Example sentences of "returned [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The populace generally played little part in that agitation , but when Wilkes returned from the exile in 1768 to which he had fled from fear of imprisonment , debt and the fighting of a duel , to fight the Middlesex election , he became the symbol of a much wider agitation . |
| 2 | Although Eliab suffered serious losses in 1177 in a failed consortium to lend money to the Crown , and was briefly exiled from England during the 1180s , he returned from the Continent in 1186 on promise of a 2,000 mark fine , and resided thereafter in Norwich until his death in 1197 . |
| 3 | He returned to the School in December 1945 and was appointed Head of Department in 1952 on the death of Mr. Paine , with whom he had pioneered oral methods of teaching French back in the 1930s . |
| 4 | He returned to the south in 1979 where he stayed until his retirement last year . |
| 5 | Mr Heath returned to the limelight in the Euro-election in June 1989 . |
| 6 | But when he returned to the ministry in 1913 , after a long spell of service in Rome , a great deal had changed . |
| 7 | He returned to the Survey in 1919 and , with the exception of a period as deputy master , security printing ( 1926–9 ) , he spent the rest of his career with the Survey . |
| 8 | When Richard Baxter returned to the court in June for the sentence , he was fined five hundred Marks and ordered to remain in prison until he paid . |
| 9 | However , GEC returned to the fray in November 1988 , launching a joint bid for Plessey with Siemens of West Germany , which valued Plessey at £1.7 billion . |
| 10 | Searle returned to the attack in 1983 , in a review of Jonathan Culler 's On Deconstruction . |
| 11 | When he returned to the theatre in 1983 for Chaplin , it was an almighty flop . |
| 12 | Jackson was still smarting when he returned to the station in the city centre . |
| 13 | The English philosopher G. E. Moore returned to the problem in a famous paper , A Defence of Common Sense which , in its turn , forms a background for Wittgenstein 's effort to demystify the issue in Über Gewissheit which , along with the Philosophical Investigations and , of course , the Tractatus , are the only texts he ever actually prepared for publication . |
| 14 | Without waiting for a response , he returned to the paper in his hand . |
| 15 | He returned to the practice in 1904 and did not cease until he lost office in 1915 . |
| 16 | France returned to the theme in 1981 , proposing reactivation of WEU as a liaison body . |
| 17 | By the time Crawford returned to the stage in mid-1971 , he had not worked for fourteen months . |
| 18 | But he returned to the side in last week 's UEFA Cup match with Torpedo Moscow and his performance against Brighton finally convinced Fergie that the little winger still has a part to play . |
| 19 | He returned to the house in St-Cloud late one night in 1954 , hollow with exhaustion . |
| 20 | They returned to the house in Normandy and one weekend , just for the excitement of it , camped outside , making a fire on the beach , cooking their own supper , and burning it . |
| 21 | When she returned to the house in late afternoon , Ellie 's determination to put a few pertinent questions to Mrs McMahon and then leave was thwarted — deliberately , probably — by Feargal , who was with his mother in the lounge . |
| 22 | She returned to the office in time to hear Michael drawl , ‘ Well , I 'm impressed . |
| 23 | She returned to the letter in her hand , turning it over in her slender fingers before opening it . |
| 24 | She returned to the hospital in the early hours of Saturday 4 July complaining of increased chest pains . |
| 25 | After limited success with Miss England I in America , he returned to the challenge in 1930 in Miss England II , using two Rolls-Royce racing aero-engines . |