Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] returning to [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And he said Mirror publisher Robert Maxwell would have got him his £55,000-a-year job back if the tycoon had not drowned before returning to London . |
| 2 | Having reached this agreement , he allowed the king to take his time , and he did not even insist on returning to England , but renamed at Bec until a settlement had been reached . |
| 3 | WORKERS have good reason to dislike Mondays … but it 's got little to do with returning to work and a lot to do with the air-conditioning , a researcher said yesterday . |
| 4 | Sir Montague returned an open verdict on Mr Garrod , 35 , who was revisiting the country where he had met his wife , Leanne , 30 , and spent seven years teaching before returning to England last Christmas . |
| 5 | Increasingly people are retiring earlier and you know asking about returning to work . |
| 6 | He still shrank from returning to England , but for a reason quite different from his earlier fear of loss of tranquillity : |
| 7 | And , as she walked innocently along a street to collect holiday snaps before returning to Lancashire , she was cut down by a bullet meant for a soldier . |
| 8 | While the sinusoidal responses of the circuits of figures 10.11(a) and ( b ) are represented by equation ( 10.40 ) with , and , respectively , their behaviour is better appreciated by returning to fundamentals . |
| 9 | Bell , who played on the wing for Queen 's in his first season out of school , will be available for Ballymena when the All Ireland League commences before returning to Loughborough University . |
| 10 | Since there was no question of us being able to invest in a cargo ourselves , let alone afford to charter the empty vessel , our only solution lay in returning to Makassar and attempting to persuade our Chinese friends to raise the merchandise themselves and to send us along as its stewards and guardians . |
| 11 | The next section will also be very useful earlier , when you are merely thinking of returning to work . |
| 12 | It 's understood Mr Bryan had been thinking of returning to Painswick this weekend to escape the hoarde of newsmen beseigning him in London … |
| 13 | Thirdly , the defendant complains , the judge failed to deal with the problem which the jury indicated they had on returning to court after an hour 's deliberation . |
| 14 | My father had helped Margaret during the early years , but directly Dickie had been old enough to board at his preparatory school Margaret had insisted on returning to nursing and becoming sole breadwinner . |
| 15 | The final consequence of all this activity is : new churches for which they appoint elders with prayer and fasting before returning to Antioch ( Acts 14:23 ) . |
| 16 | Nicholas Humphrey 's project , to establish a theory of how consciousness evolved , begins by returning to sensation . |