Example sentences of "he return [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We had been worried because he was the only British boxer who was not sponsored and the lack of cash could have forced him to return to work . |
| 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 | She was eager to talk to Shildon and impatient for him to return from lunch . |
| 4 | I think he broke something because a big white van took him away and he returned with plaster on his arm . |
| 5 | He returned to North America , first lecturing at Oakland University in Rochester Michigan and then from 1980 to 1983 at the University of Alberta in Canada . |
| 6 | He then became kadi of Amasya , then defterdar , then kadi of Damascus in 927–8/1521 , after which " posts diverse of rank " , as Mecdi writes , he returned to teaching , according to Taskopruzade at the Sultan Murad Khan medrese in Bursa , according to Mecdi at the Yildirimhan ( Bayezid I ) medrese in Bursa , and then , according to both , with 70 akce a day at the Sahn , from which he was subsequently removed , dying in retirement with a pension of 80 akce . |
| 7 | In 1794 he returned to mineralogy , studying at the Freiburg Bergakademie under Abraham Gottlob Werner . |
| 8 | Climbing became his passion when he returned to school . |
| 9 | Disappointment came with only one grade 1 pass — in PE — and he returned to school to take three GCE ‘ O ’ levels . |
| 10 | Mrs Elsie Morgan had travelled on the train on her honeymoon in 1920 ; Lady More recalled some of Sir Jasper 's memories ; Colonel Sykes remembered that , as a boy , the engine driver used to allow him to drive the train when he returned to school at the beginning of term ; and Mrs Lucy Hemmings had regularly tested the milk carried by the train for the Creamery . |
| 11 | He returned to portraiture in 1945 , this time working out of the studio in his sitters ' home environment with three portable floods . |
| 12 | In 1950 he returned to Parliament as member for Hampstead till 1966 . |
| 13 | But his attitude was positive as he returned to Obergurgl for the first time in years for our jaunt . |
| 14 | He was immediately given extended leave to undergo psychiatric therapy but refused to cooperate with the medical staff and was retired from Delta at his own request a month after he returned to work . |
| 15 | He returned to work in September but , in the following month , was forced to have most of the remainder of his teeth extracted : he had now entered his sixtieth year , and was suffering some of the inconveniences of age . |
| 16 | Then he fell ill and for several months was unfit for any work : the cost of medicines , the increase in debts , his feebleness when , too early , he returned to work , combined to make him look , a man in the stable-yard had said , ‘ like a living skeletal ’ . |
| 17 | A long illness caused him to relinquish his management role , but he returned to work as scientific adviser until his retirement in 1963 . |
| 18 | Finding the charms of the private sector unexpectedly resistible , he returned to government , and subsequently caught the eye of Sir Edward Youde , the Governor of Hong Kong from 1982-85 . |
| 19 | Alan 's term began again on January 20th , and he returned to university with a guilty sense of relief . |
| 20 | How emotionally extravagant the Italians are , she thought fondly as , calming down , he returned to bed and gently made love to her . |
| 21 | He had success at Formula 5000 and when he returned to Formula One it was with better results that his first attempt . |
| 22 | Five days later he returned to hospital , when the hip injury was discovered . |
| 23 | In 1911 he returned to railway service as personal assistant to ( Sir ) H. Nigel Gresley [ q.v. ] , who had just taken over from Ivatt on the Great Northern railway . |
| 24 | Tixier-Vignancour emerged from this period of enforced reflection with a deep loathing for General de Gaulle and when he returned to politics in 1955 he was one of the architects of the revival of the extreme right , using the popular cause of ‘ Algerie Francaise ’ as a rallying point . |
| 25 | He returned to politics in the mid-1920s , backed Al Smith in 1928 and succeeded him as Governor of New York . |
| 26 | When he returned to Sri Lanka , he returned to safety and , according to the latest reports , he is now in Germany . |
| 27 | He returned to action just over a week ago to show an impressive turn of foot in winning the Prix du Prince d'Orange . |
| 28 | A Sergeant Williams in London followed Tawell from the train around several of the capital 's coffee houses before he returned to Quaker 's lodgings at Cheapside . |
| 29 | Certainly Gladstone 's view of society was less useful in 1880 when he returned to power for a second time , then , as Chamberlain reminded him , social legislation had become a parliamentary issue . |
| 30 | He returned to power in 1958 haunted by the thought that he was ten years too late . |