Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [modal v] return [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That day I made a vow to myself that I would return to Athens and run better . |
| 2 | Knowing of my discontent , Alec Harvey-Bailey suggested that I should return to Rolls-Royce , perhaps as chief quality engineer , or head of the service department — both good jobs . |
| 3 | ‘ I have a document from the orphanage which says I am responsible for Natasha while she is in England and that she will return to Sarajevo for the school term , or when the war ends . |
| 4 | I want to assure him Crevecoeur is in no danger , but that SHe must return to Club Eleusis . ’ |
| 5 | He also agreed to tell the Stapletons that Holmes and I had gone to London , but that we would return to Devonshire soon . |
| 6 | We are all in agreement that we will return to Lourdes when the opportunity presents itself , and are very grateful to the parishioners of St Bernadette 's Parish , who donated money to pay for us to go . |
| 7 | ‘ Grandstand ’ had moved back to the cricket but Harry Carpenter had promised viewers that they would return to Sandwich for the finale of ‘ this extraordinary golfing drama ’ . |
| 8 | Although references to the presence of black people are available from the Roman period onward , especially in the early sixteenth century , the most famous of the early documented references is the arrival in 1555 of a group of five Africans , brought here by a merchant to be taught English so that they could return to Africa to act as interpreters for British traders . |
| 9 | It was finally agreed that local commanders appeared to be using their discretion in a satisfactory manner as to the means used to persuade Jugoslavs that they should return to Jugoslavia , and that it was unwise to make any further interpretation . " |
| 10 | The significance of this strikingly worded note is that it was written in full knowledge of the methods already being used by " local commanders " to " persuade Jugoslavs that they should return to Jugoslavia " — ie the " deception " whereby they were allowed to believe that they were being taken to Italy . |
| 11 | None of the Labour leaders felt that they should disobey the ruling of Conference that they should return to opposition : and some of them , most notably Morrison , were obviously relishing the prospect of the return to party politics . |
| 12 | Furthermore , encapsulation may only extend to first-generation immigrants who are sustained by the ‘ Myth of return ’ , the belief that they will return to Pakistan eventually . |
| 13 | But the blank horror over Khmer Rouge atrocities between 1975 and 1978 has created a blind spot about its strength in Cambodia , and the growing likelihood that it will return to power , either on its own or with the other Cambodian opposition factions . |
| 14 | That evening Chamberlain telephoned to Baldwin in Aix and told hint that he ought to return to London . |
| 15 | It was agreed that he might return to work from the hospital when he felt better able to cope . |
| 16 | Holmes had told Stapleton that he would return to London , but he had not said that I was going too . |
| 17 | In addition to the reconciliation during 1988 of members of the Forces populaires revolutionnaires tchadiennes , the Forces armees populaires , the Frolinat originel and the Forces armees occidentales , Goukouni Guet of the Forces armees populaires announced on May 1 , 1989 , in Lagos , Nigeria , that he would return to Ndjamena ; and Abdoulgassin Gamar of the Premiere armee volcan announced the dissolution of that group in August 1989 ( see p. 36519 ) . |
| 18 | The Foreign Office had only given him permission to join the Army on the understanding that he would return to Abyssinia when his leave expired . |
| 19 | But what she hoped was that he would return before breakfast so that he would find her here , crouched lonely and exhausted on the top stair , waiting for him , frightened because he had left her alone . |
| 20 | Despite all the entreaties that we could mount , including substantial medical evidence , the Home Office decided — the matter went to ministerial level — that he must return to Turkey . |
| 21 | And that he will return with hell-fire on the appointed day . ’ |