Example sentences of "and [vb past] not return " in BNC.
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| 1 | I left in June 1979 and did not return to live in Britain until last summer , having missed virtually all of the Thatcher era . |
| 2 | The workers were hard-living and hard-drinking men , who left their cottage homes in the valleys on Monday mornings and did not return until Saturday nights , because their journeys to and from work were hard and hazardous , though short . |
| 3 | In the primary levels ( two cycles of three years from age six to eleven ) , numbers enrolled showed a decline in the years after 1975 and did not return to the 1975 level until ten years later . |
| 4 | The first entry in his diary for 1802 is ‘ 19th January — Mr. Ibbetson 's Dance ’ ; and on 12th May of the same year he danced there again , and did not return home till next day . |
| 5 | He had to scratch at Monaco and did not return until Spa , nearly a month later : there , despite a wrist-brace and a lot of pain , Jackie led the whole race until he ran out of fuel , finishing fourth after a pit-stop . |
| 6 | Another left for the USA with his American wife and did not return . |
| 7 | One , Catherine Barton , absconded after supper by climbing over the wall and did not return until the next morning after 7 o'clock . |
| 8 | Some such unfortunates ultimately abandoned the East Indiamen for a place in the pilot service in India , after they had acquired sufficient influence with important passengers to secure such an appointment , while others might take a place as an officer of one of the so-called country ships , which operated only in the East and did not return to Europe . |
| 9 | In January 1931 he left the Shadow Cabinet on the issue and did not return to communion with the official Conservative leadership until after the outbreak of war in 1939 . |
| 10 | I took myself off for long walks along the shore and into the hills every morning and did not return to Les Glycines until noon , when the three of us would drive in Otto 's traction avant to one of his favourite places for seafood . |
| 11 | As soon as the men had taken it away the next morning , she re-entered the house , very cautiously to avoid Troy , but her husband had gone out very early and did not return . |
| 12 | Sometimes they embarked on quests and did not return . |
| 13 | I understand that about seventeen years ago your sister-in-law walked out of her home and did not return . ’ |
| 14 | I had to leave the Chamber to attend a Select Committee and did not return here until halfway through the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun ( Mr. McKelvey ) . |
| 15 | At the time he was abroad on an official visit and did not return to France , settling instead in Uruguay . |
| 16 | Crawford stormed out and did not return for two weeks , and then only to pick up his mail . |
| 17 | He was diagnosed anti-depressants by his doctor but failed to take them and did not return for a check up two weeks later . |
| 18 | Allitt was off-duty and did not return until 3 April when there was ‘ an odd incident ’ , said Mr Goldring . |
| 19 | ‘ Before dinner , and did not return until after Prime this morning when we heard of Sir Ralph 's death . |
| 20 | Anyway , Hamnett , it must have been , walked off in the direction indicated and did n't return . |
| 21 | His last UK hit , Dimples , was in 1964 but his 28-year absence from the charts was not quite enough to beat Eartha Kitt , who disappeared from the charts in 1955 and did n't return until 1983 . |
| 22 | He even stayed up late worrying when we slipped out of our hotel to go dancing and did n't return until 11.30pm . |
| 23 | I was warned by the party and did n't return to the house . " |
| 24 | They listened to her story with interest , but afterwards stopped popping in to see her , and did n't return her calls . |