Example sentences of "have returned [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Observers were said to be surprised at the decision to hold elections during the Christmas holiday period , when most Kenyans with jobs in cities would have returned to their rural homes in areas where they had not necessarily registered to vote . |
| 2 | And they 've returned to their favourite in Minehead , Somerset , 126 times . |
| 3 | She knew she was missing something , even if she did not know quite what , but she and her parents had returned to their large room at the base of the Grimsdale 's house . |
| 4 | After they had returned to their tent , 46-year-old Michael White crept in . |
| 5 | The crusaders had returned to their interstellar castle — which flew onward from nowhere to nowhere just as it had done for many millennia , and must continue to do for many millennia more . |
| 6 | Hansom cabs had returned to their mews . |
| 7 | His main findings were that 51 per cent had left employment in the destination area at some stage during the twelve-month period , most of these had returned to their area of origin and that 75 per cent of those who left the destination area had done so within the first ten weeks . |
| 8 | Chuck and Joseph , flushed and tousle-haired from their dip , looked in to bid her goodnight , and after they had returned to their hut she tried to resume her book by the lamp . |
| 9 | The report , ordered by the Chief of the Armed Forces ( ABRI ) , Gen. Try Sutrisno , said that of the 115 people previously reported missing , 31 had returned to their villages by June 28 while 18 graves had been discovered at Hera . |
| 10 | The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) said on July 31 that 1,000,000 Afghan refugees had returned to their homes . |
| 11 | The Lebanese Forces ( LF ) under Samir Geagea had demanded , on June 30 , that voting be delayed until populations displaced by the civil war ( 1975-1990 ) had returned to their former homes . |
| 12 | On the day of the shooting , according to Mrs MacIllarry , her mother , herself and her two children had returned to their car in the car park . |
| 13 | Yesterday Teesside Crown Court was told the armed response came after Sadhana Nazir tipped off the police that her boyfriend Asaf Mansha had returned to their home in Grange Road , Thornaby , with two other men with stolen goods . |
| 14 | The evacuees included 3,000 who had returned to their homes on Monday but had been driven back to the centres by the volcano 's sulphurous stench . |
| 15 | The students on the Corporals ' course have solved most of the command tasks and have returned to their syndicate rooms to be debriefed . |
| 16 | Some of the recent migrants have returned to their home regions as the fighting diminished , but it is unlikely that all will return to the countryside . |
| 17 | Many daughters , and even sons , who are unmarried , or who have returned to their parents ' home after a marriage breakdown , may find themselves , in process of time , caring for their elderly parents . |
| 18 | Ignoring my presence , some of the flies have returned to their unnatural feast . |
| 19 | M. Lheureux plies Emma with a foretaste of false comfort : he tells her consoling stories of lost dogs which have returned to their masters despite great distances ; why , there was even one that made it all the way back to Paris from Constantinople . |
| 20 | The winner will be the first Six in which all the members have had a go at egg rolling and have returned to their places . |
| 21 | Peasants who have returned to their lands in the heart of El Salvador 's war zone are celebrating the first anniversary of a daring experiment . |
| 22 | THE housebuilder Bellway yesterday joined the lengthening queue of UK companies that have returned to their shareholders for fresh equity with a £33.6 million rights issue , writes Richard Shackleton . |