Example sentences of "just [vb pp] from a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Even when she had just fallen from a catwalk , Dana had a vivacity Claudia could n't match .
2 Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning .
3 ‘ I 've just come from a session with Gladys Brown , a strange woman who has the room next to Meryl Armitage 's .
4 ‘ I 've just come from a meeting with Bobby Anscombe .
5 ‘ I 've just come from a crossroads called Quatre Bras , sir .
6 As it happened the new ramp section was only just rescued from a bulldozer in the nick of time as the skate scene said a final goodbye to Andover skatepark .
7 Of this Estabrook had perfect proof when , by chance , he suggested , but looked , Charlie thought , like a man just risen from a fever .
8 He had just escaped from a ship at Sharpness docks .
9 You do n't look like a man who 's just escaped from a fire . ’
10 In the following May , Miller again reported illness , being just recovered from a fever and subsequent attack of rheumatism , so wished to postpone a visit to Woburn .
11 But the Scot has only just recovered from a mystery virus and insists he needs to be involved for some 10 matches before he is back to his best .
12 Mowbray said : ‘ I had just recovered from an Achilles injury on my right leg when I hurt my left ankle .
13 After 30 seconds or so , he stops and rubs his left hand across his face in the way I do when I 've just woken from a night 's sleep .
14 The two-car Pacer train had just emerged from a tunnel when it ploughed into 11 cows .
15 PC Reid , a second RUC officer and a group of soldiers had just emerged from a field and were about to set up a roadblock on the Castleblaney Road on the outskirts of the town , when the shot rang out .
16 We 've just emerged from an exhibition at the Royal Academy , ‘ British Art of the Twentieth Century . ’
17 ‘ Not at all as if you 'd just dismounted from a horse .
18 It lasted only a year ( although there was no divorce until 1957 ) and some time after that Peter Lawford made the mistake of meeting Ava , who 'd just returned from a trip overseas , for a drink in a Hollywood restaurant .
19 I HAVE JUST RETURNED from a trip to Norway , a country I find like an exaggerated version of Scotland — bigger mountains , wider moorland , wilder scenery and more extreme temperatures .
20 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 .
21 ‘ I have just returned from a holiday in Hungary with my six year old son and I feel I must write to thank you .
22 I write this having just returned from a meeting in Frankfurt of the Council of the Federation of European Credit Management Associations ( FECMA ) .
23 I have just returned from a visit to Bulgaria , and I thought your readers might like to see their spraying equipment .
24 He had just returned from a visit in 1937 to the Government fighting front in Spain .
25 I HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlord , Mr Heathcliff .
26 I had just returned from a training stint in Lanzarote .
27 That should guarantee Annadale maximum points in the 1,500 metres , as Lough , who has just returned from a training stint with the GB squad in New Mexico , clocked 3.40.2 … a personal best … at Loughborough on Wednesday night .
28 Particularly when he has just returned from a period of injury .
29 I have just returned from a NATO meeting last week at which we agreed the military strategy that will accompany the strategic concept now agreed , of which Germany is a prominent supporter .
30 Poor had just returned from a week in bed with flu when she was picked to test the trapeze .
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