Example sentences of "to return [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To return from conjecture to fact : the nuclear family left Lewis in 1944 when I was five years old . |
| 2 | An interesting example is the Count of Nordland who is the Prince of Marienburg from which the ruling Burgomeisters have forbidden him to return upon pain of death , Marienburg having seceded from the Empire . |
| 3 | The rebels seized the chance to return to Lusignan in force and begin to rebuild it . |
| 4 | Most units were large enough to allow the son to return to work at home , in which case the wife 's role changed again to that of housewife . |
| 5 | In this respect , a famously offensive passage by Rousseau on the education of girls may be seen as , after all , no more than realistic for period and place : recommending that girls be taught to break off games they are enjoying to return to work without complaint , he writes : |
| 6 | Gen. Chaovalit Yongchaiyut , then Army C.-in-C. , ended the crisis on Feb. 2 when he persuaded the dockworkers to return to work in exchange for the government reconsidering the privatization issue . |
| 7 | They have removed the right of women who work in small firms to return to work after childbirth and , by changing the law , they have blocked the right of married women on employment training to claim child-care . |
| 8 | Ironically , it was the Government which he partly blamed for the affair that gave him the chance to return to work after retirement . |
| 9 | The Dalek ship is programmed to return to Kembel in spite of all their efforts to divert it , and it falls to Steven to hand over the fake core to the Daleks once the Doctor and Sara are aboard the TARDIS . |
| 10 | What she could do , Fabia realised by the time she was back at her hotel and in the lounge with a cup of coffee , was to return to England without delay . |
| 11 | In December 1987 Mafart was allowed to return to France in defiance of the agreement because it was alleged he was ill , although the French government refused to allow a New Zealand doctor to examine him . |
| 12 | Digital Equipment Corp now says it does not expect any ‘ significant ’ revenues from its new Alpha-based systems until the 1994 financial year which starts in July : the rather disconcerting message comes from Bradley Allen , director of investor relations , in London yesterday to brief investors about the company 's efforts to return to profitability through restructuring , cost-cutting and changes in technology ; he declined to make projections about fourth quarter earnings . |
| 13 | The rather disconcerting message comes from Bradley Allen , director of investor relations , in London last week to brief investors about the company 's efforts to return to profitability through restructuring , cost-cutting and changes in technology . |
| 14 | Those who are unhappy about calling Unionist Northern Ireland a democracy , or equally unhappy about not calling Britain as a whole a democracy , are compelled to return to questions of meaning and definition . |
| 15 | On March 13 the Greek government denied that there had been any interference in Albania 's internal affairs , and dissociated itself from a recent declaration by the Metropolitan of Konitsa in which the archbishop had urged Greek Albanians to return to Albania in order to vote in the elections . |
| 16 | ‘ We promoted the competition , which was open to all booksellers , by putting coupons in trade and consumer magazines which people had to return to bookshops in order to get an entry form . ’ |
| 17 | If he tried to return to Earth in defiance of his oath he strongly suspected that he might never be allowed to reach the homeworld … |
| 18 | Following the appearance , in the company of 70000 ‘ Britannia ’ at the rescheduled Open Day at Bescot on Sunday August 30 , 71000 is due to return to Crewe in order to work a charter for Northampton Railway Society . |
| 19 | In the 1960s the oil boom made Venezuela the country to emigrate to , and it was a common occurrence for the emigrant who made good to hire a large American car ( Cadillac or similar ) and to return to Madeira by ship with the car . |
| 20 | In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land . |
| 21 | In early 1990 Chatichai had allowed Manoon to return to Thailand from exile and had appointed him to a high-level post within the Defence Ministry . |
| 22 | Aided by nostalgia , I made up my mind , there and then , to return to Nigeria on foot . |