Example sentences of "[adv] return to " in BNC.
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| 1 | after which horror one can only return to the banalities of modern city life which protect the individual from the terror of the deep insight . |
| 2 | Since they may only return to earth by replacing one of their number with a living child , mothers warn their off-spring never to follow the lights . |
| 3 | If I oppose him now in this , he will only return to it after my death . |
| 4 | If they would only return to playing with their undoubted flair and to enjoying the game as they once did . |
| 5 | Against that , Labour in the person of Harold Wilson had a more widely respected leader then it has now , and many experienced Tory canvassers are convinced that thousands of former Tory voters who are now thinking of defecting will gloomily return to the Tory fold within the next few days as they come face to face with the possible reality of a Kinnock government . |
| 6 | In general , it is more difficult to trace adoption breakdown than foster home breakdown , as the families concerned will not necessarily return to the agencies involved in the original placement . |
| 7 | However , please note that holidays do not necessarily return to the same port of departure . |
| 8 | At last he can cut down on teaching , write a personal travel book about the lesser Antilles and write novels that need no longer return to his own , blasted childhood . |
| 9 | ‘ But you would sooner return to la dolce vita than stay here and help her get well , ’ he said coldly . |
| 10 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 11 | The fact that a wide number of manufacturers work to the same pattern means that the caterer who is topping up need not return to the same source for the top-up . |
| 12 | Opening the debate , Mr Smith did not return to this theme but dwelt on ‘ the pathways out of poverty ’ proposed in the review , notably the introduction of a statutory minimum wage and the restoration of a link between pensions and average earnings . |
| 13 | Therefore we can not return to the politics of 1975 to 1978 , ’ said the Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan , in Paris . |
| 14 | The matter was dropped when the US objected to the idea of a joint declaration and , pleased by the generally positive tone of Mr Bush 's presentation , the Soviet team did not return to it . |
| 15 | Mr MacSharry has insisted that he will not return to Irish politics after his Brussels term ends , but intends to farm in his native Sligo . |
| 16 | But Gaily could not bring himself to ask why she did not return to it . |
| 17 | His wife Lavinia , 39 , had asked estate manager Mr Brian Ealey to raise the alarm at 10.20pm when he did not return to the farmhouse . |
| 18 | And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod , they departed into their own country another way . |
| 19 | We have launched a reform of our prisons , improving the prospect that those who serve custodial sentences will not return to crime . |
| 20 | The result was that his serious physical illness was assumed to be a form of ‘ school phobia ’ and his parents were threatened with a court order if he did not return to school Access to the file , including the head 's letter , would have enabled correction of the factual errors at least and perhaps an accurate diagnosis of his illness to be made . |
| 21 | I fear that we can not return to Salzburg very soon and mamma must not wish it , for she knows how much good it is doing me to be able to breathe freely . |
| 22 | I did not return to work until was 18 months so I was able to see him cut his first tooth , take his first step and many other monumental firsts . |
| 23 | Also , if rubber bearings do not return to their original shape after a quake , the building loses some stability , says Wylie . |
| 24 | When discussion of a reconvened Geneva conference was in the air in December 1973 , the government stated that ‘ Israel will not return to the lines of June 4 , 1967 , which were a temptation to aggression . ’ |
| 25 | He may also face the prospect of long-term hardship , if he can not return to work at all . |
| 26 | At the end of the War many men did not return to their former transport jobs , and women became a regular part of the platform staff . |
| 27 | Now they say that even when they get a new manager , they could not return to the traditional pattern of advice workers advising and the manager doing the rest . |
| 28 | In the primary levels ( two cycles of three years from age six to eleven ) , numbers enrolled showed a decline in the years after 1975 and did not return to the 1975 level until ten years later . |
| 29 | Benstede had told Corbett he need not return to the Abbey but could bed down in the hall with the other retainers and he gratefully accepted the offer . |
| 30 | Mackay did not return to Scotland after 1885 and there is little evidence that he thought of himself as a Scot , except in a very conventional , stereotypical way . |