Example sentences of "could return to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only we could return to the values of the past , many of us dream , how much better life would be ! |
| 2 | If only life could return to the ‘ right believing ’ of the church fathers , many Orthodox sigh . |
| 3 | Gay men , under pressure , could return to the closet and regain all the privileges of being male . |
| 4 | She thought his resignation was ‘ inevitable ’ but believed he could return to the Government later . |
| 5 | When at last he could return to the plans he had left incomplete in 1102 , he seems to have recognized that he had attempted too much . |
| 6 | Both men loved Dartmoor , never happier than when the London season was over and they could return to the remote places which they had shared since childhood . |
| 7 | For if there is the smallest hope of escape … if there is the merest chance that I could return to the world and to Grainne , I would tear this place down stone by stone . |
| 8 | In winter 1980–81 a Western specialist on South Asia , Selig Harrison , suggested that a formula involving the emergence of a provisional government in Afghanistan might win Soviet acceptance if could provide for arrangements under which Moscow could withdraw from that country in a phased fashion over several years and if the new Afghan government could return to the pre-1973 Soviet-tilted brand of neutralism . |
| 9 | Before he could return to the Redoubt , he would have to earn an income deemed acceptable to the Lance master and his treasurer . |
| 10 | Pool midfielder David McCreery is fit after precautionary X-rays for a chest infection and could return to the side . |
| 11 | St Helens prop Kevin Ward is struggling to be fit for Sunday 's Regal Trophy first round tie against Leeds at Knowsley Road because of a neck injury , but New Zealander George Mann could return to the pack after a being out for a month with back trouble . |