Example sentences of "[pers pn] return to [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was diplomatically ill for a few days and then I returned to my normal work . |
| 2 | I did lose weight but found that the weight returned as soon as I returned to my normal diet . |
| 3 | Puzzled , I returned to my musical driver . |
| 4 | John and I returned to our new home , but it was difficult , at first , to take any pleasure in the place ( the vast skylight , for example ) , Tod 's state being what it was . |
| 5 | What a sad plight I will be in when I return to my poor parents . |
| 6 | Finally , I return to my earlier comments about autonomy , in so far as they apply to students . |
| 7 | Oh , and we 're backdating the warning to cover the stuff you returned to him last week . ’ |
| 8 | On her third day with the unpacking hardly finished , she returned to her new home after taking her three young children to school to find the walls , doors and windows of her house daubed with this kind of graffiti : ’ wogs out ’ , ’ N.F. Rule ’ , ’ Kill Niggers ’ . |
| 9 | Flavia Sherman was still wrestling with the turmoil of emotions that had kept her awake long after she returned to her own hut through the stormy jungle night . |
| 10 | She returned to her old school . |
| 11 | She returned to her gory work , which had become less disturbing than her conversations with von Stein . |
| 12 | Even if it is not possible for you to return to your original duties in the near future , there may still be a part that you can usefully play in the organisation . |
| 13 | You have probably tried a variety of methods of losing weight with temporary success , only to find that the weight goes right back on again as soon as you return to your normal diet . |
| 14 | Then , when you return to your own room , you can look up the relevant pages and study them in the light of the explanations you have had . |
| 15 | Finally she returns to her original distinction between female , feminine and feminist , and suggests how the relation between them might have implications for possible developments in the practice of philosophy . |
| 16 | However , let me return to my original thread . |
| 17 | Let me return to my own experiences to illustrate the relationship between pure and graduated separatism . |
| 18 | But let me return to my main theme . |
| 19 | When we returned to our gentrified cow-flop that afternoon everything seemed tawdry , vulgar and second-rate . |
| 20 | When we returned to our own chamber , I turned drunkenly on Benjamin . |
| 21 | But this is an illusion ; and as the boat sets off again , we return to our normal activity : scurrying from one telescope to another , seeing the sharpness fade in one , waiting for the blur to clear in another . |
| 22 | The unity of the theme is at stake , so that after a period of change it is inevitable that we return to our original discourse . |
| 23 | Rejoice that we return to our holy fortress . |
| 24 | In Czechoslovakia , we now have two resorts , we return to our popular holiday centre just outside the historic city of Brno and also to Roznov near the Beskydy mountains . |
| 25 | However , now that they had family responsibilities and were beginning to put down roots , they returned to their former church-going . |
| 26 | They have sought to damage the interests of people legitimately seeking political asylum , having fled from oppression , who if they returned to their own countries would face further oppression and possibly death . |
| 27 | Anerley School were not at Banstead for long ; they returned to their own school in November 1942 but had to move again , this time to Yorkshire when the flying-bomb blitz started . |
| 28 | Jack found a piece of driftwood , its gnarled form worn totally smooth by the action of the waves , and they decided it would look wonderful in his barn hung on the brickwork chimney-breast , so he carried it for the rest of the morning until they returned to their little camp at lunchtime . |
| 29 | After his graduation as a barrister , they returned to his Jamaican homeland . |
| 30 | Recognising that as movement caused him to return to his normal self , he would soon realise that it was not Elizabeth who had found him , Sarah took one last chance . |