Example sentences of "[adv] return to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You remember those things : they littered the creeks and bywaters of harbours , slowly returning to nature , back to the trees and minerals that gave them life . |
| 2 | Did you say something about Mr Boulez perhaps returning to work at the opera ? |
| 3 | Since they may only return to earth by replacing one of their number with a living child , mothers warn their off-spring never to follow the lights . |
| 4 | If you are unable to work as a result of sickness or accident for a period of more than 14 consecutive days , then your monthly Home Improvement Loan repayments will be made for you , until you are fit enough to return to work . |
| 5 | If you are unable to work as a result of sickness or accident for any period of more than 14 consecutive days , then the cover will pay your monthly loan repayments for you , until you are fit enough to return to work . |
| 6 | He 'll give the Colonel every chance to prove that he 's fit enough to return to work . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It 's up to his doctor to decide if he 'll be fit enough to return to work . |
| 8 | ‘ One of the reasons we constantly return to sex is — I think — that we are always needing to know if this is enough to justify what we go through because of It . |
| 9 | In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land . |
| 10 | Assuming Gorbachev can continue with his reforms the KGB will be in the same position as would MI5 were a Labour anti-nuclear government suddenly returned to power . |
| 11 | When he finally returned to power , he was careful not to preside over the new Gaullist party , the UNR , in the same direct way that he had led the RPF . |
| 12 | He has been in hospital since November , but has been told he must shortly return to prison ( see Replies , this page ) . |
| 13 | At the height of the party , when he thought he would not be missed , Seb slipped away to return to Fern Cottage . |
| 14 | FEELING FIT : Roy has already returned to work Pictures : BILL ROWNTREE |
| 15 | I 'd just returned to Mistress Philippa 's when the bell began to sound . ’ |
| 16 | Julia , who had just returned to work after major brain surgery , was given the three-times-a-week slot Focus on Britain in the revamped News at Ten . |
| 17 | Townsend , who has only just returned to Premiership action for new club Aston Villa , said : ‘ It has been a slight worry but I 'm in no pain and after today 's training I know I 'll definitely play . ’ |
| 18 | Now confidence has burgeoned , and they are looking the most complete side in the First Division , secure in defence and incisive in attack ; and , with a squad gradually returning to strength , they could dominate the second half of the season . |
| 19 | They certainly did n't choose to drop out of society like their New York City equivalents who could always return to daddy 's money ; rather , theirs is a quest to reflect the plight of the dispossessed and let them know they 're not alone , to offer the disaffected hope , and to somehow go beyond merely preaching to those who already understand . |
| 20 | In subsequent periods , real wages gradually return to equilibrium , and the output with it . |
| 21 | The 57-year-old was first taken ill in 1988 after coaching England at the European Championship finals , but recovered quickly to return to coaching . |
| 22 | As Buschbacher et al. ( 1987 ) have pointed out , it is doubtful if many of the pastures that were created in the eastern Amazon basin in the 1970s ( section 7.3.1 ) , and have since been abandoned , w ill ever return to forest : they may be permanently covered in heathlike vegetation . |
| 23 | Every one of those workers knows exactly what his likely fate will be should the Labour party ever return to power . |
| 24 | On this basis he may by all means erect a system of imperatives logically interrelated with statements of objective fact , and elaborate it to any degree of complexity he pleases , but to confirm or correct it he has always to return to subjectivity , to his own spontaneity in the concrete situation . |
| 25 | Azaña promptly returned to power at the head of a purely Republican government , the Socialists preferring to shun cabinet responsibility . |
| 26 | Although many patients are quite fit when admitted to the ward , they will become completely dependent when they have an anaesthetic and may only slowly return to independence after a surgical procedure . |
| 27 | Moss escaped with his life but the famous " Lucky No.7 " car of his was not seen in a Formula One Grand Prix again although he did later return to saloon car racing . |
| 28 | As the war enters its final phase , the UN will probably return to prominence . |
| 29 | After Wednesday 's dreadful figures , speculative support also returned to Tarmac , up 7 at 146p . |
| 30 | He also returned to television , with two ITV plays , the first of which was The Move After Checkmate . |