Example sentences of "to england [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his return to England he had hoped that Maisie and he would be able to marry , but on October 1 he was posted to 36 Squadron at Seletar on Singapore Island — and sadly , the plans for a wedding had to be deferred . |
| 2 | ‘ The day before I was due to go back to England he asked me to marry him . |
| 3 | On his return to England he wrote : ‘ It was a journey that ought not to have been made ; it had broken my life in two . ’ |
| 4 | On returning to England he served as a staff captain in the War Office and then as an assistant secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence , an appointment which was to alter completely the course of his career . |
| 5 | With some people this might be mere bravado , but when Wordsworth was on his way back to England he seems to have lingered in Paris far longer than was necessary , and possibly considered active participation in practical politics ( Prelude 1805 , x , 129 ff ) . |
| 6 | On his return to England he found the cost of engraving his plates far beyond his means and so he learned the art and later produced this beautiful book , which brought in enough income to support his family after his death in 1749 . |
| 7 | On his return to England he joined Robert Rich , second Earl of Warwick [ q.v. ] , |
| 8 | Since I came to England it has got much less . |
| 9 | when I came to England I speak perfect Italian |
| 10 | By the time she returned to England she had logged more than 12,000 miles since she had been launched . |
| 11 | Get your arse back to England she says . |
| 12 | When Elizabeth returned to England she talked of how she planned to go to South Africa to see if her future was there with Mr Cronje . |
| 13 | She then became fascinated by Montessori pre-school education and on returning to England she started a Montessori school in her country home . |