Example sentences of "[adv] returned to [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not long returned to England after a visit to my old mission of Cameroon on the West coast of Africa . |
| 2 | After the two pictures for Leone , Van Cleef stayed in Europe to make pale imitations of them and only returned to Hollywood in 1970 for El Condor which unwisely made him a sympathetic character . |
| 3 | While the French police eventually traced the pieces to Osaka , lack of cooperation on the part of the Japanese authorities meant that they were not returned to France until June 1990 , and then only on the condition that they were returned to Japan by December of that year . |
| 4 | This may be because no one likes to admit they have been fooled or because many German records relating to their intelligence operations against Britain were amongst the captured archives not returned to Bonn in 1956 . |
| 5 | Wallich finally returned to England on sick leave in 1857 and retired officially from the Indian Army in 1859 with the rank of surgeon major . |
| 6 | Michael Perrin , a young research worker who had just returned to Winnington from Amsterdam took his place . |
| 7 | His creator James Driscoll has just returned to Britain after signing a £20 million deal to create the 40-acre fun park in Samara , 600 miles east of Moscow — where Digswell has been made a Freeman of the City . |
| 8 | Kermit Weeks and Linda Meyers had just returned to Florida from France where Kermit had flown the Week 's Solution ( an aerobatic type which he had designed ) in a competition . |
| 9 | I have just returned to England after thirteen years of gastronomic bliss in the South of France . |
| 10 | The crew have just returned to England after making twenty one flights into war torn Bosnia . |
| 11 | They even brought with them the distinctive knocker which was later returned to Oxford in the late nineteenth century . |
| 12 | Liddell later returned to China as a teacher and missionary where he was interned by the Japanese at a camp in Weifang . |
| 13 | The government 's inertia was demonstrated both by its reluctance to investigate the murder of Council member Serge Villard in June , and its failure to arrest Williams Regala , a notorious Duvalierist former military officer and minister who had openly returned to Haiti in July despite the existence of an outstanding warrant for his arrest . |
| 14 | On 17 December , al-Megrahi flew to Tripoli for a meeting , followed by Fhimah next day , and both returned to Malta on 20 December with a suitcase for the bomb . |
| 15 | Recently he captained Harlequins on the Saturday , flew to South Africa , was voted Man-of-the-Match playing for the South African Barbarians on the Monday and then returned to England for Quins ' league match against Leicester . |
| 16 | Anselm then returned to Rome with the pope and stayed with him until Easter 1099 , when he took part in another Council . |
| 17 | The father opposed Hitler and spent a year in a Nazi concentration camp in occupied France , then returned to Berlin in 1945 to help build a new Germany . |
| 18 | Educated at Rivington Grammar School , Oldknow was apprenticed to his uncle in Nottingham , and then returned to Anderton in 1781 as his uncle 's partner in rebuilding the Anderton muslin business . |
| 19 | Two of the three British Sea Kings assigned to the operation then returned to Srebrenica with the sole objective of rescuing the Canadians , coming under renewed Serb fire as they did so . |
| 20 | The six-foot-six-inch England forward returned to America after helping the Mohawks gain a place in the play-offs with a victory at Cardiff in their last league game of the season before also being outstanding in the first game of the play offs when Middlesborugh pulled off the shock of the season by winning at second division league winners Oldham . |
| 21 | In 1807 the British again returned to Madeira under the command of General Sir William Carr Beresford , who had already won a great reputation whilst still under forty years of age . |
| 22 | In the latest recorded incident , Haitian security police had detained 150 refugees on Aug. 14 , only minutes after they had been forcibly returned to Port-au-Prince by the US coast guard . |
| 23 | The catalyst which provoked that indignation was the appearance in their lives of a wealthy businessman , Peter Shand Kydd who had recently returned to Britain after selling a sheep farm in Australia . |
| 24 | They claim that opposition to Saddam Hussein 's troops is growing , as Tim Friend reported on Wednesday , one of the resistance fighters has recently returned to London after being wounded . |
| 25 | The secretary of the planning committee that examined the project was an MI6 officer called George Blake who had recently returned to England after a long spell of captivity in Korea . |
| 26 | Ironically , my father , mother , younger brother and I had recently returned to England from Singapore , at the end of a four-year posting . |
| 27 | He has recently returned to Europe after a year 's exile teaching in New Hampshire , and is currently living in Italy . |
| 28 | The move came after Abessolo — recently returned to Gabon from 13 years in exile — declared that he would participate in national politics " within the framework of the government majority " to make use of President Bongo 's " policy of openness and change " [ see p. 37307 ] . |
| 29 | He was subsequently returned to Khartoum for medical treatment and is now believed to be back in Kober prison . |