Example sentences of "return [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of returning through the back entrance of the house , though , she strolled round to the front . |
| 2 | When my hon. Friend the Minister made it clear that such a student would be invisible , that a student returning for the summer holidays would not affect that household , I was not sure whether the hon. Lady was pleased or angry . |
| 3 | The option of staying at school or returning after the birth of the baby is often not a very popular one . |
| 4 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |
| 5 | Returning towards the island he saw five Ju88s heading out to sea and although he now had little ammunition left , attacked and thought that he had managed to damage one . |
| 6 | Some Zanskaris make a six day shopping expedition to Leh taking goat wool and yak butter to trade and returning along the river with salt , tea , sugar , rice , matches and perhaps one or two luxury items . |
| 7 | Returning along the track , a gate in the wall on the right near a barn , 200 yards short of Calf Holes , admits to a sloping field with a sharp descent after passing a limekiln to Browgill Cave ; the stream which issues from there is the one that disappears into Calf Holes . |
| 8 | Returning with the meat , Travers and Marie decide to cook it there and then . |
| 9 | ‘ No , ’ said the woman , returning with the water . |
| 10 | ‘ One brandy , ’ the conductor announced , returning with the drink and handing it to Donna . |
| 11 | Rumour had it that on a less poetic occasion the Emperor had visited the pavilion accompanied only by Mme Walewska , his current favourite , embarking in a small rowing boat and returning with the lady only after a considerable lapse of time . |
| 12 | ‘ Can not do what ? ’ she said brightly , returning with the tray . |
| 13 | returning with the plate in a few moments . |
| 14 | Celia was returning with the beer , three glasses in between her hands , her tongue wedged in that chip in her teeth . |
| 15 | After ingestion , and hatching in the small intestine , the L2 travel by the bloodstream via the liver to the lungs , where the second moult occurs , the L3 returning via the trachea to the intestine where the final two moults take place . |
| 16 | A 12 mile cycle tour starting from Hawkhope to the Holt , returning via the pub at Falstone . |
| 17 | I know Liverpool are returning from the land of the lost and Aston Villa are looking good for a shot at the title . |
| 18 | And finally phase number one with Cancerians , A rather strange almost mystical day ahead , with thoughts returning from the past . |
| 19 | Since returning from the weekend meeting in Palm Springs , California , to which President Bush summoned him early this month , Mr Kaifu has seized the high ground at home in Japan 's efforts to avert a trade war with the United States . |
| 20 | This was certainly the case when some of Cromwell 's troops , returning from the Battle of Worcester , called in at Wilderhope because they knew that Thomas Smallman , a major in the Royalist army , would still be away . |
| 21 | Her voice was shaking as she told me that on returning from the cinema a couple of weeks earlier she had been grabbed from behind , dragged into an alley and viciously raped at knifepoint . |
| 22 | He was returning from the beach , face flushed by the sun . |
| 23 | Probably a group of youths returning from the pub , thought Dexter . |
| 24 | From the Micks returning from the bar with rows of slurping porter glasses clasped against their chests we get some hard glances . |
| 25 | Returning from the buffalo country , Nez Perce warriors boasted of battles with strange peoples : the Blackfoot and Gros Ventre of Canada , the Assiniboin and Crow of the central Plains . |
| 26 | The abbey bells rang for vespers but Corbett waited till he heard the monks returning from the chapel , before going down to join Ranulf in the whitewashed refectory . |
| 27 | Other Rembrandts in the sale include ‘ The Shell ’ ( est. £40–60,000 ; $70–106,000 ) and ‘ Christ returning from the Temple with his Parents ’ ( est. £30–50,000 ; $53–88,000 ) . |
| 28 | And Mr Cooper and Nebbins were returning from the field |
| 29 | That Nebbins heard Mr Cooper and the tractor returning from the field . |
| 30 | Already the labourers ' wives were returning from the village , long loaves tucked under their arms . |