Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] returned to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This type of maze allowed David Olton in Baltimore and John O'Keefe and Lynn Nadel ( both expatriate Americans , then working at University College , London , though Nadel has since returned to the US , to Tucson , Arizona ) to distinguish between working and reference memory cues in learning the task . |
| 2 | The Pistols ' guitarist , currently resident in America , has not returned to the UK for several years . |
| 3 | Cleavage products from the upper part of the footprints from sites 7 and 8 are also visible by 10 minutes , though the central part of this region has not returned to the control pattern even after 30 minutes . |
| 4 | First , the Bank of England has already returned to the gilt market as an issuer and the prospect over the next few years is one of a larger PSBR and gilt issuance . |
| 5 | It is now so overgrown with vines and creepers that it has half returned to the jungle . |
| 6 | Like his protege Derrick May , ‘ Magic ’ Juan Atkins — the man commonly referred to as the ‘ Godfather Of Techno ’ — has recently returned to the spotlight after a couple of low-profile years . |
| 7 | Clerke presumably returned to the Newfoundland fishery , as he is not found in the Armada lists . |
| 8 | Cattell had only returned to the department 's care in February , after another difficult spell with her mother , but her condition had apparently improved significantly . |
| 9 | He was glad that Richard his brother was still with him — that he had not returned to the capital ere the calamitous news had arrived . |
| 10 | On Saturday May 18th she had gone to spend the weekend with an unnamed boy friend in Brighton , but had not returned to the clinic . |
| 11 | One night — I think it was the night before Christmas Eve — we had just returned to the cottage after a hard day next door doing some of the ‘ few finishing-off jobs ’ Nigel had earlier specified . |
| 12 | They had just returned to the courtyard and were about to examine the various outbuildings when they heard the sound of running footsteps . |
| 13 | Van Gelder had just returned to the bridge . |
| 14 | They had just returned to the flat after a long , lazy picnic in the September sunshine , to find Elise out . |
| 15 | Having delivered the injured Bulgarian to safety we had then returned to the ascent , hoping to catch our party . |
| 16 | The laird who sought the politician 's aid had found himself in an embarrassing predicament when a brother had unexpectedly returned to the family estate after many years spent at sea . |
| 17 | Even now , he had never returned to the shopping mall . |
| 18 | ‘ 'The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice , self-contempt , abasement , submissiveness , meekness — ’ she read aloud from the early works of Marx , which she had never returned to the library , property being theft , and knowledge free for everyone . |
| 19 | Although you might not know it , some of modern popular music 's most cherished players have just returned to the States after a dismal British tour . |
| 20 | We half expected them to come back a few days later , but they have never returned to the barn we prepared so painstakingly for them , although they are still sometimes seen in the vicinity . |