Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] return to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political considerations may have made them less inclined to return to China , but it was generally not a major reason for leaving in the first place . |
| 2 | Two years after the onset of symptoms the patient was still unable to return to work . |
| 3 | As she drove away from her parents ' house , she was still reluctant to return to Rose Cottage ; so , delaying the moment of arrival for as long as possible , she decided to return home via Brighton , and to spend the day there , window shopping . |
| 4 | He was genuinely keen to return to St Augustine 's where his sister was now a pupil and both social work and child guidance were keen to see him return to mainstream schooling . |
| 5 | Gould was clearly reluctant to return to Tasmania so soon , when so many novelties awaited him in and beyond the cedar-brushes of the Liverpool Range . |
| 6 | He was a big , bald man who had toed the papist line for the past few years under Mary , and was now willing to return to Anglicanism should that be the wish of his Bishop . |
| 7 | In May , Harvey wrote to say that he and his wife were now fit to return to duty . |
| 8 | Even these returned to work within a few days . |
| 9 | We were then able to return to Phosphorus which maintained progress . |
| 10 | A large proportion of patients are too old to return to work and a large number are not in economic circumstances of their own choosing . |
| 11 | ‘ You realise it 's too late to return to Cairo tonight . ’ |