Example sentences of "returned [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He cleaned my clubs and shoes and returned them to the Inn 's store room ready for the next round of golf . |
| 2 | Aggie gathered up the letters from the table , returned them to the writing case , then rose heavily , saying , ‘ Time enough to think about that . |
| 3 | In April 1860 the Minister of Internal Affairs presented " Temporary Rules on District Land Offices " to the State Council , but in June the tsar returned them to the ministry to await the preparation of a Statute on Provincial Institutions . |
| 4 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
| 5 | He placed it in the box and that eventually returned itself to the ticket office . |
| 6 | Wycliffe returned everything to the drawer . |
| 7 | He returned one to the pile and got a larger one . |
| 8 | The appellant failed to comply with the rules of the hostel , on one occasion leaving without permission , and was brought before the magistrates ' court who returned him to the hostel . |
| 9 | The story is told of Lutey , a Cornish fisherman , who rescued a mermaid stranded in a tidal pool and returned her to the ocean . |
| 10 | I flew her three times straight off , and then returned her to the aviary . |
| 11 | He returned it to the Society and it was agreed that the arrow would be retained from then on as the Papingo Trophy , with each winner adding a gold or silver medal bearing his name and the year of his success . |
| 12 | Linda appeared with her bicycle , and reluctantly returned it to the gloom of the garage when Chrissie called to her to do so . |
| 13 | I returned it to the centre and exchanged it for another kit which also gave me a zero reading . |
| 14 | She handed the glass back to him and he returned it to the restaurant . |
| 15 | Once privatised , BNP is likely to emulate Société Générale , which has shed staff , costs and unprofitable accounts since Mr Balladur , then finance minister , returned it to the private sector in 1987 . |
| 16 | He returned it to the failed initiate without comment . |
| 17 | Five years later , the plaintiff , having been informed that the painting was not a Constable , returned it to the defendants and asked for his money back . |