Example sentences of "return to [pron] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the late and post-Roman periods , this commercial economy was disrupted and abandoned , returning to its former subsistence level . |
| 2 | Both Gerrard and his opposite number Bryan Gunn made outstanding saves in a thrilling climax to the game , and Norwich manager Mike Walker feels his side are now returning to their early season form . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought I would use a grenade ’ , said Vu Van Hau , a 22-year-old Vietnamese soldier who served for three years in Kompong Cham and Kompong Thom provinces , before returning to his native Ho Chi Minh City as part of the September withdrawal . |
| 4 | Kerr , returning to his favoured scrum-half position , was the best player for Ipswich |
| 5 | After the war it returned to its original Brescia-Rome-Brescia route . |
| 6 | THE SKY was still pink in the east , with rifts of blue between grey clouds , when the rooks returned to their ancestral nesting place in a scattering of trees . |
| 7 | IAN WRIGHT returned to his old hunting ground last night and with a poacher 's instinct shot Arsenal to within a point of the Premier League leadership . |
| 8 | At the end of the War many men did not return to their former transport jobs , and women became a regular part of the platform staff . |
| 9 | As we mentioned earlier , once a logogen reaches threshold , its activation level does not immediately return to its normal resting level ; it decays over a period of a second or so . |
| 10 | Tait intends to remain at his Berkshire base until the 1994 World Championships , after which he may return to his native New Zealand . |
| 11 | The play centres on the severe cultural disturbance generated by the fact that Clara , a girl , has been brought up as a boy and wants to remain one , while her brother , Lucio , has been brought up as a girl which he wants to remain , despite the fact that society is now demanding that both return to their normal gender ascriptions . |
| 12 | While this is going on ( and it can last several days ) the pair occasionally break off their courtship ritual and return to their chosen spawning site . |
| 13 | In Czechoslovakia , we now have two resorts , we return to our popular holiday centre just outside the historic city of Brno and also to Roznov near the Beskydy mountains . |
| 14 | She was happy enough , however , to return to her own frame house , built by her husband after their first five bitter years spent living in a sod hut . |
| 15 | LaBudde believes that drift-nets are the prime suspects for the disappearance of dozens of young humpback whales in the North Pacific , who have been failing to return to their Hawaiian breeding grounds in recent years . |
| 16 | This had been badly damaged when on Oct. 3 the Constitutional Court ruled unconstitutional the government 's proposals , based on the main plank of Smallholders ' policy , to return to their original owners lands confiscated by the state after the communists had taken power in 1947 . |
| 17 | He must start a campaign for this classic show to return to its rightful TV slot . |
| 18 | He must start a campaign for this classic show to return to its rightful TV slot . |
| 19 | Alas , we always had to return to our cobbled back lanes . |
| 20 | Lord Waddington quickly left the swish hotel to return to his official residence Government House — a 60-room Victorian mansion with swimming pool and 30 acres of gardens . |
| 21 | Only the knowledge that , by any modern standards , he was a genuinely quick bowler persuaded Ellcock to stay in the game and continue the battle for fitness when he was forced to return to his adopted London home from England 's tour of his native West Indies in 1990 without bowling a competitive ball . |
| 22 | 3 Stock should be arranged neatly in drawers or on shelves 5 When goods have been taken out ( eg to be shown to a customer ) they should be returned to their correct storage place . |
| 23 | After her father 's death in 1876 the family returned to their beloved West Surrey . |
| 24 | Over the whole experiment clones of clover that were returned to their original grass associate made more growth than those introduced to alien sites ( significant at P < 0.001 ) . |
| 25 | One of only two left in the world , it has been returned to its Yugoslavian Air Force colours . |
| 26 | In 1990 Johnston and Hatch had been a most feared combination but now the former has returned to his old stamping ground at Bishop Auckland for one final fling before retiring . |
| 27 | Oliphant , who was also knighted , went on to work on the atomic bomb , and subsequently returned to his native South Australia , where he became Governor . |
| 28 | That night , even as Grant 's and Springfield 's combined troops were mustering in Rockford for their council of war , the Prophet returned to his luxurious city apartment from the final meeting of his latest highly successful and highly profitable crusade . |
| 29 | After a short delay time ( 10 -8 s ) the excited atom or molecule returns to its former energy state and may emit radiation in the form of light , alpha- , beta- or gamma-rays . |
| 30 | Their homecoming , going to earth and returning to sources , reaches , in a sense , its furthest point in ‘ The Dry Salvages ’ , where Eliot returns to his own St Louis and Massachusetts childhood , to ‘ The life of significant soil ’ , and to the savage meanings associated with such beginnings . |