Example sentences of "[noun prp] returned 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 | Henry of Colden returned from the Crusade to help Philip , and Richard I , Otto 's main supporter , died on 6 April 1199 . |
| 4 | 1960 : another unpredictable quirk of history , Sartre 's preface to Aden Arabie , and Nizan returned from the grave . |
| 5 | One cold evening , Seb returned from the cottage to Handley Farm along lanes , the banks of which were already glistening with frost . |
| 6 | They were all getting noisy but the cake had to be delayed until Mr Hogan returned from the shop . |
| 7 | It was past four o'clock before Félix returned from the nursing-home . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ranulf returned from the corpse of the second dwarf , some silver in his hands . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Laura returned from the shower . |
| 12 | 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 . |