Example sentences of "[adv] return to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hotel stands on the site of the home of General Hugh Mackay ( 1640–92 ) , who joined the English army in 1660 , serving in France and Holland , eventually returning to England with William of Orange , in the Revolution of 1688 . |
| 2 | Among the more conspicuous were Yolande Pompey , who challenged unsuccessfully for Archie Moore 's world light-heavyweight title in London in 1956 , and Hogan ‘ Kid ’ Bassey , a Nigerian who moved to Liverpool in 1952 , three years later won the Commonwealth featherweight title and , in 1957 , won the world featherweight title , before eventually returning to Nigeria as national boxing coach . |
| 3 | ‘ Our computerised systems have definitely played a big part in the fact that our guests keep on returning to Hallery House ; the hotel continues to provide the same level of efficient , friendly service ( whether or not we are there in person ourselves ) at all times . |
| 4 | You remember those things : they littered the creeks and bywaters of harbours , slowly returning to nature , back to the trees and minerals that gave them life . |
| 5 | Did you say something about Mr Boulez perhaps returning to work at the opera ? |
| 6 | Since they may only return to earth by replacing one of their number with a living child , mothers warn their off-spring never to follow the lights . |
| 7 | In order to escape payment Beamish fled the country and he only returned to Britain at irregular intervals from then on . |
| 8 | If you are unable to work as a result of sickness or accident for a period of more than 14 consecutive days , then your monthly Home Improvement Loan repayments will be made for you , until you are fit enough to return to work . |
| 9 | If you are unable to work as a result of sickness or accident for any period of more than 14 consecutive days , then the cover will pay your monthly loan repayments for you , until you are fit enough to return to work . |
| 10 | He 'll give the Colonel every chance to prove that he 's fit enough to return to work . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 's up to his doctor to decide if he 'll be fit enough to return to work . |
| 12 | ‘ One of the reasons we constantly return to sex is — I think — that we are always needing to know if this is enough to justify what we go through because of It . |
| 13 | In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land . |
| 14 | If this is the case , it is better for employees to know and understand this before going abroad rather than to go out with high hopes only to return to Britain dispirited . |
| 15 | Come the following night , I was sitting at home with Caroline ( Nigel 's daughter by his first marriage , the wife of the ‘ moving ’ John , who had not long returned to Denmark ) . |
| 16 | I had not long returned to England after a visit to my old mission of Cameroon on the West coast of Africa . |
| 17 | In return he was promised his hereditary possessions of Luneburg and Brunswick , but ordered to leave Germany for three years , and so returned to England . |
| 18 | The queen 's eldest brother , lord Scales , apparently returned to East Anglia , where his own land lay , and Gloucester may have accompanied him , perhaps ( as the Howard letter seems to imply ) with the intention of raising more men . |
| 19 | The queen 's eldest brother , lord Scales , apparently returned to East Anglia , where his own land lay , and Gloucester may have accompanied him , perhaps ( as the Howard letter seems to imply ) with the intention of raising more men . |
| 20 | Assuming Gorbachev can continue with his reforms the KGB will be in the same position as would MI5 were a Labour anti-nuclear government suddenly returned to power . |
| 21 | She tried however to pin her thoughts on other matters and , recalling that Ven had only returned to Mariánské Láznë in order to pick up some papers , she realised that , since they were important enough for him to make the four-hour return journey , he must want them to hand over to someone else . |
| 22 | After the two pictures for Leone , Van Cleef stayed in Europe to make pale imitations of them and only returned to Hollywood in 1970 for El Condor which unwisely made him a sympathetic character . |
| 23 | The money paid by taxpayers over and above government expenditure merely returns to taxpayers again ( albeit differently distributed ) . |
| 24 | The only clue so far discovered of any value to a possible dating of his return is the fact that , according to Bursali Mehmed Tahir , there exists a copy of one of his most famous works , the written in his own hand , presented to Mehmed II , and dated 878/1473–4 it would not thus be unreasonable to suppose that Molla Husrev wrote the copy especially for Mehmed II , this in turn suggesting that by 878 Molla Husrev had made up his quarrel with the sultan and had perhaps returned to Istanbul . |
| 25 | But she was guiltily aware that at least part of his reason for staying on the island so long and not returning to England was his hope of one day furthering their relationship . |
| 26 | Social workers and the courts are facing a problem which has defeated the best efforts of families and professionals ; whatever the wording , few courts will be willing to gamble on children whom they refuse to commit to security not returning to prostitution , burning down a house , or injuring themselves . |
| 27 | He could think of two of his fellow students who might be suitable but they too had degree courses to finish and Adam was beginning to think very seriously of not returning to college . |
| 28 | After the establishment by the Viet Minh of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( DRV ) in the north in 1945 , he was dispatched to the South during the war against the French in the early 1950s , but soon returned to Hanoi and to a place in the Communist Party politburo , Vietnam having meanwhile , in 1954 , been partitioned into two military zones , with DRV forces in the north and French forces in the south . |
| 29 | The Divisional Court , in holding that the magistrate erred in committing the applicant , also referred to the fact that Price had stated before the magistrate that he would not return to Sweden to give evidence at the trial of the applicant if he was extradited to Sweden . |
| 30 | Some such unfortunates ultimately abandoned the East Indiamen for a place in the pilot service in India , after they had acquired sufficient influence with important passengers to secure such an appointment , while others might take a place as an officer of one of the so-called country ships , which operated only in the East and did not return to Europe . |