Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] return to [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Ford made the pilgrimage on his own after another officer , who was planning to return to Port-na-Blagh , died last year . |
2 | A second Expeditionary Force was despatched across the Channel to France , but it WAS forced to return to Britain almost immediately because the French government asked Germany for an armistice , on 17th . |
3 | Justin Lekhanya , the former Chair of the Military Council , was placed under house arrest on Aug. 1 following allegations that he was plotting to return to power ; he was prohibited from associating with anyone other than his family and his doctor . |
4 | Choukeir claims he was invited to return to Kim 's flat , but there was a disupte . |
5 | After spending a month in that city , he was persuaded to return to Kidderminster for a while , but he found the ‘ drunken rabble greatly stirred up by their royalist masters ’ . |
6 | Almost immediately it was revealed that he had told a radio interviewer on the morning of the lunch that there would be no such tax on gold-mining companies , and he was forced to return to parliament later on April 11 to admit that his memory of events had been mistaken . |