Example sentences of "[noun prp] return from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This brought one of Neil 's cracks of laughter and the comment , ‘ A wily gent , I see , ’ and then silence took over again , and lasted for a long time , until the front door opened , and Matey returned from the sewing circle at St Jude 's Church Hall , and stared at them , sitting there in the dusk , hunched over the board , rapt . |
| 2 | Josie said when Lucy returned from the pay phone at the end of the corridor . |
| 3 | John Cole returns from the seaside with answers to the questions you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask . |
| 4 | Henry of Colden returned from the Crusade to help Philip , and Richard I , Otto 's main supporter , died on 6 April 1199 . |
| 5 | 1960 : another unpredictable quirk of history , Sartre 's preface to Aden Arabie , and Nizan returned from the grave . |
| 6 | One cold evening , Seb returned from the cottage to Handley Farm along lanes , the banks of which were already glistening with frost . |
| 7 | They were all getting noisy but the cake had to be delayed until Mr Hogan returned from the shop . |
| 8 | Other Rembrandts in the sale include ‘ The Shell ’ ( est. £40–60,000 ; $70–106,000 ) and ‘ Christ returning from the Temple with his Parents ’ ( est. £30–50,000 ; $53–88,000 ) . |
| 9 | WHOOPI Goldberg led a bunch of rock ‘ n ’ roll nuns to displace Batman Returns from the top of the film charts unbelievable , but that 's showbiz ! |
| 10 | It was past four o'clock before Félix returned from the nursing-home . |
| 11 | Every day before and after school he faithfully practised reading and writing and occasionally when Emilia Thorne returned from the library she would pop round , when Tom was out on Fire Duty , and sit with him . |
| 12 | Ranulf returned from the corpse of the second dwarf , some silver in his hands . |
| 13 | From the Micks returning from the bar with rows of slurping porter glasses clasped against their chests we get some hard glances . |
| 14 | Some critics feel that she is either Emma returned from the grave , or a supernatural vision ; though both these interpretations make some sense , I feel that the most obvious possibility is the true one . |
| 15 | Laura returned from the shower . |
| 16 | The populace generally played little part in that agitation , but when Wilkes returned from the exile in 1768 to which he had fled from fear of imprisonment , debt and the fighting of a duel , to fight the Middlesex election , he became the symbol of a much wider agitation . |
| 17 | Michael Pennington returns from the ESC to the RSC , Simon Russell Beale and Lesley Sharp also feature in Ron Daniels 's production . |