Example sentences of "returned from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maurice Adams , ACET General Manager , and Overseas Development Worker , Kate Bristow , have recently returned from Romania . |
| 2 | Sergeant Bramble had just returned from the Manor House upon his bicycle . |
| 3 | Then there was the question of the paternity of Mrs Clancy 's last child : Mr Clancy had only just returned from Egypt after a two-year posting , and — as Peony had pointed out — the child was only 14 months old . |
| 4 | In 1987 I worked with a chief inspector who had just returned from university having read for a Bramshill scholarship in what he called ‘ black letter law ’ . |
| 5 | He had returned from a sojourn in New York to aid his oppressed people in the Spanish civil war , in which he lost his life just over one year after Leonard was born . |
| 6 | So strong is the nostalgia , that Mao , Chou En-lai and other founders of ‘ new China ’ often seem to have returned from the dead . |
| 7 | MANILA ( AP ) — Ferdinand Marcos ' followers petitioned the Philippine Supreme Court to allow the late president 's body to be returned from Hawaii , and one of them threatened a huge protest if the tribunal turned them down . |
| 8 | Sibelius and Stenhammar were shown setting the same text ( The Girl returned from meeting her lover ) with Stenhammar providing a sharp , sweet , highly contrasted little folkloric scena complete with sad introductory Schubertian piano tune . |
| 9 | The Israeli Foreign Minister , Moshe Arens , of Likud , who had just returned from America , detailed the proposal of the US Secretary of State , James Baker , for three-way consultations on the composition of the Palestinian delegation . |
| 10 | Despite the gaping hole in the company 's accounts , Ferranti shares returned from their suspension at 73½p to trade at higher than expected levels between 55p and 59p . |
| 11 | Sir : I have just returned from five weeks in Zimbabwe , mostly at village level , and your leading article ( 6 October ) was right . |
| 12 | A sample : We 're coming in to land at Speke My legs are feeling very weak We 've just returned from Barcelona And now I 'm going for a sauna Toshack is of Scottish descent , and there is certainly a bit of McGonagall in there , though not the best bit . |
| 13 | While Jackson , who had just returned from filming a television clip , was mildly bemoaning the pressure it had placed on him to be ‘ incredibly entertaining for one minute ’ , his press officer was engaged in ordering him a beer from room service . |
| 14 | Having recently returned from a ‘ fact-finding mission ’ organised by the ‘ Gulf Centre for Strategic Studies ’ , Mr Marlow attacks in the Gulf Report the ‘ vociferous and unrepresentative minority that effects ( sic ) to believe that our way of life and system of government is the measure by which all other countries should be measured . ’ |
| 15 | PRAGUE — An influential Czechoslovak economist , whose criticisms of the country 's stagnation have achieved cult status , returned from the Soviet Union to find his department dissolved and himself under threat of dismissal , writes Edward Lucas . |
| 16 | The number of voters who found what was happening in politics ‘ very interesting ’ dropped sharply between our pre-campaign week ( when Thatcher was in Moscow and Kinnock newly returned from Washington ) and the campaign itself . |
| 17 | She has slept in her clothes as usual , so she reaches at once for her birch-bark pail ( podoinik ) with its removable lid and spout for pouring out the milk once she has returned from milking her cow , or two cows if she is rich . |
| 18 | Tony had just returned from Iceland , his epic cycle tour , and I was back from Switzerland , buoyed up by time spent working at the Research Station on the Jungfraujoch . |
| 19 | While we have been away the two Scouts have returned from providing DZ cover and are parked outside the hangar . |
| 20 | A third has just returned from an overnight trip to Otterbur in the north-east of England Where it has been helping to move personnel and matériel around the ranges . |
| 21 | They are standing ln for the WRAC Staff Band Who are away on an important engagement in Eastbourne and Who have only recently returned from a tour in BAOR . |
| 22 | He and Diana had just returned from an exhausting tour of America , plugging Britain and British industry at every turn . |
| 23 | Brother Huub de Bij has returned from a short stay in Israel where he was responsible for directing and producing a colour-video highlighting the plight of Christian Arabs , ‘ a minority within a minority ’ . |
| 24 | Jakki had just returned from an idyllic holiday in America ( more of which in a moment ) when she was told to get back on a plane because the Material girl had finally agreed to give an interview on Radio One . |
| 25 | A psychiatrist friend of mine recently returned from an international conference in Athens . |
| 26 | So for oceanographers , used to data returned from ships in commercial shipping lanes , ERS-1 will give a totally global picture of the seas . |
| 27 | Going straight from state ownership to worker ownership is unlikely to change the company 's culture or management style , believes Mr Laurie Brennan , chief executive of New Bridge Consultants , an arm of the law firm , Clifford Chance , set up to promote employee share ownership , and who has just returned from Poland . |
| 28 | When the distinguished writer Pavel Kohout recently returned from exile he went directly to The Slavia . |
| 29 | There were some valid defences , particularly the poor state of most of the pitches and the injuries to Gatting ( having returned from getting his nose repaired he promptly had a thumb broken and played in only the final Test ) , but some of the criticisms were very valid , too . |
| 30 | British ministers returned from trips to other countries with tales ( usually apocryphal ) about how budgets were being trimmed . |