Example sentences of "his return to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matthew Maynard should make the ‘ A ’ tour as the first step of his return to Test status . |
| 2 | John of Marmoutier tells the legend that Geoffrey le Bel dressed up as a rustic and listened to complaints about his prévôts ’ rapacity ; on his return to court , he paid back the sums they had extorted , and threatened them with death if they continued to defraud the peasantry . |
| 3 | WHAT a delight to see my childhood hero Noddy dancing with presenter Anthea Turner to celebrate his return to TV . |
| 4 | His silly face , so meaningless and without awareness of danger , seemed translated into sense through his return to music , and his entire concentration on the rhythms of the jig — Nicandra felt exhausted and exasperated by the realization that it was not in her power to be either kind or cruel to Silly-Willie . |
| 5 | The law firm 's statement said : ‘ Mr Johnson denies taking any prohibited substance or engaging in any improper practice since his return to competition . |
| 6 | Controversial American sprinter Butch Reynolds marked his return to championship racing following the end of his drugs ban by powering to the 400 metres crown in a new championship record 45.26secs . |
| 7 | In other words , McCreery would be seeing the commanding officers in 6 Armoured Division who on 19 May had expressed disquiet over the Yugoslav repatriations , as had been reported by Maj Mennell on his return to Division HQ . |
| 8 | The count 's cold voice and his return to formality assured Maggie that he had seen this small action and now he sat beside her with a set look on his face that told her he might very well not speak for the whole of the journey . |
| 9 | He did not look at Maggie and she noted only too well his return to formality . |
| 10 | He said his return to vision was foreseen by evangelists in 1990 who prayed that his sight may be restored . |
| 11 | By July 26 Escobar 's reported preconditions for his return to prison included his future confinement in Antioquia province and the presence of the country 's " political forces " at his surrender . |
| 12 | The document expressed great concern that Wilson had been strongly pro-Israel when prime minister from 1964–70 and that his return to office would sour relations with the Arabs at a time when the international oil crisis was acute . |
| 13 | The six months Tom spent in hospital prevented his return to college . |
| 14 | Sterland announced his return to fitness by saying : ‘ I am picking up my training steadily and looking to turn out for the reserves in the middle of next week . |
| 15 | On his return to duty , and the award of a DSO , he was ordered to Bomber Command where Harris confirmed that he was to command the Pathfinder Force . |
| 16 | Having thus concluded that it is Mehmed Sah , not his father , to whom the list entry corresponding to the year 832 ( 833 ? ) refers , Husameddin mentions the pilgrimage in 833 and then proceeds to try to invalidate the evidence of the biographical sources about Molla Fenari 's death date by saying that Ibn Hajar dates his return to Rum , not his death , in Rajab 834 and that Ibn Taghribirdi gives that date for his departure on the pilgrimage . |
| 17 | He is expected to play again in January , specialists having approved his return to training , but is unwilling to turn out too soon , as he did against Steaua after surgery , for fear of jeopardising his chances of playing in the World Cup . |
| 18 | Only the width of a post denied him a sensational late equaliser at Everton in the following round , and Second Division Brighton will greet his return to action with some trepidation in tonight 's second round replay . |
| 19 | Just before the break , Charlie Nicholas , enjoying his return to action after an 18-game absence , unleashed a ferocious , 18-yard effort that clipped the base of a post . |
| 20 | He confesses that he killed a man on board the space ship and so would have been tried on his return to Earth . |
| 21 | Three years after his return to railway work he became deputy chief mechanical engineer of the newly formed London , Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923 and two years later succeeded George Hughes as chief mechanical engineer . |
| 22 | His Williams team-mate , Alain Prost , marked his return to Formula One yesterday after a year 's sabbatical by claiming provisional pole position . |
| 23 | Ever since his return to power in 1958 , his foreign policy had been pointed in that direction : his development of an independent French nuclear deterrent and his growing estrangement from NATO are part of that general background against which his treatment of the EEC in 1965 must be understood . |
| 24 | Both organizations demanded his return to power , while not endorsing military action . |
| 25 | There had been intense speculation over whether or not Rawlings would compete in the first free presidential contest since his return to power in a military coup in December 1981 ( having previously chaired the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council which had ruled Ghana from June to September 1979 — see pp. 30437-51 ; 31477-86 ) . |
| 26 | As early as 18 May , one of the leading Gaullist conspirators , Michel Debré , was informed by a high-ranking officer that the operation was ready for launching whenever the General gave the signal that his return to power " by legal means " had been blocked . |
| 27 | More fundamental — because it looked towards a future international order rather than the waning one — was the critique of NATO and American hegemony that he developed on his return to power and that remained one of the hallmarks of his international policy throughout the 1960s . |
| 28 | His return to power was taken very seriously by the US State Department . |