Example sentences of "have just [verb] a [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | A FARM in Bures , Suffolk , has just received a reply from water chiefs to a drainage query sent in 28 years ago . |
| 2 | The extract starts where Gilly has just received a postcard from her mother . |
| 3 | Look , the office has just had a call from your father . |
| 4 | Quite by chance in collecting material for I have come across a cousin who is the communications and Public relations person at so I am to put them in touch with each other as the one in London has just had a letter from another in Vancouver trying to do family research . |
| 5 | He 'd just had a letter from Joan telling him she was pregnant and had already chosen the name Jasmine if the child was a girl . |
| 6 | FEW people outside Skinningrove have heard of the Tom Leonard Mining Museum yet they 've just received an SOS from a remote Bulgarian monastery asking for food parcels . |
| 7 | As for ‘ bookmatched ’ , well … imagine you 've just lifted a book from a library shelf . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just had a call from the commissioner 's office saying you 've arrested someone with security links . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , Doctor , I 've just had a call from Cabin 226 — a Mrs Jeffreys . |
| 10 | Thanks to you , I 've just had a lecture from old man Drewer — his theme being my long-term employment with this company in relation to sexual harassment . ’ |
| 11 | I 've just had a visit from Lou Stacey . ’ |
| 12 | I 've just had a letter from her . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've just bought an armchair from Adams which I 'm very pleased with . |
| 14 | This unit had just received a request from Colonel Keest in the Outer Hebrides for men to be taken off his hands . |
| 15 | Miller next wrote on 15 February 1757 reporting that he had just received a letter from Bartram , written at the beginning of November , with the ‘ disagreeable account that neither of my letters , wrote last summer ’ had arrived and thus some of his important queries had not been considered . |
| 16 | Carole Ann Ford had just begun a crossing from one side to the other when , without warning , the supports gave way , pitching her over and down to a very rough landing at the foot of ‘ the cliff ’ . |
| 17 | How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist . |
| 18 | Mr Kronweiser had just had a letter from his departmental head , a man whose word made or marred men 's careers , a man almost as sensitive to fashionable currents as roly-poly Dwight himself . |
| 19 | Questions range from the extreme — ‘ My client 's been arrested for murder ’ — to the mundane — ‘ I have just received a mailshot from another firm which is quite appalling . ’ |
| 20 | You live in Glasgow and you have just received a letter from a company requesting you to attend for interview at the Station Hotel , Inverness on Tuesday morning at 9.30 am . |
| 21 | Er , our press office tell me that we have just had a call from ten Downing Street , who want a copy of this speech . |
| 22 | Well Julie 's just had a letter from the police . |