Example sentences of "he returned [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was written after he returned to the US at the end of a stint covering the war in Africa and Italy . |
| 2 | When he returned to the UK he was eventually appointed to the board , but not , as might have been expected , in charge of the refinery side of the business . |
| 3 | In 1987 he returned to the UK not only with fluency in Japanese but also with a Japanese wife , Nako . |
| 4 | After a period teaching abroad he returned to the UK and worked in one of the city 's newly opened centres for suspended pupils . |
| 5 | He returned to the UK 13 years later . |
| 6 | Then he returned to the Vico annotations , transferring the most interesting methodically to his card index , until the clanging bell descended the stairwell , signifying the end of study . |
| 7 | One man , whose teenage son was repeatedly sexually assaulted , told Sunday Life that Houston would be ‘ killed ’ if he returned to the Andersontown area . |
| 8 | But in February he returned to the Rhineland to deal with yet another raid by Louis the German there ( this time the emperor drove his son out so forcefully that he had to seek refuge with the Slavs before making his way back to Bavaria ) . |
| 9 | In August he returned to the Maldives , saying that he was willing to answer questions about the affairs of the STO . |
| 10 | When Section D was absorbed into the newly formed SOE ( Special Operations Executive ) in 1940 , Burgess was not given a job , and he returned to the BBC in 1941 , responsible for propaganda to occupied Europe and liaison with the SIS and SOE . |
| 11 | He had also shown a gift for learning languages , first in India , and when in August 1951 he returned to the BBC , it was to join its monitoring service at Caversham as a report writer . |
| 12 | ‘ I just want to forget it all , ’ Murray reiterated , and in his agitation stuffed both letters together into his trouser pocket , where they remained , forgotten , until a month later when he returned to the London apartment , cramped but in a smart street in Chelsea , which his mother 's divorce settlement had provided . |
| 13 | In 1919 he returned to the London theatre , designing the Ring cycle for Sir Thomas Beecham [ q.v. ] |
| 14 | He returned to the London Journal , however , ten years later . |
| 15 | He stayed the week and was given lots of extra training , but he was still unsafe when he returned to the USA . |
| 16 | When he returned to the States , Mueller lost no time in carrying out Cocello 's instructions to direct the phase-out of UK vehicle operations from Detroit , and to prepare detail plans to centralise European and world planning activities . |
| 17 | He returned to the Mercedes then , his heart becoming heavier as he walked . |
| 18 | He was a friend of Richard Nixon , however , and when Nixon was elected president in 1968 , he returned to the White House as the president 's physician . |
| 19 | He returned to the Commons in 1959 as MP for Grimsby , a seat which he held until his death . |
| 20 | At half past five he returned to the Disraeli Lounge and at ten to eight , his spirits further lightened by his intake of whisky , he entered the bungalow , whistling . |
| 21 | He returned to the Tyne in 1853 to manage a shipyard , leaving the following year to take up a similar post at Robert Hickson 's shipyard in Belfast . |
| 22 | He added that he had been well treated when he returned for the US Open . |
| 23 | Stephen Bunbury was hailed as a hero when he returned from the Gulf . |