Example sentences of "[adj] he returned [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This he returned to its position beneath the layer of coffee grounds . |
| 2 | On 17 February 1895 Milne 's Tokyo house and observatory were destroyed by fire , and shortly after this he returned to England , settling at Shide Hill House , Isle of Wight . |
| 3 | In 1808 he returned to Wavertree . |
| 4 | At the end of 1684 he returned to England , fully qualified , and was taken on by Dr Thomas Sydenham as an assistant in a busy London practice . |
| 5 | In 1879 he returned to England and began studies at Manchester New College in London . |
| 6 | In 1660 he returned to England with his master , who ensured him several honours from the newly restored Charles II . |
| 7 | In 1874 he returned to England . |
| 8 | Following a visit to London and Paris in 1849 he returned to Aberdeen to establish himself as a portrait miniaturist . |
| 9 | In 1898 he returned to England and secured a militia commission in the Lancashire Fusiliers . |
| 10 | In 1932 he returned to Bubu de Montparnasse , a novel of Parisian low life which underlay passages in his urban poetry . |
| 11 | In 1811 or 1812 he returned to Edinburgh to set up practice , and by the 1820s had become the leading country house architect in Scotland . |
| 12 | At the end of the war Porch resigned from the Colonial Service ; in 1921 he returned to Africa , in search of a fortune . |
| 13 | In 1813 he returned to Aberdeen after a tour of Italy . |
| 14 | In 1650 he returned to London with ‘ a great estate ’ , and in July of that year took his freedom of the Drapers ' Company and the Levant Company . |
| 15 | In 1962 he returned to Rampur and successfully contested the state seat to become a member of the Uttar Pradesh assembly . |
| 16 | In 1873 he returned to England to take up the post of electrician to the Highton Battery Company , and in 1877 set up the first experimental overhead telephone line in England , only two years after the invention of the telephone in the United States by Alexander Graham Bell [ q.v . ] . |
| 17 | In 1950 he returned to Parliament as member for Hampstead till 1966 . |
| 18 | He was commissioned almost at once , and early in 1792 he returned to the Foudroyant as first lieutenant ; in April of the same year he was promoted master and commander , being given the Pigmy of 14 guns ; and in 1790 he was made post . |
| 19 | In 1911 he returned to railway service as personal assistant to ( Sir ) H. Nigel Gresley [ q.v. ] , who had just taken over from Ivatt on the Great Northern railway . |
| 20 | In 1911 he returned to the Arboretum , helping in the preparation of Plantae Wilsonianae , which was edited in three volumes by Sargent ( 1911–17 ) but partly written by A. Rehder and other specialists . |
| 21 | In 1928 he returned to the ‘ Stones of London ’ , emphasizing that even when approaching a church building ( here Westminster Abbey ) as a historical monument of major symbolic value and aesthetic interest , the fact could not be ignored that , poets ' corner or no , ‘ the Abbey was not originally designed primarily as a Pantheon , but as a Church ; and a Church it remains until it is ‘ disaffected ’ . |
| 22 | On the outbreak of World War I he returned to England , but his health prevented him from fighting . |
| 23 | But after Gaveston 's execution in June 1312 he returned to a more comfortable position at the king 's side . |
| 24 | At half past five he returned to the Disraeli Lounge and at ten to eight , his spirits further lightened by his intake of whisky , he entered the bungalow , whistling . |
| 25 | According to Froissart he had to be carried to Limoges on a litter ; his health deteriorated still further over the winter of 1370 , and in January 1371 he returned to England . |
| 26 | When he was seventeen he returned to China for several months . |
| 27 | He lived in Tabriz and Tehran ; in 1843 he returned to Scotland , bringing his completed manuscript with him . |
| 28 | In 1843 he returned to England and took his little daughter back to Jamaica to join the rest of the family . |
| 29 | In 1987 he returned to the UK not only with fluency in Japanese but also with a Japanese wife , Nako . |
| 30 | On his retirement in 1961 he returned to his home at Dunlop , Ayrshire , and devoted himself to analysis and further surveys of megalithic sites ( ‘ stone circles ’ ) from the Orkneys as far south as the well-known Carnac site in Brittany , with over 2,000 stones . |