Example sentences of "[subord] we returned to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people believe that standards in our use of English would rise dramatically if we returned to the formal teaching of grammar which was normal practice in most classrooms before 1960 . |
| 2 | If we returned to the road with our panniers full of food and met the Germans , they would probably stop and search us . |
| 3 | It would be a dim prospect for them if we returned to the policies of the Labour party . |
| 4 | He was never found , though they searched for him on elephants while we returned to the palace . |
| 5 | Our meeting then broke up , Mandeville stalking back into the hall whilst we returned to our chambers . |
| 6 | After we returned to Pinewood Studios there was a knock at my dressing room door one day , and Trevor came in and said , ‘ Come to my dressing room . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Alas , my father died also , soon after we returned to Poplar . |
| 8 | ‘ As far as we are aware there were no fish in distress when we returned to work on the Thursday morning and the canal was refilled with two feet of water . ’ |
| 9 | When we returned to New York after the tour , David and DeFries had a couple of meetings and they were rather funny , too , because I would ask each of them what happened . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've never heard of anyone driving as many as 100 elephants at one time , ’ Douglas-Hamilton told the task force when we returned to Palembang . |
| 11 | When we returned to our gentrified cow-flop that afternoon everything seemed tawdry , vulgar and second-rate . |
| 12 | When we returned to the hotel for dinner a surprise awaited us . |
| 13 | When we returned to Rangoon , you and Margaret went to the Diocesan School where Miss Hardy was headmistress . |
| 14 | ‘ We failed , ’ Steve said to Kees when we returned to our base at Shokumshun . |
| 15 | When we returned to Cambridge from the summer in America , however , we found that the flats were not ready . |
| 16 | This was the situation when we returned to Scotland in the late seventies with Venturous and were called upon by our liaison officer at Aberdeen to patrol round the west coast principally to assist local staff in the control of a large fleet of Eastern Bloc ships which were anchored in the approaches to Ullapool . |
| 17 | When we returned to our own chamber , I turned drunkenly on Benjamin . |
| 18 | ‘ Though , since Prague has reared its head again , perhaps I should explain that , when we returned to our hotel after dinner last night , with my feelings for you seeming to be on an agitated boil , I had to invent having someone to see . ’ |
| 19 | We were ecstatic as we returned to Bira with the good news , but a closer look at the grounded Sinar Surya and the motley bunch with whom we might sail made it clear that our troubles were far from over . |
| 20 | ‘ Are you on any medication at all ? ’ he asked as we returned to the surgery . |