Example sentences of "[noun prp] return to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polland is now living in Spain and no longer involved in competitive golf while Brennan returned to the amateur ranks shortly after his success . |
| 2 | Incidentally the pattern was to be repeated thirty years later : when under the Thirty Years Peace ( 446 ) Megara returned to the Peloponnesian League , and Aigina regained some kind of autonomy , Corinthian hostility towards Athens abated , only to revive in the mid-430s when Athens once again began to pressurize Megara , by the ‘ Megarian Decrees ’ , and to infringe the autonomy of Aigina ( Thuc. i.67 ) . |
| 3 | Corbett returned to a grinning Ranulf , who was holding the heads of the horses . |
| 4 | James Halden returned to a tall , red-brick house in Clerkenwell , a private asylum where he was employed as permanent physician . |
| 5 | In his electoral address of February 1985 Gorbachev returned to the European theme , regretting the loss of impetus that had occurred since the signature of the Helsinki Final Act ten years earlier and expressing the hope that West Europeans would not allow ‘ our common home ’ to be converted into a testing-ground for American doctrines of ‘ limited ’ nuclear war . |
| 6 | Striker Mike Small returns to a 15-man squad after suspension . |
| 7 | She said that until England returned to the Old Faith , her people would never be happy but always divided against themselves , always backbiting and fighting with one another . |
| 8 | Helen returned to the new acquisitions . |
| 9 | After 30 years away , Denis Pitts returned to the Italian island of Elba and found it to be as beautiful as he remembered |
| 10 | Davy returned to the Royal Institution in London on 30 October , 1815 . |
| 11 | Sarah returned to the outer office . |
| 12 | Maggie immediately thought of Bryce returning to the flooded corridor to save here . |
| 13 | John Knox returned to a tumultuous welcome , having been flatteringly described as a reformer who not merely ‘ lopped the branches of the papistry ’ but struck ‘ at the root , to destroy the whole ’ . |
| 14 | Anti-Montanist reaction reinforced the belief that the apostolic canon is closed ; but it did nothing to diminish millenarian hopes which long retained orthodox defenders , though there were also second-century interpreters of the Apocalypse who did not think intended to be literal and earthly the seer 's vision of Christ returning to a rebuilt Jerusalem . |
| 15 | President , since Swan Hunter returned to the private sector in nineteen eighty six , workforce , management , trade unions , have worked together to produce the world 's finest war ships and one of the world 's finest yards . |
| 16 | Then , Boswell and Johnson returned to the New Inn and sat quietly all evening , and ( it being Sunday presumably ) discussed Christ and Christianity . |
| 17 | Herrick returned to the central desk and was busy a moment at the keyboard , then he returned , a thin film of transparent card held delicately between the fingers of his left hand . |
| 18 | Spurs striker Gordon Durie returns to the slimline squad after recovering from injury , but there is no place for Manchester United 's Brian McClair . |
| 19 | Drew returned to the Great Western Hotel , surrounded by crowds of onlookers and journalists . |
| 20 | Pete Jones returns to the front row and Andy Deacon is called back as the other prop |
| 21 | Palmerston returned to the Foreign Office in July 1846 in Russell 's administration and was able to enjoy the effects of the changes he had instigated until December 1851 , when pressure from the Court forced him out of the Foreign Office . |
| 22 | Tony Francis returns to the Central Sports team to present the Sunday programme . |
| 23 | Precisely when and in what circumstances Molla Fenari returned to the Ottoman lands is not entirely clear , though both Ibn Hajar and Taskopruzade assert that he had returned by the time he went on the pilgrimage in 822/1419 . |
| 24 | The need for further study of this confused period is clearly indicated , but the statements of Ibn Hajar ( and al-Makrizi ) and of the earliest chronological list and the document indicating Molla Fenari 's presence in Karaman in Jumada II 819/August 1416 provide at the least a consistent basis for explaining the reason for , and establishing the date of , Molla Fenari 's return ; and it may therefore be tentatively concluded that Molla Fenari returned to the Ottoman lands some time in , or shortly alter , Sha'ban 820/September-October 1417 . |
| 25 | David Jason returns to the small screen this weekend in a new role as Detective Inspector Jack Frost in a series adapted from R D Wingfield 's A TOUCH OF FROST , FROST AT CHRISTMAS and NIGHT FROST ( all Corgi , Pounds 4.99 ) . |
| 26 | Marje returned to the Daily Mirror in 1954 and began her long affair with Mirror lawyer Phillip Levy in the early 1960s . |
| 27 | In 1251 Henry returned to the royal service . |
| 28 | Eliot returned to the Russian Ballet in 1919 , and in 1921 saw their dancing in terms of vegetation rites and primitive ceremonies , but that dancing contained only marginal interest because not linked to the modernity of Stravinsky 's music . |
| 29 | The transfer fell through and Charlie returned to the Scottish Premier League to play for Aberdeen . |