Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] returned to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just returned to Mistress Philippa 's when the bell began to sound . ’ |
| 2 | I had just returned to Los Angeles from the Aleutians where I had been making a film , and I came across Errol Flynn at a party at David O Selznick 's house . |
| 3 | Ironically , my father , mother , younger brother and I had recently returned to England from Singapore , at the end of a four-year posting . |
| 4 | Hello and Happy New Year I 've just returned to uni after the crimble hols and have just finished shifting through all the e-mail — thank god the Wilko/List abuse thread has finished ! ! ! ! |
| 5 | I have just returned to England after thirteen years of gastronomic bliss in the South of France . |
| 6 | In his first speech Rance acknowledged , ‘ I have not returned to Burma prepared to announce epoch-making changes . ’ |
| 7 | She has since returned to Mexico and we are now pen-pals . |
| 8 | She has now returned to Zaire and the diary is used as an official document during the school year . |
| 9 | Julia , who had just returned to work after major brain surgery , was given the three-times-a-week slot Focus on Britain in the revamped News at Ten . |
| 10 | Michael Perrin , a young research worker who had just returned to Winnington from Amsterdam took his place . |
| 11 | You know , the decision whether we were gon na go back to work because of these threatening letters was taken by the forty well fifty members of the lodge , so in effect I was sacked by people who had since returned to work , but you know that 's how it should be . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | However , by the middle of 1990 there were reports of fresh sentences being passed on various dissidents who had recently returned to Taiwan . |
| 16 | During continuing negotiations with mediating union officials , the government threatened on Aug. 26 to dismiss strikers if they had not returned to work by 8 am on Aug. 28 . |
| 17 | During continuing negotiations with mediating union officials , the government threatened on Aug. 26 to dismiss strikers if they had not returned to work by 8 am on Aug. 28 . |
| 18 | They had then returned to Weymouth and diverted to the crematorium , where Heather had left the car just long enough to take a photograph . |
| 19 | He has now returned to Birmingham , where he is the newspaper 's Assistant Editor . |
| 20 | He has recently returned to Europe after a year 's exile teaching in New Hampshire , and is currently living in Italy . |
| 21 | 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 . |