Example sentences of "[adv] return to england " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hotel stands on the site of the home of General Hugh Mackay ( 1640–92 ) , who joined the English army in 1660 , serving in France and Holland , eventually returning to England with William of Orange , in the Revolution of 1688 . |
| 2 | I had not long returned to England after a visit to my old mission of Cameroon on the West coast of Africa . |
| 3 | In return he was promised his hereditary possessions of Luneburg and Brunswick , but ordered to leave Germany for three years , and so returned to England . |
| 4 | When he finally returned to England in 1952 , an unreconstructed radical from the 1930s , he was appalled to discover that an acquiescent temper of mind , even Christianity itself , had returned to haunt a literary world he had once supposed forever cleared of the religious taint . |
| 5 | He had never seen that happen before , and decided to get it checked when he finally returned to England . |
| 6 | In 1903 he finally returned to England . |
| 7 | After being rescued , Troy had decided to stay on the ship and work as a sailor , but he was not happy with this travelling life , and finally returned to England . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ I will also return to England , and any further attempt to keep me here I shall count as kidnapping . ’ |
| 12 | They later returned to England . |
| 13 | But we must now return to England to consider briefly part of the lively contribution to the developments we are discussing made by Sir Edward Tylor ( 1832–1917 ) . |
| 14 | At first he had suggested it might be fairer to everyone if he were to leave Kentucky and find work elsewhere — perhaps even return to England — but Cora-Beth had succeeded in making him see that there was absolutely no need for him to do so . |
| 15 | He arrived in Gascony in September 1273 , for example , before he had even returned to England as king , to deal with the actions of Gaston VII , vicomte of Béarn , against his authority as duke of Aquitaine . |
| 16 | Well , Corbett shrugged , he would continue in his task and then return to England . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was sufficient for the king 's purpose to avoid excommunication , but Anselm could not yet return to England because ‘ not being willing [ as Eadmer reports ] in any way to violate his obedience to the pope ’ he could have no dealings with the king 's excommunicated ministers . |
| 19 | ‘ In that case , my dear Roger , we learn French well and make friends with Monsieur Vauban because we can never return to England . ’ |
| 20 | The payment made to Olaf Tryggvason in 994 , for example , seems to have been part of a deal in which Olaf agreed to be confirmed ( with Æthelred standing sponsor ) , and promised that he would never return to England . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Ironically , my father , mother , younger brother and I had recently returned to England from Singapore , at the end of a four-year posting . |