Example sentences of "just [vb pp] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A young woman living in a semi-detached house on an unpopular Sheffield estate showed me a letter she 'd just received from the electricity board : " A board employee will … call at your premises to cut off the electricity supply on 9/11/82 . |
| 2 | May I draw the Economic Secretary 's attention to a study that I have just received from the House of Commons Library 's statistical section ? |
| 3 | It was next morning that Hazlitt came down to breakfast to find Coleridge with a letter he had just received from the Wedgwoods . |
| 4 | It reminds me of when , as a young man just flown from the comfort and security of the parental nest , I rented a small flat . |
| 5 | She sat or perched on an upright chair smiling like an angel just dropped from the skies . |
| 6 | I mean it was just lifted from the scripture and and put into a prayer or whatever . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've just come from the kinema . |
| 8 | I 've just come from the Embassy . |
| 9 | ‘ Ma'am , I have just come from the market . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just come from the Appeal Court . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's just phoned from the car to say that as far as he could tell Harry had nothing to do with it . |
| 13 | THE woods seem but just freed from the horror of primeval sea , if that is not primeval sea washing their bases . |
| 14 | He had just turned from the window , intent on leaving , when the woman walked back into the room . |
| 15 | Some of the Left had just defected from the ILP and had no desire to join with it again . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | I 've just retired from the Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service after just over thirty years service having reached , reached the er full time that I matured , that 's thirty years service and attaining the ripe old age of fifty five . |
| 19 | We need greater co-operation in Europe in these matters , because immigration and asylum flows are a major political concern , as we have just noted from the exchanges about Le Pen and the way in which people are feeding upon his visit . |
| 20 | If you remove the piece of rib you 've just knitted from the machine and then compare its width with the width of the needles in working position , you 'll see what I mean . |
| 21 | I 've just walked from the car . ’ |
| 22 | In fact , only just recovered from the ringworm , Nijinsky went to Doncaster chiefly to please his owner Charles Englehard who , not surprisingly , coveted the rare sporting distinction of a British Triple Crown . |
| 23 | That 's because Tony has just emerged from the players ' tunnel . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A roar of falling water as a door opened and closed indicated that someone had just emerged from the lavatory . |
| 27 | He has just emerged from the studio after recording his third album ; there will be many musical surprises in store . |
| 28 | Though no more than five feet and seven inches in height , he was strongly built , with the air of one who has just emerged from the gymnasium or the boxing booth . |
| 29 | A wing is composed of upper and lower layers which may readily be separated in an insect which has just emerged from the pupa . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |