Example sentences of "[pron] return to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , when I returned to India in 1985 , I arrived at Delhi airport in a thick smog . |
| 2 | I returned to England after a month , with a very different view of the world and a deep urge to come back here with my family and paint the landscape . |
| 3 | ‘ I returned to England after Holy Week had begun . |
| 4 | ‘ It did n't really sink in what I had done until I returned to school on the Monday morning and saw all the television cameras waiting for me at the gates , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 5 | I returned to school in mid-September firmly persuaded that farming was the essential life of the countryside . |
| 6 | After three colourful years beginning as a nanny and ending as an officer manager/researcher for Newsday , a New York based newspaper , I returned to London with my Russian husband . |
| 7 | But finally , bitter and disappointed with my wasted life , I returned to Thornfield on a frosty winter afternoon . |
| 8 | On the last day of October , I returned to Bristol for my day visit , this time with no fraudulent feeling . |
| 9 | Imagine , said Francis , that I returned to Perugia on the darkest of nights , a night so cold that everything is covered with snow , and the frost in the folds of my habit hits my legs and makes them bleed . |
| 10 | I return to work on the spot with insights into what I am looking at and a clearer sense of intention . |
| 11 | These links were made possible , in the first instance , by a few brave Gaullist agents , most notably a former prefect called Jean Moulin who returned to France in January 1942 with instructions from de Gaulle to promote the unification of resistance movements . |
| 12 | Moses had three sons : Abraham , who returned to London in 1252 or early 1253 but died in 1255 ; Isaac , who converted to Christianity in 1253 after being accused of coin-clipping ; and Eliab ( Jurnet ) , who was also dead by 1255 . |
| 13 | Leighton , who returned to Scotland via Reading and Arsenal , has been languishing in Dundee 's reserves after a loss of form . |
| 14 | Beatrix Potter was holidaying in Gloucester when she learned of a local legend about a tailor called John Pritchard … who returned to work on a Monday morning to find an unfinished coat mysteriously completed over the weekend . |
| 15 | By mid-June these included : 5-7,000 Ethiopian refugees in Yemen , including 1,700 naval personnel ; 3,000 refugees from Assab in Djibouti ; 300,000 people who returned to Sudan from camps near Gambela [ see below ] ; 130,000 Ethiopians in the Sudanese town of Kassala who were reported to be non-Tigreans who had recently left Tigray ; and 30,000 Ethiopians who had crossed into Kenya at Moyale . |
| 16 | The first — from 1952 to 1957 — was so undistinguished that it was difficult for filmgoers to believe that she was the same actress who returned to movies after five years on Broadway . |
| 17 | The champagne was still on ice yesterday morning as the pair , who returned to Britain from their 95-day expedition exhausted but jubilant on Wednesday , kept to their alcohol-free diet . |
| 18 | One problem which has been described to me by nurses and health visitors who returned to practice before the advent of re-entry programmes is the difficulty represented by assumed knowledge . |
| 19 | In its appeal AI also expressed dismay at reports that Iraqi Kurds who returned to Arbil in northern Iraq following a government announcement of an amnesty for Kurds on 5 April were arbitrarily arrested , summarily executed or subjected to forms of cruel , inhuman or degrading treatment . |
| 20 | He joins midfielder Ian Brady , who returned to action in a midweek friendly after a lengthy lay off . |
| 21 | You returned to Vienna via Trieste and your parents ' home in Salzburg ; and then the real dramas began . |
| 22 | Born in 1962 in Canada while her Orcadian parents were living there , she returned to Orkney as a small child and has lived there most of her life . |
| 23 | When she returned to Margate after 10.30 that night she found a letter from Edward , posted before they had met , awaiting her . |
| 24 | She also took to pastry-making , which she continued to practise at a local confectioner 's when she returned to Epsom in 1854 , though her family thought this to be ‘ ultra modern and not quite nice ’ . |
| 25 | She returned to London on the 21st , cutting short her stay in Paris . |
| 26 | When she returned to London in 1787 he wrote a brilliant concert aria , ‘ Ch'io mi scordi di te , ’ with piano obbligato , for her and himself to play . |
| 27 | She returned to England on the death of her Father ; she did not attend the funeral ( in a picturesque little English church ) , but did become his literary editor and published the first and most authoritative biography . |
| 28 | Ill health forced her abroad in 1885 and she returned to England to the Trafalgar Square riots of 1886 . |
| 29 | For health reasons she returned to England in 1883 , but her husband 's appointment in 1886 as Italian and Greek correspondent for The Times drew her back to Italy , where she lived in Rome until 1897 . |
| 30 | Left a widow at the age of twenty-nine , she returned to England in 1876 and settled with her son and two stepdaughters in the developing suburb of Wimbledon . |