Example sentences of "[verb] returned from [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ROD Jones has returned from Romania with a message for his fellow aid workers : ‘ The situation is desperate . ’
2 By Ottoman reckoning Molla Fenari would have been twenty in Safar 770 , and it is perhaps possible to suppose that he could have returned from Egypt in time to be appointed at the end of the year .
3 Having returned from Rome at the end of 468 , he was suddenly consecrated bishop of Clermont in 470 .
4 In 776/1374–5 , having returned from Egypt after a four-year stay , he visited Constantinople ; and in 779/1377–8 he was appointed as a teacher in Shiraz by Shah Shuja .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Ann Butler had returned from Leeds in answer to Elizabeth 's letter .
8 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 .
9 Minton had returned from Jamaica with several pairs of shoes , made in Manchester for the Jamaican market , and a host of ideas .
10 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 .
11 The king , who had returned from Flanders in February and was present in person , was asked to agree to confirm and observe the charters ; to agree that no taxes should be levied without the assent of parliament , and to appoint a council which would supervise the expenditure of money raised for the war and exercise jurisdiction over ministers .
12 THREE pool players from Wirral have returned from Doncaster with a team bronze medal in the European Championships , writes Ian Hargraves .
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