Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] returned from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particularly when he has just returned from a period of injury . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He has just returned from working as a photographer for six months on the Russian liner Karelya . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ere he has even returned from Ludlow . |
| 6 | There was a look about him , as if he 'd recently returned from the Front . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had just returned from a fresh session with the PM at Downing Street . |
| 10 | He had just returned from a visit in 1937 to the Government fighting front in Spain . |
| 11 | His name was Mason , and he had just returned from the West Indies , where Mr Rochester had once lived . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When I spoke with him yesterday he had just returned from the funeral of his father-in-law , who had died after months of cancer . |