Example sentences of "to return [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said : ‘ I hope , God willing , to return for the opening of the shelter when it is all finished . ’ |
| 2 | Marsh was always expected to return for the World Cup , and Waugh , with this superb innings , made it extremely difficult for the selectors to ignore him too . |
| 3 | And Ireland 's top traditional dancers are bracing themselves for even more misery at the end of this month when the 18-year-old whizz-kid is due to return for the World Championships in Dublin . |
| 4 | With the increase in the number of people having their own transport , those who have left the area are able to return for the show . |
| 5 | Christabel 's grandparents , Jean-Baptiste and Emilie LaMotte , had fled to England in the Terror of 1799 and had settled there , choosing not to return after the fall of Bonaparte . |
| 6 | And Brucie , 35 next month , will relish the chance to return against the team that has caused Liverpool so much grief in recent years . |
| 7 | An obsession with the Classical past was to return under the emperor Hadrian , who took a deep personal interest in the fortunes of Greece and eagerly adopted a Greek appearance . |
| 8 | The lower pool holds the main body of water that is pumped to the top one to return via the fall . |
| 9 | We found plenty of interest in the area but not many Klondykers and somewhat thankfully broke the ice through the Caledonian Canal to return via the East Coast to Southampton for Christmas . |
| 10 | The running footsteps faltered , slowed , began to return along the corridor . |
| 11 | The seven year old spoke for the first time and darted away to return with the roll of foil . |
| 12 | Off to Penzance went Killigrew , to return with the daughter of the Mayor , Lucy Treleaven , ( a brunette , to contrast with his previous two blonde ‘ wives ’ ) . |
| 13 | Mairi was furious when after a while Luch started to take long to return with the bucket , but it did her no good ; the wee lass often vanished for hours at a time , in spite of the scoldings she got when she returned late . |
| 14 | British Naval Intelligence had decided to raid the base ; and intended to return with the Dane if he was an Allied sympathiser . |
| 15 | Baldwin thought the counter-offer acceptable , but as a rump Cabinet of the Prime Minister and six other members unanimously rejected it , he was forced to return with the matter unconcluded . |
| 16 | They had refused the instructions of their government to return before the war . |
| 17 | On April 9 the then Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Abdul Rahman Abdallah as Awadi said that elections were unlikely to be held before August or September 1992 due to the continued absence of an estimated 400,000 Kuwaitis ( including " second category " citizens ) who had left the country during the Iraqi occupation and who were not expected to return before the end of 1991 . |
| 18 | It arrived just before he was leaving for the United States ( another example of his self-forgetfulness , as he had not mentioned this to me ) , and he was not due to return until the end of July . |
| 19 | After a hard day in the hills , walking and fishing , it is wonderful to return in the evening to a steaming sauna and a well-equipped , modern kitchen . |
| 20 | Promising to return in the evening , they at last donned bright wet-weather clothes and disappeared into the greyness of the early morning , leaving us — mentally exhausted by our struggles with the French language — to begin the serious work of progressing with the arctic fox film . |
| 21 | He is expected to return in the Prix Niel . |
| 22 | The opportunity to gain this type of employment on the island encouraged a number of young people to return from the mainland of Scotland and use the off-farm income to help set themselves up in farming . |
| 23 | Suddenly it occurred to Alexei that in the event that he failed to return from the embassy the question of solemnising the marriage would not arise , and he wondered again how far he could trust Burun . |
| 24 | But to return from the cooler and immediately start ‘ mountain climbing ’ ( an old Pontypool expression ) was really stupid . |
| 25 | The adverse circumstances appeared to be part of a chain of events : girls experiencing early disrupted parenting before being admitted into care were most likely to return from the institution to a discordant home . |
| 26 | Land agent Robin Barbour , of Bridport , had been told by his family — wife Lavinia , son Henry and daughter Alexandra — not to return from the auction without the trip ! |
| 27 | In the event that the outbound flight is not used the person concerned will not be allowed to return on the inbound charter flight . |
| 28 | Milder weather is expected to return over the weekend . |
| 29 | I did n't want to return to the village : I wanted to stay here in one of the huts and not see any of them ever again . |
| 30 | The original ending was for Pip to return to the village on the wedding day of Joe and Biddy , he actually intended on going back to ask for Biddy 's hand in marriage , but receives forgiveness , from both of them . |