Example sentences of "and then return to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 ?
2 Well , Corbett shrugged , he would continue in his task and then return to England .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 I think of it with loathing and dread ; have visions of designing the no-need-to-clear-mask and then return to reality .
7 At the same time another craft was heard to approach shore and then to return to sea .
8 When Macmillan had first been planning his flight north on 11 May , he had only intended to visit Eighth Army and 13 Corps and then to return to Caserta " early " on 13th .
9 At this point she switches to Creole : " build 'is place , 'im a build 'is business , and then returns to London English to describe her own attitude : " an " it 's the type of guy like that …
10 He makes a secret compact to betray the rearguard of Charlemagne 's army as it passes the Pyrenees , and then returns to Charlemagne 's court and arranges for Roland to lead the rearguard .
11 In November 1913 he accompanied his family on their way to England as far as the railhead , which had now reached the Awash river , and then returned to Addis Ababa .
12 He spent about 3 months surveying the Carboniferous and Old Red Sandstone rocks there and then returned to London .
13 As we approached they flew out , sparred for a brief moment , and then returned to song posts across the dyke-divide .
14 Henry took the homage of the barons and knights of La Marche and then returned to Angers to celebrate Christmas .
15 He spent a short time in Paris , studying French surgical methods , and then returned to Liverpool and joined his father 's practice in 1858 .
16 So he said nothing to them , but went off and wandered about the world for three years , and then returned to King Voukashan .
17 Dove , the early American Modernist , met everyone worth meeting in Paris at the beginning of the century through the ministrations of his good friend Alfred Maurer and then returned to New York where , during the 1920s , he lived on a houseboat moored on the Harlem River .
18 Recently he captained Harlequins on the Saturday , flew to South Africa , was voted Man-of-the-Match playing for the South African Barbarians on the Monday and then returned to England for Quins ' league match against Leicester .
19 Under the contract the fuel will be stored in Dounreay until 1996 and then returned to Germany .
20 The chopper went to refuel , came back and buzzed around some more and then returned to Glasgow .
21 The officers knocked at the farm door , the farmer was charged , handcuffed and then returned to Wantage .
22 Educated at Rivington Grammar School , Oldknow was apprenticed to his uncle in Nottingham , and then returned to Anderton in 1781 as his uncle 's partner in rebuilding the Anderton muslin business .
23 The interaction between SENSS teachers and class teachers as they work together with the class and as they exchange information is a great improvement on the situation which pertained in the days when remedial groups were withdrawn and then returned to class with a total absence or communication .
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