Example sentences of "returned home " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRESIDENT Corazon Aquino of the Philippines is bracing herself for a legal battle over her decision not to allow the remains of the former president , Ferdinand Marcos , to be returned home from Hawaii for burial . |
| 2 | China had demanded that he be returned home . |
| 3 | At times I feel a wee bit guilty having returned home to Scotland all in one piece , when so many of my friends have died or were badly injured . |
| 4 | I have returned home feeling much better and of course , will be ever so grateful to the Association . |
| 5 | If the approach was to impress the reported carloads of northern scouts , they would have returned home with the memory of short explosive bursts , close support play and dogged determination , but little else . |
| 6 | Some say it is because no boat people have been returned home against their will since December 1989 . |
| 7 | Helen cheerfully returned home , but apprehensive about the effect of this ‘ ghastly suspicion ’ on her hysterical mother . |
| 8 | One evening , shortly after the funeral , and after the supportive grandparents had returned home , Geoff , the father , sat talking to his children about how much he was missing their mother . |
| 9 | At the end of the stud season Winsome returned home . |
| 10 | Those endeavours were proved to be somewhat premature as no real bombing of cities occurred until the following year , and many of the children had returned home only to have to be again evacuated when the bombing did start . |
| 11 | About two months after I had returned home , a letter came from Angela Woodin at Bletchley ; she was someone I had wanted to see but had not had the opportunity : |
| 12 | A few weeks before , he 'd returned home soon after getting to work because he 'd left some important papers behind , and found the house totally silent , all three children and their mother sound asleep at 9.30 in the morning . |
| 13 | When Rough returned home to Glasgow the CID swooped on his house trying to recover a colour television set that had been stolen from the hotel . |
| 14 | To avoid the risk of a disturbance in the middle of town I should leave it until he 's returned home . |
| 15 | The Greens returned home at half-past one in the morning , but were up to welcome the musicians for breakfast on their way further north ; before they left they sang some ‘ excellent glees . ’ |
| 16 | Within four days , all the children had returned home , and the school was closed for two months to enable repairs to be carried out . |
| 17 | In November 1717 Byng and his ships returned home , to counter another , far more threatening , invasion plot now being hatched by a far older enemy of England , Spain . |
| 18 | To her surprise Broom-Parker had phoned shortly after she 'd returned home , pleading with her not to mention his name to the police . |
| 19 | She identified with the emotions of the young men she accompanied , including the mental agonies suffered by many after the conflict had ended and they had returned home . |
| 20 | Day shift came and went , the newly delivered mums returned home , and Mrs Robinson had a girl and ‘ … |
| 21 | After playing several party games , everyone finally returned home . |
| 22 | A braver man may have returned home with his disillusions . |
| 23 | Parents returned home with bundles of Pampers , packets of hamburger meat . |
| 24 | These allegations were never tested , and after a month the children were returned home , and the mother resumed the care of her large family . |
| 25 | They pointed out that local personnel in these fields had no experience in long term caring for such children , and they added that such a conference should be convened without delay , as leaving it until the children were returned home would be too late . |
| 26 | Lizzie had just returned home on Sunday evening and was parking her car when the man pounced . |
| 27 | A FATHER of four young children returned home from work to find his house destroyed by fire . |
| 28 | Howe has returned home after a scare over a chest condition . |
| 29 | Yet later that evening , when they had both returned home and he had enquired about her meeting with Alison and whether she had bought a pram , she had hesitated before admitting she had actually been to a cinema . |
| 30 | When he arrived home his parents had returned home and he was able to tell them what had happened ; their first reaction was one of anger at his disregard of their wishes but they were interested in his story . |