctions which are now being imposed on Serbia . |
11 | I HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlord , Mr Heathcliff . |
12 | I have just returned from an interesting and enjoyable conference on Coastal Zone Management held during a beautiful weekend in Copenhagen . |
13 | As I write , I have just returned from this gathering . |
14 | Your article on the Zambian food riots was accurate ( NI 189 ) : I have just returned from visiting friends who live on the Zambian Copperbelt and it was a shock to compare the well-provisioned tourist hotels with the half-empty shops in the city of Ndola . |
15 | I have just returned from a NATO meeting last week at which we agreed the military strategy that will accompany the strategic concept now agreed , of which Germany is a prominent supporter . |
16 | She has just returned from interviewing rape victims in Bosnia during a nine-day mission led by the International League of Human Rights.While European Community officials estimate 20,000 women have been raped , Francoise Hampson says quantification is impossible . |
17 | A sample : We 're coming in to land at Speke My legs are feeling very weak We 've just returned from Barcelona And now I 'm going for a sauna Toshack is of Scottish descent , and there is certainly a bit of McGonagall in there , though not the best bit . |
18 | ‘ We have just returned from Zakopane and we would like to express our delight in all aspects of the holiday . |
19 | When we meet they have just returned from a promotional stretch with Virgin in Los Angeles . |
20 | Particularly when he has just returned from a period of injury . |
21 | I believe that he has just returned from his second visit to Nepal — a country with which this country has had good relations for about 175 years . |
22 | He has just returned from working as a photographer for six months on the Russian liner Karelya . |
23 | Mr Davies , 40 , who attended with his parents , Derek and Joan , said he has just returned from Bosnia , which the Queen said must be a dreadful place to work . |
24 | 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 ) . |
25 | Nominated by his dying brother as Lord High Protector of the realm during the boy king 's minority , he had just returned from Scotland where , at the head of a powerful army , he had re-taken Berwick in his brother 's name and thus nullified the Scottish King 's threat of a full-scale invasion . |
26 | He had just returned from a fresh session with the PM at Downing Street . |
27 | He had just returned from a visit in 1937 to the Government fighting front in Spain . |
28 | His name was Mason , and he had just returned from the West Indies , where Mr Rochester had once lived . |
29 | He had just returned from addressing the UN General Assembly in New York where he had given an assurance that democracy was now firmly rooted in Haiti . |
30 | 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 . |