Example sentences of "his return [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Encouraged by US officials , on his return to Moscow he worked with Gorbachev 's economic adviser Yevgeny Primakov to draft an open letter to the G-7 leaders which was published at the end of May , proposing the co-ordination of a plan of Soviet economic reform with a G-7 programme of economic assistance . |
| 2 | On his return to London he makes the following comment on the period 8 to 14 November , presumably spent with Helen Noble : ‘ The holiest and best of pleasures . |
| 3 | On his return to London he made his living as a novelist and freelance journalist ; between 1886 and 1889 he published ten novels . |
| 4 | My Japanese friends wonder at my passion , because he is not very well known and not very successful , though when he visited Paris with his fellow sumotori he was at once called ‘ the Japanese Alain Delon ’ — to my mind , an insult to my hero , but for a while that kind of adulation seemed to give him a little of the confidence he needed , and on his return to Japan he delighted me by winning an unusually high number of contests . |
| 5 | On his return to England he found the cost of engraving his plates far beyond his means and so he learned the art and later produced this beautiful book , which brought in enough income to support his family after his death in 1749 . |
| 6 | On his return to England he had hoped that Maisie and he would be able to marry , but on October 1 he was posted to 36 Squadron at Seletar on Singapore Island — and sadly , the plans for a wedding had to be deferred . |
| 7 | On his return to England he joined Robert Rich , second Earl of Warwick [ q.v. ] , |
| 8 | After his return to England he was articled to H. E. Kendall , and practised as an architect in London , at Victoria Square , Grosvenor Place . |
| 9 | On his return to England he wrote : ‘ It was a journey that ought not to have been made ; it had broken my life in two . ’ |
| 10 | ( Van , 1896 ) On his return to England my father was appointed to the Consular Service and posted to Taranto in southern Italy , where he served for two years . |
| 11 | On his return to France he taught at Lyon and executed many official commissions , including the marble bust of Jerome Bonaparte , King of Westphalia . |
| 12 | On his return to France he was so enthusiastic about them that he even planted a trial field and let the local population steal them so that they could experience this new vegetable for themselves . |
| 13 | On his return to Britain he entered the congregational ministry in the bleak Lancashire mill town of Colne where he was deeply affected by the social and economic conditions which industrial society imposed upon his flock . |
| 14 | For a few years after his return to Edinburgh he prepared anatomical and pathological demonstrations in the Department of Anatomy , but latterly he withdrew from public affairs . |
| 15 | On his return to Europe he missed the wide forum he had experienced in America , and was instrumental in founding two European neuroscience societies , at whose meetings he was constantly receptive to new ideas . |
| 16 | On his return to Berlin he worked to propagate Communism with friends who included Brecht and Kurt Weill . |
| 17 | On his return to Aquitaine he was able to recruit mercenaries on a large scale . |
| 18 | His Williams team-mate , Alain Prost , marked his return to Formula One yesterday after a year 's sabbatical by claiming provisional pole position . |
| 19 | He seems to fear a compromise with the king , which will require his return under conditions which he would now find unacceptable . |
| 20 | On his return from Scotland he had asked the French government to provide him with 18,000 men for a fresh attempt and had then visited Spain to seek help from Ferdinand VI , but , like Louis XV , the Spanish king was non-committal . |
| 21 | After his return from Russia he had married Mary-Anne , daughter of John Neville , a Dublin merchant . |
| 22 | Gertrude Stein , too , wrote in her book on Picasso : ‘ Upon his return from Gosol he became acquainted with Matisse through whom he came to know African sculpture . ’ |
| 23 | Husameddin , apparently basing his statements on no more than reasonable assumptions , states that " a few years alter his return from Egypt he was appointed muderris at the Manastir medrese ; and he at least implies that the appointment resulted from Molla Fenari 's having won the favour of the Grand Vezir Candarli Hayreddin Halil Pasa , who died in 789/1387 . |