Example sentences of "[conj] then return " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 2 | He tells the servants to stay put , and says that he and ‘ the lad ’ will ‘ go yonder and worship ’ , and then return . |
| 3 | You will be given a guided tour and then return via the Lech valley . |
| 4 | His job was to drive some 50–100 sheep around to crop the fairways and rough and then return them back to Hunts . |
| 5 | I think of it with loathing and dread ; have visions of designing the no-need-to-clear-mask and then return to reality . |
| 6 | It is possible to culture the early embryo and then return it to the mother 's uterus where it will develop normally . |
| 7 | Walkers who have visited the caves and potholes already mentioned , and enjoyed doing so , will be sorely tempted to stay on the limestone shelf and search for the dozen or more other similar openings hereabouts and then return to the Hill Inn for refreshment . |
| 8 | Although we would urge a total abandonment of an age limitation , those of us wearied by years of banging heads against , not so much the walls , as the balloons of officialdom ( for , eventually , walls splinter a trifle , whereas balloons bulge inwards and then return to their old shape ) , understand that we must count our blessings in small twopenny-pockets . |
| 9 | They only relinquish this extreme form of isolation for a brief coming together of the sexes during the breeding season and then return to their separate lives once more . |
| 10 | Well , Corbett shrugged , he would continue in his task and then return to England . |
| 11 | The US pilots later allowed an Iraqi search-and-rescue helicopter to fly to the crash site and then return to its base . |
| 12 | Mr and Mrs Gorman at first were relieved that their only child had found such a solid , trustworthy young man and in fact encouraged the relationship , until Marion began to disappear for hours and then return home without saying where she had been . |
| 13 | At first I would go for short walks , lasting perhaps half an hour , and then return to bed sufficiently impressed with my own daring to be able to relax into sleep . |
| 14 | Switch to the logical approach if this is the case and then return , once you 've made an intellectual appeal , to this more direct , emotional one . |
| 15 | The galaxies may continue to recede from each other but , under the influence of the Universe 's own gravity , begin to slow down and then start to come towards each other again — in exactly the same way , and for exactly the same reason , that a ball thrown into the air will slow and then return to the ground . |
| 16 | With the negotiations over , Sugar returned the same afternoon with between eighteen and twenty PoWs , landing at Westcott to disembark its passengers and then return to Waddington . |
| 17 | It should take only 5 minutes to tell parents how to run the intervention for so many weeks and then return to the baseline . |
| 18 | We kept putting food on the ledge for them and they would go out for relatively short flights and then return . |
| 19 | When a dog does start to show signs of becoming difficult about a visit to the surgery , you may want to arrange with your vet simply to walk up to the waiting room , pause here for a few moments and then return home . |
| 20 | She moved away from the mirror and walked slowly to the door , she would eat her supper , make pleasant conversation with her landlady and then return to her room . |
| 21 | The first stage would be to visit the school and then return to discuss the matter again . |
| 22 | In Aquitaine and in India alike the Englishman was , and is , a foreigner , with a home elsewhere : in our other colonies men , with their families , settle and only now and then return ’ . |
| 23 | Now you can leave on any day you like , stay between two and seven nights , or for 14 nights , and then return on the day you choose . |
| 24 | It 's easy to switch between the different sections of the menu by keying in the numbers at the bottom of the page , and , if the Met section has a Terminal Aerodrome Forecast ( TAF ) available , you can access it by a cross-referencing key and then return to the AIS section with a single keystroke . |
| 25 | Instead of pushing on to Normandy to muster an army and then return to Maine in force , he switched direction and went home to die . |
| 26 | He would stay the night , and then return on Thursday evening with whatever correspondence there remained to deal with . |
| 27 | The usual thing was to hire diamonds from the court jeweller for the coronation and then return them . |
| 28 | PHCNs around the country generally undergo a one-year training course ( Clinical Nursing Science , Health Assessment , Treatment and Care ) and then return to their home hospitals where they work in clinics or hospital out-patients departments . |
| 29 | Some have called me selfish — but surely those women who leave their jobs to have babies and then return to work are the selfish ones ? |
| 30 | Remove from the freezer , whisk well until completely smooth again and then return to the freezer until the ice-cream is firm . |