Example sentences of "just [vb pp] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has just come from outdoors : his moustache is cold , and damp with dew . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've just come from work . |
| 3 | Andrew Ridgley and I had both just come from school about nine months before we took off with WHAM ! |
| 4 | The author was an Englishman , Dr Farrar , who had just died from typhus . |
| 5 | Her arms felt languorous , her flesh soft and relaxed as if she had just awakened from sleep . |
| 6 | There he stood leaning against it , his arms outspread , one cheek pressed on to the black wood , with his breath coming in gasps , as if he had just surfaced from drowning . |
| 7 | And people say they noticed how tightly O was holding Boy , pulling him closer and closer to him , as if he was clutching at him ; and how he smelt Boy too , taking in big draughts of the air around him , as if he was a man just escaped from drowning holding onto something and pulling the sweet night air down into his lungs in great grateful gulps . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern , as good old burglars Harry and Marv , have just escaped from prison . |
| 9 | Win Morgan had obviously just woken from sleep , her eyes were heavy and her thin grey hair ruffled . |
| 10 | Phil Campbell , presenter of ‘ Folk Club ’ on BBC Radio Ulster , has just emerged from Spring Studio in Rostrevor with her first album of contemporary songs , and comes to the Harp Folk Club with husband Tom McFarlane on percussion and three other hand-picked musicians to showcase this debut offering . |
| 11 | And notwithstanding the invariable belief of these coaches that their own programme-of-the-moment is writ large on a tablet just descended from Heaven , there are no absolutes about which kind of exercises are best to get you fit over a short period of time . |
| 12 | Moreover , Labour politicians and full-time union officials were much more sensitive to the conservatism of a working-class electorate which was just weaned from Liberalism and , in many important areas , continued to return Conservative MPs . |
| 13 | Perhaps Caro 's declaration that her stepbrother was very likeable had not just stemmed from partiality . |
| 14 | HOME Secretary Kenneth Clarke might appreciate a letter sent to Horsham police by a convict just released from prison . |
| 15 | Mr Wormwood had just returned from work . |
| 16 | THE Parkhurst family , of Chelmsford , Essex , have just returned from holiday together — all SIXTY of them . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | She was carrying a shopping bag and had evidently just returned from town . |