Example sentences of "do [adv] return to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opening the debate , Mr Smith did not return to this theme but dwelt on ‘ the pathways out of poverty ’ proposed in the review , notably the introduction of a statutory minimum wage and the restoration of a link between pensions and average earnings . |
| 2 | The matter was dropped when the US objected to the idea of a joint declaration and , pleased by the generally positive tone of Mr Bush 's presentation , the Soviet team did not return to it . |
| 3 | But Gaily could not bring himself to ask why she did not return to it . |
| 4 | His wife Lavinia , 39 , had asked estate manager Mr Brian Ealey to raise the alarm at 10.20pm when he did not return to the farmhouse . |
| 5 | The result was that his serious physical illness was assumed to be a form of ‘ school phobia ’ and his parents were threatened with a court order if he did not return to school Access to the file , including the head 's letter , would have enabled correction of the factual errors at least and perhaps an accurate diagnosis of his illness to be made . |
| 6 | I did not return to work until was 18 months so I was able to see him cut his first tooth , take his first step and many other monumental firsts . |
| 7 | At the end of the War many men did not return to their former transport jobs , and women became a regular part of the platform staff . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mackay did not return to Scotland after 1885 and there is little evidence that he thought of himself as a Scot , except in a very conventional , stereotypical way . |
| 10 | He did not return to London until early September , leaving his subordinates , especially John Churchill , recently created first Earl of Marlborough , to complete the subjugation of Ireland . |
| 11 | As night fell , and Weaver did not return to the flat he was sharing , Bodie and Doyle ceased surveillance on the eighth floor and drove the short distance to the house where Liz Spalding was standing guard over the Stone family . |
| 12 | The Harpers became worried when their daughters did not return to the family home in Cheltenham and reported them missing 24 hours later . |
| 13 | He did not return to England as the advocate of a new political ideal , but as a man who was himself under a new obligation of obedience . |
| 14 | It is likely that William of Warelwast revealed an even more outrageous decision : if Anselm did not return to England on the king 's terms , the king would seize his lands and revenues . |
| 15 | It was while he was still at Seletar that England declared war on Germany on September 3 , 1939 and he did not return to England until February , 1940 . |
| 16 | McKee suggests that it was important to them that they did not return to a pre-adult state of dependence upon their parents . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Lucy Baldwin did not return to England until 12 October . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The main parties were pleased to have excluded such an authoritarian figure from government and de Gaulle did not return to power for 12 years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In 12 patients ( 20% ) the serum creatinine concentration did not return to below 300 µmol/l ; one of these had a subsequent deterioration in renal function and two years later had started dialysis . |
| 23 | ‘ I think it would please him if he did not return to Kinsai . ’ |
| 24 | The interesting thing is that while Applegarth did not return to his trade , or to the union movement , he retained his political radicalism to the end of his days : for another fifty years . |
| 25 | After Bosworth Brampton did not return to the English court . |
| 26 | If she did not return to the Lodge she might never experience such terror again , but the memory of it would never leave her . |
| 27 | There was little time left before his meeting with Merymose , so he did not return to his house , but took a circuitous route which would bring him to their rendezvous at the moment the sun touched the top of the western cliffs . |
| 28 | When he did not return to his hotel in the evening , Captain Trevor , a local man , bravely organized a search party . |
| 29 | Giles Aplin did not return to Burford from London until a week after the wedding . |
| 30 | At the time he was abroad on an official visit and did not return to France , settling instead in Uruguay . |