Example sentences of "[adv] return to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McKee suggests that it was important to them that they did not return to a pre-adult state of dependence upon their parents . |
| 2 | In order to be a Christian and to continue the Great Battle against the Evil One , I can not return to the life and times of the New Testament church as if there had been no history in between . |
| 3 | On Sept. 10 the opposition confirmed that it would not return to the Assembly until its demands — including an early general election — had been met . |
| 4 | If their cap is stolen , they can not return to the sea and may wander the shores in the form of hornless cattle . |
| 5 | Benstede had told Corbett he need not return to the Abbey but could bed down in the hall with the other retainers and he gratefully accepted the offer . |
| 6 | The Palestinian delegation indicated that it would not return to the negotiating table until Israel reversed its decision on the deportations . |
| 7 | She had to accept the fact that he might not return to the convent and , sad though it made her , she would often lay her cheek against the rough heather and whisper his name . |
| 8 | ‘ If you do not return to the line now , Mahmud , ’ he said , ‘ I am going to cut off your knackers ! ’ |
| 9 | If they do not return to the office or call in as arranged the supervisor should ensure that contact is made with that address to determine if the visit has been made and concluded . |
| 10 | Other prisoners said that in Keraterm — a notorious PoW camp which they dubbed Auschwitz — prisoners were crippled by having the ligaments in a knee cut out and tied in a knot so they could not return to the fighting . |
| 11 | Therefore we can not return to the politics of 1975 to 1978 , ’ said the Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan , in Paris . |
| 12 | As night fell , and Weaver did not return to the flat he was sharing , Bodie and Doyle ceased surveillance on the eighth floor and drove the short distance to the house where Liz Spalding was standing guard over the Stone family . |
| 13 | Despite substantial reductions in mortgage interest rates confidence did not return to the marketplace . |
| 14 | The Harpers became worried when their daughters did not return to the family home in Cheltenham and reported them missing 24 hours later . |
| 15 | His wife Lavinia , 39 , had asked estate manager Mr Brian Ealey to raise the alarm at 10.20pm when he did not return to the farmhouse . |
| 16 | Er could I just return to the line of questioning very briefly that the Senior Inspector was was pursuing a moment ago with with the County Council , in terms of the assessment of the environmental impact that the forty one thousand figure . |
| 17 | Students intending to resit an examination will normally return to the centre where they originally studied in order to take the resit examination . |
| 18 | They must have constantly wondered whether they would ever return to the world outside the moat that separated them from it , a moat that also served as a sewer . |
| 19 | If you do , you should always return to the subroutine and exit via the RETURN statement . |
| 20 | First , they can always return to the solicitor to seek more details of the basis of charging ; many bills are uninformative about this . |
| 21 | The transferred executive will automatically return to a job in the home country ; the spouse will not . |
| 22 | there 's good news for United … keeper Alan Judge is fit again so he 's back and Chris Pike could also return to the attack … |
| 23 | The best time of day would be between twelve noon and three thirty or four o'clock , this is a time when the manager is generally out having one of his long lunches , er the assistant manager would probably return to the bank about round about two , two thirty , and the situation in the bank er between these times would be that there would be only a handful of staff , usually junior staff on duty who are more susceptible to passing information than the senior staff . |
| 24 | Let us now return to the question of assigning lexical units to lexemes . |
| 25 | She will now return to the court on May 25 where she faces a possible two years in prison or an unlimited fine . |
| 26 | Observe the completely different effect produced by replacing the adjectives in ( 1 ) by the corresponding adverbs , as in : ( 28 ) Ellen shook the keys loosely muzak drives them madly And contrast the two sentences of ( 29 ) ( b ) : ( 29 ) ( a ) what did the new system do to the motors ? ( b ) the new system made the motors quieter the new system made the motors more quietly 5.4 Let us now return to the matter of the resultative nuance which can indeed be observed in all the examples we have given , reproducing the structural diagrams ( 21 ) and ( 22 ) to do so : ( 21 ) ( 22 ) If these diagrams represent the relations actually used in constructing such expressions , it follows that the entity of the noun phrase , as initially present to the mind of the speaker ( and to that of the listener in the final interpretative phase of comprehension ) lacks the property of the adjective since it is structurally separated from it ; however , since that property is expressed by an adjective , then ex hypothesi it will apply to the entity of the noun phrase when the construction is taken as a whole ; if not , then either the property would be expressed by an adverb , and apply to the verb , or the whole construction would be literally incoherent . |
| 27 | Let us now return to the topic of " existence predicates " . |
| 28 | ‘ We will now return to the battlezone , ’ he said . |
| 29 | In the light of high political intent and peasant sentiment , let us now return to the market town of Roslavl' and examine Party and urban reactions there in 1922 . |
| 30 | She might even return to the house after suffering a miserable day because of him . |