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 .
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