Example sentences of "return [pron] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made imprints of the keys in bars of soap before returning them to the sleeping prison officer . |
| 2 | Within this context of greater freedom for all schools , we will end the two-tier system created by Grant Maintained Schools and City Technology Colleges by returning them to the strategic planning framework of the local elected education authority . |
| 3 | First , the practice of grazing calves from May until late July on permanent pasture , then moving these to hay or silage aftermath before returning them to the original grazing in late autumn . |
| 4 | Please indicate your acceptance of the terms of this Agreement by signing the enclosed duplicate copy in the space indicated and returning it to the undersigned at the letterhead address . |
| 5 | In a related development , President Snegur in his address marking the anniversary of the 1989 legislation making Moldovan ( Romanian ) the official language and returning it to the Latin script , regretted the slow implementation of the legislation . |
| 6 | A boat returned me to the little coral landing-strip ; Friendly Islands Airways took me down to Tongatapu ; and within half a day I was settled in a small hotel in Auckland , waiting for the weekly Cathay Pacific jet home . |
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| 8 | The tradesman who put him there knew this , and hoped that by being removed to such unfamiliar and unpleasant surroundings his debtor would soon see the sense of agreeing to do what would immediately return him to the comparative comfort of his own home , namely to surrender , in settlement of his debt , the real estate which the law did not allow the trader to touch . |
| 9 | He returned it to the failed initiate without comment . |
| 10 | Once privatised , BNP is likely to emulate Société Générale , which has shed staff , costs and unprofitable accounts since Mr Balladur , then finance minister , returned it to the private sector in 1987 . |
| 11 | It is a miserable and heart-breaking business to take peasant families who left Vietnam 's poor northern provinces with visions of a new life in America dancing in their heads , who endured dangerous sea voyages , and who believed that Hong Kong 's camps , however dreadful , were a way station to their dream — to take these families and to return them to the red dirt farms and meagre fishing villages from which they came . |
| 12 | It is a miserable and heart-breaking business to take peasant families who left Vietnam 's poor northern provinces with visions of a new life in America dancing in their heads , who endured dangerous sea voyages , and who believed that Hong Kong 's camps , however dreadful , were a way station to their dream — to take these families and to return them to the red dirt farms and meagre fishing villages from which they came . |
| 13 | Do n't get me wrong , I shall be only too pleased to be able to slam you shut and return you to the darkest corner of my mind . ’ |
| 14 | part of her expected to find them laughing at his wild reaction beyond all sense and to return her to the blessed normal but when she looked around only Maggie stood in the room . |
| 15 | You could place the female Guppy in a breeding trap or a separate tank and return her to the main tank after she has given birth . |
| 16 | You could move the more aggressive fish to a separate tank — or even the breeding trap — and return it to the main aquarium a few days later , when it will be unlikely to go on the attack , as it will in effect , be the ‘ new fish ’ . |
| 17 | We are now working on a similar list for 1990 , and accordingly would be grateful if you could complete the enclosed form , and return it to the Scottish Sports Council by Friday 29 September . |
| 18 | I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict . |
| 19 | We are told who sits for what , where , what our majorities are and the swing needed to return us to the real word and gainful occupation . |
| 20 | the sneeze of movement returns it to the same position , |
| 21 | The Quartet picks up the novel where Thru leaves it , dissected and decentred in vitro , and returns it to the social and historical context out of which it arose . |
| 22 | This returns us to the earlier point about the other major forces which contributed to the development of political responses to the riots : namely the media , Parliament , the political parties , and popular ‘ common-sense ’ debate . |
| 23 | By contrast , the electronic mass media of our contemporary society have made all things new , or rather , have returned us to the primordial situation : |