Example sentences of "to return [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court room at the Old Bailey was hushed dock went in for the jury to return for their verdict . |
| 2 | The England midfield player , who had surgery on the injury last month , was hoping to return for his Italian club Juventus against Parma on Sunday . |
| 3 | Alan Kernaghan 's absence was certainly felt against Pompey and the skipper is certain to return after his two-match suspension . |
| 4 | BR20Ms returned that night to attack Valetta and Hal Far , but Hurricanes were up on this occasion , preventing half of the attacking force from reaching their targets and forcing them to return with their bombs . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , one is , ’ frowning away from him , to return with her expression adjusted . |
| 6 | Ultimately he hopes to return with his wife and infant son Jamie to Aberdeenshire where his father — who used to captain Cambridge at hockey — runs a small farm . |
| 7 | Gaddis was able to return with his gashed head bandaged and Dent 's replacement , young wing forward John Hall , had a fine game . |
| 8 | A queen who now sought to return from her self-imposed exile ? |
| 9 | His men were beginning to return from their searches . |
| 10 | Donald was soon to return from his Test debut in Barbados but Reev 's condition was worrying . |
| 11 | Checks are being carried out at hospitals , hotels and police stations after designer Roy Dingley , 36 , failed to return from his holiday last weekend . |
| 12 | He had already gone to his new job in Wensleydale , with a promise to return on his first free Sunday . |
| 13 | However , she rejected the offer to return without her husband 's remains , insisting that it was his dying wish to receive " a simple soldier 's burial " in his country of origin . |
| 14 | But two detectives who flew to Texas last month had to return without their prisoner after it was discovered that all the necessary paperwork in the USA had not been completed . |
| 15 | Letter : Time for Dr Higgs to return to her work |
| 16 | It is already apparent to us that she has no emotional link with the child ; she is indeed now only anxious to return to her own work , which she will do in about ten days ' time . ’ |
| 17 | But to return to her letter . |
| 18 | Carmella was still red-eyed , and seemed glad to return to her seat again . |
| 19 | An employer must allow a woman who has complied with the statutory procedures to return to her original job on terms and conditions no less favourable than those which would have applied if she had not been absent . |
| 20 | Mary telephoned the therapist 2 months later because she felt unable to decide whether to return to her ex-husband or to stay with her boyfriend . |
| 21 | Many widows like to stay in the home of a family member for a few days or weeks afterwards , but if she is going to return to her own home at some time , this should not be delayed for too long . |
| 22 | When his vixen wife 's pregnancy turns out to be a phantom one , and he has to return to her bed , he runs away from home , taking refuge in his girlfriend 's apartment . |
| 23 | For laughing and singing at a funeral her husband gave her a reproving tap , and she had to return to her home in the lake . |
| 24 | In between college courses and jobs as an ad executive , Elizabeth always took time out to return to her first love — travelling . |
| 25 | Ellen planned to return to her tiny apartment in the town where she kept her precious books and where , on an old manual typewriter , she wrote what she called her ‘ five-finger exercises ’ , which she would never let anyone read . |
| 26 | She was happy enough , however , to return to her own frame house , built by her husband after their first five bitter years spent living in a sod hut . |
| 27 | ‘ When she left to return to her law practice , he fell apart . |
| 28 | But now she will be able to return to her outspoken , opinionated self . |
| 29 | This would account for Rufus 's readiness to fall in with Anselm 's demand that Matilda should be forced to return to her cloister , which ( as we have seen ) rather surprised Anselm . |
| 30 | But it would have made no difference to his attitude to Matilda : for him — whatever the circumstances in which she had been removed — she was a runaway nun who should be forced to return to her convent . |