Example sentences of "[adj] return to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With peace , some returned to Pau , to build the villas in the big gardens that give the town its green and spacious air . |
| 2 | By this stage the airlines had been able to restore a basic service by recruiting new pilots , persuading pilots out of retirement and persuading some to return to work on individual contracts . |
| 3 | First , it was not a strike over wages — although a wage claim was later added to the terms on which the Union was prepared to return to work ; it was about the future of the coalmining industry in Great Britain , and in particular was a protest against a plan for extensive pit closures with consequences for both miners ' jobs and the future of their communities . |
| 4 | The union had repeated that workers were prepared to return to work using an agreed formula to resolve a grievance over lay-offs but that a return to work would involve workers pursuing individual contractual rights . |
| 5 | Valenzuela insists he 's willing to return to Chile . |
| 6 | Although at one point Lear is willing to return to Goneril , since she seems to be allowing him fifty knights , Regan only twenty-five , so that ‘ Thy fifty yet doth double five-and-twenty , /And thou art twice her love ’ ( II.iv.260ff. ) — a quantification of love that would be comic were its effects not so awful — Lear becomes enraged by the two of them , and prefers ‘ To wage against the enmity o ’ th' air' than live with them . |
| 7 | He was a big , bald man who had toed the papist line for the past few years under Mary , and was now willing to return to Anglicanism should that be the wish of his Bishop . |
| 8 | A large proportion of patients are too old to return to work and a large number are not in economic circumstances of their own choosing . |
| 9 | At first Bowden was unwilling to go to London , but he changed his mind after an assurance that he would be free to return to Devon to attend to his business affairs when necessary . |
| 10 | Yet , as the British returned to Menorca as holiday-makers and emigrants during the 20th century , cricket returned with them . |
| 11 | HURRICANE IIA Z2505 , looks set to return to Scotland once aviation archaeologists at Duxford have examined the remains for parts that may be useful in any future rebuilds of the rare fighter type . |
| 12 | That cash is likely to return to RTE , says Fred Hayden , chief executive , Association of Advertisers in Ireland . |
| 13 | According to security sources , she is likely to return to London around January 6 , well before her sons are due to return to their boarding school at Ludgrove , Berks . |
| 14 | HENNESSY Gold Cup runner-up Jodami is likely to return to Newbury to contest the £10,000 Mandarin Chase on Saturday . |
| 15 | Neither is likely to return to action for many weeks . |
| 16 | Go left to return to Piazza Verziere , exiting along Via Cavalotti . |
| 17 | These thoughts were so painful that she was glad to return to Ben 's conversation . |
| 18 | She was motoring through Germany , though , when it suddenly dawned on her that she had n't asked Cara that most fundamental of questions — when was she supposed to return to England ? |
| 19 | STRANG IS FIT TO RETURN TO ENGINE ROOM |
| 20 | In May , Harvey wrote to say that he and his wife were now fit to return to duty . |
| 21 | Even these returned to work within a few days . |
| 22 | 4 RETURNING TO WORK |
| 23 | Then say that they all returned to bed , and deal out the cards into four piles face downwards , making sure that you keep the order of the piles the same . |
| 24 | She found she hardly cared and when Mr Browning , with some evidence of concern for her , said that he feared they must take Ferdinando to Rome almost as soon as they all returned to Florence in October , she simply nodded . |
| 25 | Among the men she was seen by was a young man from another rich Alexandrian family and when they all returned to Egypt he somehow succeeded in gaining access to her . |
| 26 | Two years later he joined Simon of Montfort when the latter returned to England and reimposed the Provisions . |
| 27 | In mid-November Henry II returned to Berry for a fruitless conference with Louis VII at Gracay on the subject of their conflicting claims to Auvergne . |
| 28 | Before then , in June 1340 , Lewis of Bavaria deserted him and made peace with Philip ; in June 1341 David II returned to Scotland and renewed border raids ; James van Arteveldt began to alienate his Flemish allies ; and the French were advancing in Gascony . |
| 29 | Charles II returned to England on May 25th. 1660 amidst the general rejoicing of the people . |
| 30 | When Charles II returned to England as king in 1660 , the old compulsory state church was quickly restored and the freedoms of the 1650s soon vanished . |