Example sentences of "return [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He departed after announcing that he would return for his answer with a larger squadron the following spring . |
| 2 | A squadron commander would suggest to me that " old so-and-so is getting a bit teased-out and perhaps he should be rested " , or " it might be convenient if he did not return after his next leave " — these leaves were quite frequent , something like six or seven days every six or seven weeks . |
| 3 | ‘ Once they went off they would return with their offspring , ’ she recalls . |
| 4 | Only Lewis and Jarvis will return with their bowling reputations enhanced . |
| 5 | A woman said : ‘ I 'm going back too and then I 'll return with my four children . ’ |
| 6 | I thought you needed breathing space — besides , I 'd already ensured you would return with my advertising campaign — and also I 'd taken one extra precaution . ’ |
| 7 | Win or lose , I guarantee we will not return with our tails between our legs , but with a hell of a lot of dignity and applause from you blokes . |
| 8 | And her husband is not worried ; he says she will return in her own time . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ In his last will and testament , the celebrated philosopher , author of Pythagorean Mysticism and the Ninfanian School , left his entire estate , the noble house at Punta del Giorno , the farms and their sheep folds in the hills at Crotone , Metaponto and Matera , the vineyards that fringe the banks of the Sauro gorge , to none other than himself , when he should return in his next incarnation to take up residence on his territories again . |
| 10 | I will have to point out how different things are now — that the days of working with a grand staff at one 's beck and call will probably never return within our lifetime . |
| 11 | In 1976 a Treble Bell was placed in the church tower in memory of comrades who did not return from their missions . |
| 12 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 13 | She would return from her banishment to the kitchen as Ellwood drove away , imitating his spidery walk , asking : ‘ What did old Stoneface have to say ? ’ |
| 14 | And neither did Tutilo return from his visit to the lady of Longner . |
| 15 | She added with more assurance that Beuno would also soon return from his walk to the waterfall , and then wondered aloud where the Molesworths were , because in a minute they would be late . |
| 16 | Before they left , the counsellor asked Peter if he 'd return on his own to continue counselling . |
| 17 | When the emergency is dealt with the Government 's work will have finished and parties will return to their ordinary positions . |
| 18 | We will return to their examination below . |
| 19 | This irony was only accentuated by the refugees ' initial belief that their exile was to be brief , a few days perhaps , at most a month , after which — in the manner of other civilians who had abandoned their homes in the midst of battle — they would return to their houses and fields to resume the life which had been interrupted by war . |
| 20 | But when David Damiani , Fatima Zamzam and her children , Ghassan Kanafani and his family and around 140,000 other Palestinian refugees fled into Lebanon , the Beirut government took comfort — as did the Palestinians themselves — from the hope that they might soon return to their homes . |
| 21 | Also , if rubber bearings do not return to their original shape after a quake , the building loses some stability , says Wylie . |
| 22 | Meantime , senior officers had gathered to watch from the rear observation and the order went out that all ranks must return to their posts . |
| 23 | At the end of the War many men did not return to their former transport jobs , and women became a regular part of the platform staff . |
| 24 | They must produce evidence that the theoretical and practical knowledge or training to be acquired in the foreign laboratory will be beneficial to their scientific development and must also return to their country of origin upon termination of the fellowship . |
| 25 | It is assumed that all trainees will return to their bureaux and where necessary areas of weakness that emerged during training will be worked at with their in-bureau tutor . |
| 26 | Trainee trainers will then return to their bureaux as in-bureau tutors to assist with the induction of new volunteers or assist with training at an area office . |
| 27 | However , one thing is certain : whatever the reason , they do not all return to their former host . |
| 28 | In the long-run , however , unemployment and real output will return to their ‘ natural ’ levels , so that the full effect of the increase in the money supply will then be on the price level . |
| 29 | Many will return to their families , but some will need new families through ADOPTION . |
| 30 | As they do this , trusting in God 's help , inching forward like a baby taking its first steps , a sense of reality will return to their faith as well as their lives . |