Example sentences of "returned to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they returned to Elizabeth 's parlour after the service , Jonadab and Annie looked round with satisfaction to see so many of their family gathered together under one roof . |
| 2 | She also took to pastry-making , which she continued to practise at a local confectioner 's when she returned to Epsom in 1854 , though her family thought this to be ‘ ultra modern and not quite nice ’ . |
| 3 | When I returned to Moose Jaw about mid-August I had a long talk with Fred Workman , who told me he had noticed a certain restlessness in me as if I were hoping for a change of scene . |
| 4 | The sixth child was taken captive but returned to friends a few years later . |
| 5 | She returned to bed and went out like a light . |
| 6 | She returned to bed . |
| 7 | Then say that they all returned to bed , and deal out the cards into four piles face downwards , making sure that you keep the order of the piles the same . |
| 8 | How emotionally extravagant the Italians are , she thought fondly as , calming down , he returned to bed and gently made love to her . |
| 9 | By the time we returned to bed , dawn was breaking . |
| 10 | When Dolly and Tom returned to bed and Seb and Nahum went on their way , still singing , Anna suddenly and unexpectedly put her arms about Carrie and hugged her happily . |
| 11 | She found she hardly cared and when Mr Browning , with some evidence of concern for her , said that he feared they must take Ferdinando to Rome almost as soon as they all returned to Florence in October , she simply nodded . |
| 12 | At one point she returned to art school , to do a printmaking course at Regent Street Polytechnic . |
| 13 | He returned to Lebanon in 1958 , shortly after newly elected President Fuad Chahab dropped charges against him for ‘ lack of undisputed evidence . ’ |
| 14 | Soothed by that solitary telephone call , Diana 's ruffled pride was momentarily mollified when she returned to Coleherne Court . |
| 15 | Yet before the leaves had left the trees , I returned to Al Ain . |
| 16 | A substantial contingent of men from his abbey had been among Louis the Pious 's forces in Aquitaine since the previous autumn , and when they returned to Ferrières in July 840 , they brought first-hand news of Gerard 's appointment as commander of Charles 's garrison at Limoges . |
| 17 | For example , Es and Brown ( 1974 ) returned to Bealer et al . |
| 18 | Meanwhile he returned to headquarters and the disagreeable task of informing Davout of the outcome . |
| 19 | He was a passionate tourer , always in motion , descending on his Residents with floods of instructions which resumed their unceasing flow as soon as he returned to headquarters ; and long before Northern Nigeria was brought under effective British occupation , he was composing his Political Memoranda , which in addition to his reflections on the subject of Indirect Rule contained instructions to his officers of a comprehensiveness simply beyond satire . |
| 20 | When he was seventeen he returned to China for several months . |
| 21 | When Liang Heng returned to China from his life in the US , as related in the sequel , little had changed . |
| 22 | Qu and Zhuang returned to China on Aug. 23 and the following day the 11 fishermen and their boat returned to Xiamen , Fujian province . |
| 23 | Li returned to China via Portugal ( Feb. 2-4 ) and Spain ( Feb. 4-6 ) . |
| 24 | Ajeya Singh returned to India and tried to refute the allegations , pointing out numerous flaws in the report , and offered his passport as evidence that he had not been in St Kitts when he was supposed to have signed documents opening the account with the now-defunct bank , the First Trust Corporation . |
| 25 | It was not until 1915 that Gandhi returned to India from South Africa . |
| 26 | They returned to India a fortnight later , but when Norris was shot only hours after he had entertained the players with a convivial cocktail party at his private residence , the violence struck a personal chord . |
| 27 | Sadly , when I returned to India in 1985 , I arrived at Delhi airport in a thick smog . |
| 28 | Wallich returned to India in 1838 as assistant surgeon in the Indian Army and saw considerable active service during the next nineteen years , taking part in the Sutlej and Punjab campaigns of 1842 and 1847 and acting as field surgeon during the Sonthal rebellion of 1855–6 . |
| 29 | He returned to India , following a kidnap attempt , but because there was a fear that Muhammad Ali Pasha , governor of Egypt , might seize Aden , he stormed the town on 19 January 1839 . |
| 30 | In spite of this , he returned to India in 1927 to join the Christa Seva Sangha , an Anglican religious order founded in Poona in 1922 by Father Jack Winslow , inspired by the ideals of St Francis . |