Example sentences of "have just [vb pp] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using the hypothetical examples above , for instance , this is how it might work out : skilled employment ( 4 ) the top possible score : employment duration — she has just gone back to work ( 1 ) ; housing — she has had to move to a smaller flat(l) so has n't been there long ( 0 ) ; she does have a bank account ( 4 ) ; but is separated ( 0 ) ; and quite young ( 2 ) . |
| 2 | One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping . |
| 3 | ‘ He has just come back from Canada and he will go back to Canada . ’ |
| 4 | A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ . |
| 5 | I 've just chap , one of my chaps has just come back off a three days , confined spaces , responsible person course . |
| 6 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 7 | Pierre Berton , who wrote the books , has just got back from Vancouver . |
| 8 | He travels with camels and has just got back . |
| 9 | The important one for us has just reported back . |
| 10 | But I think they 'd just gone back for the money creed and once you get that well erm they do n't realize that they could be falling into the trap unless we blokes stand firm now to maintain this standard of living . |
| 11 | Well I c I I 've seen so many things over the year I just do n't believe it until I actually see it and th literally four weeks ago , I 'd just got back from Germany , went on a meeting the following morning and it 's that gentleman there , Steve , and h he 's got some pictures in his pocket which will prove exactly what we 're talking about . |
| 12 | That was er I 'd just got back from work . |
| 13 | My head shook as though I 'd just knocked back some hundred-proof whisky . |
| 14 | The duvet , I 'd just taken back from the dry cleaners ! |
| 15 | A.Q. : Towards five-thirty this morning , having just got back from the flower market , I was working in the front quarters of my shop when I got the idea I 'd heard a funny noise just outside the window … |
| 16 | I said I 've just gone back |
| 17 | What about Timo Metsola 's electronics outfit in Finland — where you 've just flown back from ? |
| 18 | In fact , I 've just flown back from the States today , and you 'll be glad to hear that the doctors assured me that Liz and Owen are on the road to a full recovery . ’ |
| 19 | I 've just come back from France . |
| 20 | I 've I 've just come back on that D two stop three . |
| 21 | They 're always looking forward to going places they 've just come back from , or regretting doing things they have n't yet done . |
| 22 | And camping We 've just come back from Cornwall and it was very wet . |
| 23 | CATHERINE Robbie , if you 've just come back here to give me a fright because of something that happened ages ago , you 're mad . |
| 24 | ‘ Dear Loretta , ’ she read , ‘ I 've just come back from an official trip to Italy , and I squeezed in a visit to a peace camp while I was there . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’ |
| 26 | We 've just come back from Chile , where chemical pollution , factory fishing , and poverty are the everyday reality facing fishermen , slowly destroying their ability to make a living and support their families . |
| 27 | Tell them we 've just come back from that . |
| 28 | I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped |
| 29 | Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years . |
| 30 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |