Example sentences of "had returned to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , at Great Houghton near Barnsley Sir Edward Rhodes built a chapel c. 1650 in his own grounds and Dissenting forms of worship were used there well into the eighteenth century , but it was reported at an archbishop 's visitation in 1743 that the family had returned to the Anglican fold and ‘ This Chapel is now united to the Church of England ’ . |
| 2 | Within a few decades , forests and animals had returned to the shattered islands which were all that remained of Krakatoa 's outer rim ; and from the waters between them emerged an ominous smoking mound , sometimes growing at a rate of more than three feet a month . |
| 3 | On Sept. 24 a Law on Defence , which President Boris Yeltsin had returned to the Supreme Soviet on Aug. 10 , was accepted with the inclusion of the President 's amendments . |
| 4 | David Lloyd George had returned to the Liberal fold in 1923 and accepted his position as second in the Party to Asquith until he assumed the role of leader in October 1926 . |
| 5 | His restless mind had returned to the unfinished business of Benghazi and the possibility of destroying shipping which he had so far signally failed to achieve . |
| 6 | We do not exercise power over explosions and crackling and snapping of fire like the strangers , we fall back into the waves — as Dulé 's mother did , the young woman I dug up all those years ago , who had been drowned , who had returned to the deep blue . |
| 7 | Her gaze had returned to the circular table , and she was uneasy . |
| 8 | After the service , when everyone had gone to the reception at his father 's house , Duncan had returned to the fresh brown earth mound and prayed for his grandfather 's soul . |
| 9 | I asked , when we had returned to the main road . |
| 10 | Sheikh al Hassan 's mind had returned to the important meeting before him . |