Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] returned to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just returned to Mistress Philippa 's when the bell began to sound . ’ |
| 2 | You know , the decision whether we were gon na go back to work because of these threatening letters was taken by the forty well fifty members of the lodge , so in effect I was sacked by people who had since returned to work , but you know that 's how it should be . |
| 3 | The only clue so far discovered of any value to a possible dating of his return is the fact that , according to Bursali Mehmed Tahir , there exists a copy of one of his most famous works , the written in his own hand , presented to Mehmed II , and dated 878/1473–4 it would not thus be unreasonable to suppose that Molla Husrev wrote the copy especially for Mehmed II , this in turn suggesting that by 878 Molla Husrev had made up his quarrel with the sultan and had perhaps returned to Istanbul . |
| 4 | She tried however to pin her thoughts on other matters and , recalling that Ven had only returned to Mariánské Láznë in order to pick up some papers , she realised that , since they were important enough for him to make the four-hour return journey , he must want them to hand over to someone else . |
| 5 | ‘ Then I came south to Royston but Queen Margaret and her party had already returned to London to collect all their possessions so I followed in hot pursuit . |
| 6 | His gaze had already returned to Jessamy , and she suddenly realised she did n't want to be left alone with Julius . |
| 7 | The rapid returners , where three-quarters struck at the outset , but by mid-November only 10 per cent had not returned to work . |
| 8 | During continuing negotiations with mediating union officials , the government threatened on Aug. 26 to dismiss strikers if they had not returned to work by 8 am on Aug. 28 . |
| 9 | During continuing negotiations with mediating union officials , the government threatened on Aug. 26 to dismiss strikers if they had not returned to work by 8 am on Aug. 28 . |
| 10 | He went sick in September and had not returned to work since . |
| 11 | He went sick in September and had not returned to work since . |
| 12 | I had just returned to Los Angeles from the Aleutians where I had been making a film , and I came across Errol Flynn at a party at David O Selznick 's house . |
| 13 | Julia , who had just returned to work after major brain surgery , was given the three-times-a-week slot Focus on Britain in the revamped News at Ten . |
| 14 | Michael Perrin , a young research worker who had just returned to Winnington from Amsterdam took his place . |
| 15 | Kermit Weeks and Linda Meyers had just returned to Florida from France where Kermit had flown the Week 's Solution ( an aerobatic type which he had designed ) in a competition . |
| 16 | Craig , who joined the Royal Corps of Transport 18 months ago after leaving his job as a postman , had just returned to Northern Ireland after attending a driving course in England . |
| 17 | By this time , Bauthumley had probably returned to Leicester , where the tract had already been sent to London as ‘ very dangerous … a very wide door to atheism and profaneness ’ . |
| 18 | What was more , her darling Corrie had also returned to London . |
| 19 | The government 's inertia was demonstrated both by its reluctance to investigate the murder of Council member Serge Villard in June , and its failure to arrest Williams Regala , a notorious Duvalierist former military officer and minister who had openly returned to Haiti in July despite the existence of an outstanding warrant for his arrest . |
| 20 | He arrived in Gascony in September 1273 , for example , before he had even returned to England as king , to deal with the actions of Gaston VII , vicomte of Béarn , against his authority as duke of Aquitaine . |
| 21 | They had then returned to Weymouth and diverted to the crematorium , where Heather had left the car just long enough to take a photograph . |
| 22 | On Feb. 13 a group of 78 boat people had voluntarily returned to Hanoi , bringing to 1,225 the total number of voluntary returnees since the scheme was introduced in March 1989 . |
| 23 | During the period March 1989-March 1990 , 1,582 boat people had voluntarily returned to Vietnam . |
| 24 | The secretary of the planning committee that examined the project was an MI6 officer called George Blake who had recently returned to England after a long spell of captivity in Korea . |
| 25 | Ironically , my father , mother , younger brother and I had recently returned to England from Singapore , at the end of a four-year posting . |
| 26 | The crew moved about jostling each other ; Corbett gathered that the ship had recently returned to port and the crew were busily cleaning the decks . |
| 27 | The catalyst which provoked that indignation was the appearance in their lives of a wealthy businessman , Peter Shand Kydd who had recently returned to Britain after selling a sheep farm in Australia . |
| 28 | However , by the middle of 1990 there were reports of fresh sentences being passed on various dissidents who had recently returned to Taiwan . |
| 29 | Menchu had recently returned to Guatemala to organize protests against the Columbus anniversary , saying that " there is nothing to celebrate " as " the rights of the Indian people continue to be violated " [ see also p. 39140 ] . |