Example sentences of "[vb past] just [verb] from [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The author was an Englishman , Dr Farrar , who had just died from typhus . |
| 3 | Her arms felt languorous , her flesh soft and relaxed as if she had just awakened from sleep . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Mr Wormwood had just returned from work . |