Example sentences of "returned to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like you , it 's high time I returned to the real world . ’ |
| 2 | When he finally died of alcoholism , she returned to the only job she knew , dancing . |
| 3 | Threading his way past the echoing warehouses , boarded shop fronts , and silent cafes , he returned to the concrete hut , only to find there the body of Philip Walton . |
| 4 | Having looked gloomily into the windows of antique shops , and steered his way past lines of tipsy Tories , he returned to the Grand where a functionary manning the door noticed that he was not wearing a photo-pass . |
| 5 | They returned to the Grand Hotel , ascended together to Harvey 's room on the second floor , drew the curtains and placed a bedside lamp on the floor . |
| 6 | President , since Swan Hunter returned to the private sector in nineteen eighty six , workforce , management , trade unions , have worked together to produce the world 's finest war ships and one of the world 's finest yards . |
| 7 | In his electoral address of February 1985 Gorbachev returned to the European theme , regretting the loss of impetus that had occurred since the signature of the Helsinki Final Act ten years earlier and expressing the hope that West Europeans would not allow ‘ our common home ’ to be converted into a testing-ground for American doctrines of ‘ limited ’ nuclear war . |
| 8 | Drew returned to the Great Western Hotel , surrounded by crowds of onlookers and journalists . |
| 9 | Still like a whale , now a silken one , he returned to the small office and put the call through to Galland 's unit in the Netherlands . |
| 10 | Herrick returned to the central desk and was busy a moment at the keyboard , then he returned , a thin film of transparent card held delicately between the fingers of his left hand . |
| 11 | Helen returned to the new acquisitions . |
| 12 | Then , Boswell and Johnson returned to the New Inn and sat quietly all evening , and ( it being Sunday presumably ) discussed Christ and Christianity . |
| 13 | He returned to the young woman and carried her in , sitting her down in the fireside armchair . |
| 14 | Swiftly expelled , he returned to the comprehensive system , but a sequence of petty crimes meant that his formal learning was completed in a succession of borstals and detention centres . |
| 15 | He thus returned to the Soviet capital under very different circumstances from his last visit 22 years earlier , when he had been brought to Moscow and forced to give his approval to the invasion . |
| 16 | He returned to the Arab quarter , and saw the poverty , no longer as picturesque , but as a by-product of French colonial prosperity . |
| 17 | Precisely when and in what circumstances Molla Fenari returned to the Ottoman lands is not entirely clear , though both Ibn Hajar and Taskopruzade assert that he had returned by the time he went on the pilgrimage in 822/1419 . |
| 18 | The need for further study of this confused period is clearly indicated , but the statements of Ibn Hajar ( and al-Makrizi ) and of the earliest chronological list and the document indicating Molla Fenari 's presence in Karaman in Jumada II 819/August 1416 provide at the least a consistent basis for explaining the reason for , and establishing the date of , Molla Fenari 's return ; and it may therefore be tentatively concluded that Molla Fenari returned to the Ottoman lands some time in , or shortly alter , Sha'ban 820/September-October 1417 . |
| 19 | He returned to the offensive only when a Polish general in Hungarian service , Józef Bem , took most of Transylvania out of the hands of the local Austrian commanders . |
| 20 | They returned to the front room and , after a light tea of eggs and toast , Willie changed for bed and positioned himself by the armchair , next to Tom . |
| 21 | But when she returned to the cool breakfast-room where Faye was spending the morning , the artist clapped her hands together delightedly and said , ‘ There ! |
| 22 | Sarah returned to the outer office . |
| 23 | Winchester 's next posting was to Cyprus to build defences , but he soon returned to the Western Desert , where , between May and September , he was involved in desperate rearguard actions — the battle of Gazala , followed by Alamein in July , when Auchinleck checked Rommel , who was then within striking distance of Alexandria . |
| 24 | Everything then was twice as frightening , so I returned to the gentle patting and quiet treatment with which I had tried to persevere before , and slowly Jester forgot his ‘ fear ’ and got on with his work . |
| 25 | In 1924 she repudiated communism and returned to the Labour movement . |
| 26 | Eliot returned to the Russian Ballet in 1919 , and in 1921 saw their dancing in terms of vegetation rites and primitive ceremonies , but that dancing contained only marginal interest because not linked to the modernity of Stravinsky 's music . |
| 27 | Polland is now living in Spain and no longer involved in competitive golf while Brennan returned to the amateur ranks shortly after his success . |
| 28 | When she returned to the top room , where Scathach lay , she found that the wall had almost completely absorbed Harry 's corroded pistol . |
| 29 | True , he had to make distracting , bread-winning forays away from it but then , with glad and hastening steps , he returned to the true centre of his life , the children whom he helped to feed and bath and dress and play with , even cook for , in domestic servantless days like these . |
| 30 | But nobody bothered them when they returned to the white salon . |