Example sentences of "returned from [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fred Pearce says that DoE scientists returned from Stockholm in 1982 ‘ convinced that Norwegian claims about acid rain were largely right and the righteous warnings from the generating board about scientific uncertainties were largely prevarication . ’ |
| 2 | So for oceanographers , used to data returned from ships in commercial shipping lanes , ERS-1 will give a totally global picture of the seas . |
| 3 | THREE pool players from Wirral have returned from Doncaster with a team bronze medal in the European Championships , writes Ian Hargraves . |
| 4 | On August 2nd the new Prime Minister returned from Potsdam with all too little settled by the Big Three and completed the formation of his Government . |
| 5 | In the years 1100 to 1102 , Henry was in a much weaker position than Rufus to refuse any reasonable request of Anselm which did not infringe the royal rights , and Anselm , newly returned from contact with Hugh of Lyons , was equipped with knowledge of papal theory and practice to a much greater extent than in the years before his exile . |
| 6 | The antisemitism in Vienna made his appointment to a university professorship difficult , but as he had married when he had returned from Paris in 1886 he needed to make a living . |
| 7 | 632/3 when Eorpwald 's half-brother , Sigeberht , returned from Gaul to partition the kingdom with his kinsman , Ecgric . |
| 8 | 9.35 : Check money and ticket stubs returned from parents for the Christmas Draw to take place at the school social evening next month . |
| 9 | Having returned from Rome at the end of 468 , he was suddenly consecrated bishop of Clermont in 470 . |
| 10 | ROD Jones has returned from Romania with a message for his fellow aid workers : ‘ The situation is desperate . ’ |
| 11 | Charity workers have recently returned from Romania after completing a survey of the hospital and Mr Paul Stage , chairman of the organisation , said : ‘ It has nothing in the way of modern conveniences . |
| 12 | Randolph himself returned from America with hundreds of badges marked Q for Quintin . |
| 13 | Andrew Kimani Ngumba , a former Assistant Minister for Lands and Settlement and mayor of Nairobi , returned from Sweden on Dec. 2 , 1989 , after three years of self-imposed exile [ see p. 35430 ] . |
| 14 | He had returned from Gascony at the end of 1254 , after disastrous and expensive enterprises in France and in Sicily : in the following March commissioners were appointed for the sale of timber in the royal forests ‘ for the relief of the King 's debts ’ , with the assistance of two or three knights and the local Forest officers . |
| 15 | The Soviet Union 's Soyuz spacecraft returned from orbit on Dec. 11 . |
| 16 | Claire Hughes , 25 , who had just returned from Australia for a family Christmas , was trapped with Robert , 26 , and widowed mum Kitty , 60 . |
| 17 | British ministers returned from trips to other countries with tales ( usually apocryphal ) about how budgets were being trimmed . |
| 18 | By chapter 11 they are splitting up again , Gandalf ( who had returned from Moria in chapter 5 ) riding off with Pippin , Merry setting off with Théoden , Aragorn , Legolas and Gimli going together once more towards the Paths of the Dead . |
| 19 | The front-page coverage on the first day of the trial — FREED RAPIST ‘ CAME BACK TO KILL' ( Daily Mirror ) — revealed that a rapist had returned from jail after being released to murder his victim . |
| 20 | Minton had returned from Jamaica with several pairs of shoes , made in Manchester for the Jamaican market , and a host of ideas . |
| 21 | Aliki had returned from Cyprus in time to cater for the event , but nobody displayed much appetite for the food she had prepared and most departed as soon as decency permitted . |
| 22 | The newspaper La Prensa , which had been closed down in February 1988 [ see p. 35818 ] , reopened on Jan. 7 , 1990 , its editor , Roberto Eisenmann , having returned from exile on Jan. 5 . |
| 23 | Several , including Taki , returned from exile to contest the elections . |
| 24 | Miguel Trovoada , an independent opposition leader who had returned from exile to the islands in May 1990 [ see p. 37674 ] , was elected President on March 3 , 1991 . |
| 25 | Four members of the FMLN high command ( Jovel , Villalobos , Shafick Jorge Handal and Eduardo Sancho ) had returned from exile to an emotional welcome at San Salvador airport on Jan. 31 , accompanied by leading members of Latin American political parties including the Cuban Communist Party ( PCC ) and the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) of Mexico . |
| 26 | Others returned from exile in Austrian-held Vojvodina . |
| 27 | Its leader , Hocine Ait Ahmed , returned from exile in Switzerland on Dec. 15 , 1989 , to a rapturous reception from a crowd estimated at 15,000 . |
| 28 | Lafontant , a former Interior Minister and notorious Duvalierist leader , had returned from exile in July 1990 , since when the military had repeatedly refused to act on a warrant for his arrest . |
| 29 | Shen had returned from exile in the USA in early August , the first prominent student leader to do so . |
| 30 | Shen had returned from exile in the USA in August and had been arrested on Sept. 1 as he planned to launch a Beijing office of the US-based Democracy for China Fund [ see p. 39095 ] . |