Example sentences of "returned [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 { Window x returned successfully to table y }
2 He spent much of his childhood in China but returned home to school at Marlborough .
3 His version of mortalism distinguished between the soul , remaining with the body till the Last Judgement , and the spirit , which God quickened only in the elect and which returned straight to heaven .
4 One of these , the king 's younger son Louis Duke of Anjou , broke his word and returned to France , at which King John , showing a misplaced sense of honour , returned voluntarily to captivity in England and died at the Savoy in April 1364 .
5 All 28 soldiers on the convoy returned safely to Split .
6 Ralph Pottinger boarded her and she was brought clear and returned safely to Challenge .
7 After over 300 days in space the cosmonaut Sergei Krikalyov returned safely to earth from the Mir space station on March 25 , his return having been delayed since December .
8 The US space shuttle Discovery returned safely to Earth on Dec. 9 after a seven-day mission which included the deployment of a top secret US Air Force reconnaissance DOD-1 satellite and unclassified experiments with an Army laser receiver and US Navy camera system .
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