Example sentences of "had just [vb pp] from " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Billy and Paul had just disembarked from their tour bus after a 17-hour journey from the previous night 's gig supporting Rush in Fort Worth , Texas , and were on their way to play in St Louis the next evening . |
| 2 | Seeing the British soldiers , the startled men sat and ate though they had just risen from a complete meal . |
| 3 | He had just escaped from a ship at Sharpness docks . |
| 4 | It was next morning that Hazlitt came down to breakfast to find Coleridge with a letter he had just received from the Wedgwoods . |
| 5 | The news she had just received from Dorothy 's doctor had come as a dreadful shock , and for the moment she could not trust herself to speak . |
| 6 | The Exec Director gave the DDA a number that he had just received from his bureau chief in London . |
| 7 | Even when she had just fallen from a catwalk , Dana had a vivacity Claudia could n't match . |
| 8 | How could she spend Roman 's money so lavishly when she had just parted from her lover ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Tessa , a keen machine knitter , was a little nervous as she had just moved from the South and was conscious of the supposed North/South divide but she found the warmest welcome . |
| 11 | The BBC had just moved from Savoy Hill to Broadcasting House . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had just turned from the window , intent on leaving , when the woman walked back into the room . |
| 14 | Billy had just shuffled from one foot to the other and blushed as all dutiful sons should do . |
| 15 | The ‘ nearest thing she could get ’ to a Lord Ismay was Sir Michael Palliser , who had just retired from the headship of the Diplomatic Service . |
| 16 | IBM Corp traditionally sends departing executives off with glowing resumees of their illustrious careers , so it was striking that the announcement late Friday that former chairman and chief executive officer John Akers had just retired from the company after 33 years was accompanied by the briefest and curtest summaries of his career — after all , the man had significant achievements behind him when he acceded to the top job , and it is arguable that many of the problems that plagued the company during Akers ' tenure were the fault of his predecessors , although it must be said that he was also in the loop at the time . |
| 17 | True , the Armenians of Beirut have collected some macabre , terrible old photographs that might — had they been studied with more care by the shell-shocked peoples who had just emerged from the First World War — have served as a warning , the shape of things to come . |
| 18 | The dominant factor , in relation to poor housing conditions , lack of proper sanitation , food shortages and growing unemployment , was the fact that the country had just emerged from the horrors of the First Great War . |
| 19 | Stendhal immortalized the city in La Chartreuse de Parme , describing the beautiful women who walked in the streets as Madonnas who had just emerged from the paintings of Correggio and Parmigianino . |
| 20 | A roar of falling water as a door opened and closed indicated that someone had just emerged from the lavatory . |
| 21 | The two-car Pacer train had just emerged from a tunnel when it ploughed into 11 cows . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Because we had just switched from the Lothian District League to the National League I thought it was a good time to concentrate on coaching , ’ she said . |
| 24 | Gwendolen was dad in dark grey and was wearing the hat she had just purchased from the Iduns Brothers Bazaar . |
| 25 | Morse held up the photograph of Theodore Kemp which he had just removed from the living room . |
| 26 | The author was an Englishman , Dr Farrar , who had just died from typhus . |
| 27 | The Statue of Liberty had just arrived from Paris and was being assembled so it was not in New York harbour when they arrived . |
| 28 | I spoke to as many reinforcements as I possibly could , especially those who had just arrived from Achnacarry . |
| 29 | For the first time I met Jeremy 's father , who had just arrived from America , and together we went in to see the body . |
| 30 | Next morning while we were loading , Omar brought a young but responsible-looking man over to me who had just arrived from Asba Tafari . |