Example sentences of "when he returned [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He stayed the week and was given lots of extra training , but he was still unsafe when he returned to the USA .
2 But when he returned to the ministry in 1913 , after a long spell of service in Rome , a great deal had changed .
3 When he returned to the cottage he extinguished all but one of the candles and took it through to the bedroom .
4 ‘ I just want to forget it all , ’ Murray reiterated , and in his agitation stuffed both letters together into his trouser pocket , where they remained , forgotten , until a month later when he returned to the London apartment , cramped but in a smart street in Chelsea , which his mother 's divorce settlement had provided .
5 When he returned to the Gold Coast he had been absent for 12 years : he had departed far too young to have made any mark .
6 When he returned to the UK he was eventually appointed to the board , but not , as might have been expected , in charge of the refinery side of the business .
7 When he returned to the theatre in 1983 for Chaplin , it was an almighty flop .
8 Jackson was still smarting when he returned to the station in the city centre .
9 When he returned to the dairy , in the sleepy afternoon heat , nobody was awake .
10 Five minutes later , when he returned to the lawn , she was sitting with her back to the tree and , standing before her , he said , ‘ I do n't know how to thank you for your kindness .
11 He wondered suddenly what he would find when he returned to the hut .
12 Simpson , of Hollyfield , Coulby Newham , was arrested when he returned to the scene shortly afterwards and a policeman smelled petrol on him .
13 One can imagine his dismay when he returned to the port and found the ship had gone — either earlier than planned or because the crew did n't want to be caught helping him .
14 When he returned to the room , having left the child in the kitchen , Aggie was pouring some milk into a mug , and she said to him , ‘ Look at that !
15 When he returned to the room downstairs , he picked up a book that Lord Henry had lent him .
16 He 'd sleep later when he returned to the track , curled awkwardly on the back seat of the car under an overcoat .
17 When he returned to the ground his eyes were sparkling with excitement .
18 When he returned to the stalls he sat beside Kate .
19 When he left the vehicle on the Saturday evening , all four wheels were off , and they were in that state when he returned to the job on the Sunday morning .
20 When he returned to the office on Monday Barnett called Tim into the office , an odd note in his voice which Tim did n't recognise at first .
21 When he returned to the parking-lot , it was nine-twenty-five .
22 But when he returned to the chair and sat down , the breathing started again .
23 El Cid himself fought like ten men and when he returned to the city he was bloody but victorious .
24 And when he returned to the college , he told the students they must n't let blindness get in the way of their creativity .
25 When he returned to the living-room he was carrying an oblong package wrapped in black silk , a spiral-bound shorthand pad and a cylindrical container made of brass .
26 When he returned to the States , Mueller lost no time in carrying out Cocello 's instructions to direct the phase-out of UK vehicle operations from Detroit , and to prepare detail plans to centralise European and world planning activities .
27 When he returned at the beginning of December 1340 Edward had immediately dismissed the home council , Robert Stratford , who was bishop of Chichester and chancellor , among them ; Archbishop Stratford , then held responsible for the home government 's failure , was ordered to Louvain as a hostage for the payment of the allies , while the dismissal and prosecution of other ministers and officials — mostly clerics — was set in motion .
28 When he returned with the blankets I must have been asleep .
29 But Donald 's first remark , when he returned with the drinks , was even more eerily appropriate to what Henry had in mind .
30 He added that he had been well treated when he returned for the US Open .
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