Example sentences of "he returned to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The religion which he espoused was singularly his own , and when in February 1937 he gave a radio talk on " The Church 's Message to the World " he returned to a subject which was close to the centre of his concerns : the failure of Western civilization , and in particular the signal inability of liberal democracy to sustain moral or intellectual values which might effectively confront the ideologies of fascism or communism . |
| 2 | In 1923 he returned to a hero 's welcome in Dublin , flirted with Communism , but lost control of his union , now in the staid hands of William O'Brien , once his assistant . |
| 3 | It was written after he returned to the US at the end of a stint covering the war in Africa and Italy . |
| 4 | He returned to the North to work on the problems of reinforced concrete for a commercial company . |
| 5 | Then he returned to the surface and was arrested . |
| 6 | Simpson , of Hollyfield , Coulby Newham , was arrested when he returned to the scene shortly afterwards and a policeman smelled petrol on him . |
| 7 | When he returned to the cottage he extinguished all but one of the candles and took it through to the bedroom . |
| 8 | He returned to the Golf and picked up the invoice from the passenger seat . |
| 9 | He returned to the yard . |
| 10 | You may remember that , when Olympic diver Greg Louganis struck his head on the diving board , in a surprisingly short time he returned to the board to win a third Gold Medal . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In 1987 he returned to the UK not only with fluency in Japanese but also with a Japanese wife , Nako . |
| 13 | After a period teaching abroad he returned to the UK and worked in one of the city 's newly opened centres for suspended pupils . |
| 14 | He returned to the UK 13 years later . |
| 15 | He returned to the subject of matrimony . |
| 16 | Once he had fitted in the rudder to keep the dinghy straight against the set of the tide he returned to the subject . |
| 17 | He returned to the south in 1979 where he stayed until his retirement last year . |
| 18 | He returned to the workhouse and was promptly sent to the Three Counties Lunatic Asylum at Arlesey . |
| 19 | A few years later , between 1972 and 1975 , he had a spell with Warwickshire , during which time he returned to the Test team against Australia in 1972–3 — he had played only one other series in the meantime , against England in 1967–8 — and remained a fixture for the rest of the decade . |
| 20 | In 1911 he returned to the Arboretum , helping in the preparation of Plantae Wilsonianae , which was edited in three volumes by Sargent ( 1911–17 ) but partly written by A. Rehder and other specialists . |
| 21 | After writing for The Observer and The Times he returned to The Guardian as cricket and , subsequently , wine correspondent in the late 1960s . |
| 22 | Five minutes later , when he returned to the lawn , she was sitting with her back to the tree and , standing before her , he said , ‘ I do n't know how to thank you for your kindness . |
| 23 | Afterwards , he returned to the desk , where he opened one of the smaller drawers , and from it counted out a number of shiny coins … totalling four guineas in all . |
| 24 | He wondered suddenly what he would find when he returned to the hut . |
| 25 | He returned to the passage , ran lightly up the narrow twisting staircase , checked three bedrooms , the bathroom and the toilet . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ He said that every time he returned to the kidnappers to present an offer worked out after lengthy discussions with the family , claiming that this was the absolute maximum the Milettis could afford to pay , the gang accused him of lying . |
| 28 | One man , whose teenage son was repeatedly sexually assaulted , told Sunday Life that Houston would be ‘ killed ’ if he returned to the Andersontown area . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | With another of his faint , elusive smiles , he returned to the lounge — leaving the door open . |