Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] returned to [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | At the time it seemed senselessly cruel , but it often proved justifiable in the end : some girls who married Englishmen or Americans found themselves very unhappy in their new life , and eventually returned to Italy . |
2 | In return he was promised his hereditary possessions of Luneburg and Brunswick , but ordered to leave Germany for three years , and so returned to England . |
3 | After the two pictures for Leone , Van Cleef stayed in Europe to make pale imitations of them and only returned to Hollywood in 1970 for El Condor which unwisely made him a sympathetic character . |
4 | After being rescued , Troy had decided to stay on the ship and work as a sailor , but he was not happy with this travelling life , and finally returned to England . |
5 | Sailing with about 50 men in mid-October , Ormonde had an uneventful passage from Normandy to Torbay , but failed to see any signs of a rising there and thereupon returned to St Malo . |
6 | On 17 December , al-Megrahi flew to Tripoli for a meeting , followed by Fhimah next day , and both returned to Malta on 20 December with a suitcase for the bomb . |
7 | In November 1913 he accompanied his family on their way to England as far as the railhead , which had now reached the Awash river , and then returned to Addis Ababa . |
8 | He spent about 3 months surveying the Carboniferous and Old Red Sandstone rocks there and then returned to London . |
9 | As we approached they flew out , sparred for a brief moment , and then returned to song posts across the dyke-divide . |
10 | Henry took the homage of the barons and knights of La Marche and then returned to Angers to celebrate Christmas . |
11 | He spent a short time in Paris , studying French surgical methods , and then returned to Liverpool and joined his father 's practice in 1858 . |
12 | So he said nothing to them , but went off and wandered about the world for three years , and then returned to King Voukashan . |
13 | Dove , the early American Modernist , met everyone worth meeting in Paris at the beginning of the century through the ministrations of his good friend Alfred Maurer and then returned to New York where , during the 1920s , he lived on a houseboat moored on the Harlem River . |
14 | Recently he captained Harlequins on the Saturday , flew to South Africa , was voted Man-of-the-Match playing for the South African Barbarians on the Monday and then returned to England for Quins ' league match against Leicester . |
15 | Under the contract the fuel will be stored in Dounreay until 1996 and then returned to Germany . |
16 | The chopper went to refuel , came back and buzzed around some more and then returned to Glasgow . |
17 | The officers knocked at the farm door , the farmer was charged , handcuffed and then returned to Wantage . |
18 | Educated at Rivington Grammar School , Oldknow was apprenticed to his uncle in Nottingham , and then returned to Anderton in 1781 as his uncle 's partner in rebuilding the Anderton muslin business . |
19 | The interaction between SENSS teachers and class teachers as they work together with the class and as they exchange information is a great improvement on the situation which pertained in the days when remedial groups were withdrawn and then returned to class with a total absence or communication . |
20 | She taught briefly in schools in Liverpool , Oban , and Eastbourne , and for a longer period in Tunbridge Wells , but eventually returned to Inverness to keep house for her invalid father , whom she outlived by only two years . |
21 | He visited Vientiane ( the capital of Laos ) in the late 1950s , but subsequently returned to Pathet Lao territory until the final stages of Communist victory in 1975 . |
22 | He resigned , on principle , over Eden 's mismanagement of the Suez crisis , but quietly returned to office under Macmillan as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Education ( first Lord Hailsham , and then Geoffrey Lloyd ) . |