Example sentences of "have [adv] come [adv] from " in BNC.

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1 When I quip that he sounds as if he has just come round from anaesthetic , Eva says , ‘ He has . ’
2 ‘ This report has just come in from the Environments Officer .
3 One British firm has just come back from France with almost £1m for its contribution towards landscaping .
4 ‘ He has just come back from Canada and he will go back to Canada . ’
5 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 ’ .
6 Sorry , the ghost has n't come over from the other side of the door , it just keeps moving by itself .
7 I 'm afraid Mr Steen has n't come up from the country . ’
8 Keegan said : ‘ Obviously there may be some truth in it , but it has n't come out from this end .
9 Yeah I think we 'd better come away from that , thank you .
10 That 's the compound radius fingerboard for you , and having just come straight from playing a ‘ 62 reissue Strat , the Manson 's fingerboard around and above the octave felt virtually flat in comparison .
11 But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that .
12 Apart from that , though , the whole crew might have just come in from Ellis Island Caduta herself was clearly the queen bee here .
13 Among those I met or saw were the Begum Aga Khan , who was with her very attractive daughter Princess Zahra Aga Khan ; the Director General of the British Equestrian Foundation Major Malcolm Wallace , two of our top Event riders Miss Karen Straker and Mrs Jane Thelwall ; and Mr Andrew Dixon , who had all come over from England with the Hermès party ; Mr Peter Laing , the Hon.
14 But no , she could not ride tomorrow , her boots had not come back from the shoemaker 's .
15 Edward had not come back from the construction firm at David with anything saved up , but then , she had hardly expected him to .
16 The Warbutt had not come down from his tower to wish his son farewell , and Bicker was grim and silent with his cloak held up around his mouth and ice crystals forming on it where his breath froze .
17 I 've just come back from France .
18 They 're always looking forward to going places they 've just come back from , or regretting doing things they have n't yet done .
19 And camping We 've just come back from Cornwall and it was very wet .
20 ‘ 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 .
21 ‘ I 've just come back from the Thomas Garlands ’ place , sir . ’
22 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 .
23 Tell them we 've just come back from that .
24 I 'm not being rude now , I 've just come back from the Gambia and I have n't stopped
25 Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years .
26 I 've just come across from the factory ; it 's windy out . ’
27 Sometimes , you 've just come home from work and your feet are sore and your head aches , but then the music starts playing and away you go .
28 A game of tag ( see below ) may well be just the thing ; but if they 've just come in from the playground and that 's what they 've been doing for the last fifteen minutes , it would be a bit of a waste of time .
29 Ruth Atucehene , an immigrant from Ghana , said : ‘ I had just come home from church and I was in the house with my children . ’
30 ONLY a dealer who had just come back from a weekend in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to hear of yesterday 's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for Caradon , the Twyfords and Everest building products group , so comprehensive has been the pre-match publicity .
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