Example sentences of "[pron] returned from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not escape me that a fair hand has already written some account of my early days ; but that account broke off too soon , for I returned from the realms of ice , to which solitudes my soul — if I may be presumed to have one — was attracted . |
| 2 | I confirm that I returned from the Gulf late last night . |
| 3 | High upon life , I returned from the bathroom . |
| 4 | When I returned from the War , I wished I was dead . |
| 5 | The question was : What book begins with the words ? – ‘ I returned from the City about 3 o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life . ’ |
| 6 | Nevertheless , it was a jubilant team which returned from the match venue on the River Sorria in Portugal with the highest ever placing for an Irish team in this event . |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher , who returned from the United States last night , said : ‘ Everything we have done in the last 13 years will be conserved and built on into the future . |
| 8 | Many are soldiers of the cross who returned from the Holy Land to find their places filled . |
| 9 | When she returned from the kitchen he had made himself comfortable on the sofa . |
| 10 | Four years after her husband died she returned from the United States to marry her foster father , Mr Taylor , who was then a widower : |
| 11 | When she returned from the shops , Mum told me to accompany her to the Captain 's to ask if we could have the Mission Hall for the wedding . |
| 12 | She had seen Billy enter the dining rooms in front of her as she returned from the park with Rachel , and the sight of him had sent a little shiver through her body . |
| 13 | The proceedings did not come to the defendant 's notice until after she returned from the United States . |
| 14 | The Doctor shone his torch on to Bernice as she returned from the darkness . |
| 15 | ‘ Nephthys found Nefi 's body early , when she returned from the house of her husband-to-be . |
| 16 | The new Dunbar lifeboat , the Waveney-class Thomas James King , was on station in Torness Harbour to greet Spirit of Scotland when she returned from the Tall Ships Race to Norway ( see back page ) . |
| 17 | Is the Leader of the House aware that , in the past four days , since we returned from the Christmas recess , I have heard more from Conservative Members about Labour party policy than I have heard on the national executive committee in 12 months ? |
| 18 | Individuals and other creatures would be recognised by the sounds they made , or by the echoes they returned from the sounds you made . |
| 19 | Also , on a more mundane level , there was the postponement of any financial debts then owing until such time as they returned from the crusade . |
| 20 | ‘ Take care , ’ said Rufus , and not looking back any more than he had done when they returned from the cemetery , drove off round the town he had got to know so well , over the Stour bridge , into Essex , heading for Halstead and Dunmow and Ongar and London . |
| 21 | She loved the hot stews that Minton produced out of the oven when they returned from the pub . |
| 22 | She was still sitting motionless as a hare when they returned from the concert . |
| 23 | When he returned from the tour of Australia , Worrell was offered the position of Warden at Irvine Hall , part of the University of the West Indies in Kingston . |
| 24 | Ninety minutes later he returned from the gym downstairs and prepared his special fruit juice while the Ansafone told him , among many other things , to get back to Mike . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Two days after he returned from the city , Athelstan rose early and went to examine his small garden . |
| 27 | ‘ That , of course , is why , when he returned from the clinic , he came to live alone at Les Hiboux . |
| 28 | My friend says that George was only gone for five minutes , but when he returned from the toilet he said that he had been captured , flown to Venus and then forced to have sex with several beautiful Venusian lasses , who required his ‘ superior seed for the creation of a cosmic super race ’ . |
| 29 | We know that you quarrelled with your cousin at Brand 's place ; he returned from the encounter with his face severely bruised . |
| 30 | She had her sock neatly in place again , her foot off the stool , by the time he returned from the sink after washing the antiseptic off his hands . |