Example sentences of "returned to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The following morning , after dropping Iris at Les Châtaigniers for the second day of her course , Melissa returned to the auberge and telephoned Antoinette Gebrec .
2 He returned to the Jorasses at the end of April , as soon as the méteo promised a spell of fine weather .
3 It would be a dim prospect for them if we returned to the policies of the Labour party .
4 Then he returned to the Vico annotations , transferring the most interesting methodically to his card index , until the clanging bell descended the stairwell , signifying the end of study .
5 The bottle sunk , I returned to the dunes , went to the top of the one the Bunker lay half-buried in , and had a look round with my binoculars .
6 We returned to the centre of the room .
7 Aaron 's company director mum Leah , 36 , only discovered what had happened when she returned to the centre after work .
8 When they returned to the centre Rachel and Nina applied light dressings to the scalds , then took the two ladies into the rest-room and gave them sweet tea to help them recover from shock .
9 Then he returned to the surface and was arrested .
10 Despite numerous offers to return to Grand Prix racing , including a staggering £1 million from the Brabham team in 1981 , Stewart never returned to the sport .
11 Later , Margaret stopped playing for a few years so she could concentrate on squash but three years ago she returned to the sport and now plays outside hitter for the Balerno team .
12 Kurlovich was convicted and banned in 1984 for smuggling anabolic steroids , but returned to the sport two years later , convinced ‘ drugs do not contribute to sport ’ .
13 But the world did n't begin to make sense again until Luke Hunter returned to the stand .
14 The following evening , when everyone returned to the hotel , quite a few fish had been caught , even a couple of Naver salmon .
15 When I returned to the hotel I telephoned Ron back home in Britain .
16 When we returned to the hotel for dinner a surprise awaited us .
17 The Wallabies had an early morning departure so Ofahengaue returned to the hotel at 4.30a.m. — only to find St George officials waiting in a car in the hotel car park looking for Ofahengaue to return .
18 Whitlock telephoned them the moment he returned to the hotel but when Sabrina contacted Lausanne station she was told the only afternoon train had already departed .
19 When eventually he returned to the hotel , wearing a complete set of clothes none of which were his own , Minton asked where he had been .
20 They returned to the hotel where Norman overheard one porter say , ‘ My god , he 's with them . ’
21 An hour later , Coleman returned to the hotel with the Sony system from Errol 's .
22 Atef Bseisou , the director of external security for the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) , was killed as he returned to the Hotel Meridien in Montparnasse , Paris , in the early hours of June 8 .
23 I returned to the hall .
24 If she returned to the Hall and told her father what she had endured she would be forbidden to return — that was what must happen .
25 With a shudder , Melissa returned to the hall .
26 In Structuralist Poetics Culler took an unenthusiastic view of deconstructionism , but he shortly returned to the United States and succumbed to the deconstructive wave that swept through the American academy in the late seventies , and into which I did not feel inclined to plunge .
27 However , one group of Americans which had few social aspirations and lacked political prejudice was that of the young architects , less critical of the man than they were impressed by the buildings and the city he had created , and they returned to the United States inspired by what they had seen .
28 Parish , who returned to the United Kingdom on July 18 , had been arrested on Sept. 19 , 1989 , and charged with assisting the Observer< journalist Farzad Bazoft ( hanged on March 15 — ibid. ) in spying on the Al Iskandria military complex south of Baghdad .
29 Nicholson returned to the bosom of his friends , somewhat dejected but still determined .
30 Christopher and I then returned to the fringes of power , having for a time been drawn perilously close to the centre . ’
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