Example sentences of "[noun prp] return [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manchester United have been ready to set up a £3m deal for Pearce with former Forest mid-field star Neil Webb returning to the City Ground . |
| 2 | She heard Fernando returning across the patio , jangling car keys in his fingers . |
| 3 | Gamekeeper John Bosher returning to the Blenheim estate wood where 10 years ago he came across a half decomposed body . |
| 4 | At midday , Scott returned to the studio with twenty minutes of film footage , which would be edited to two minutes plus . |
| 5 | This brought one of Neil 's cracks of laughter and the comment , ‘ A wily gent , I see , ’ and then silence took over again , and lasted for a long time , until the front door opened , and Matey returned from the sewing circle at St Jude 's Church Hall , and stared at them , sitting there in the dusk , hunched over the board , rapt . |
| 6 | Donna returned to the book , bending closer to make out the words : |
| 7 | Müncheberg 's Staffel returned in the early evening as escorts to Italian bombers , engaging six Hurricanes over Luqa . |
| 8 | Eventually Delia Sutherland returned to the lobby . |
| 9 | After this brief affair with TV , Kylie returned to the classroom where she knuckled down to the job of passing her exams . |
| 10 | But before Doreen could make a retort Jean returned to the kitchen and , standing at the doorway , she looked from Doreen to Silas . |
| 11 | When Jean returned from the Ladies there was no sign of either of them , for at the end of the dance they had slipped unnoticed out of one of the wide-open fire exits and around the back of the hall where only courting couples went . |
| 12 | Hari returned to the attack , ‘ A few hours of your time , that 's all . ’ |
| 13 | It was not the most enticing of substances , and Marie returned to the surgery , this time to see a male GP . |
| 14 | Polland is now living in Spain and no longer involved in competitive golf while Brennan returned to the amateur ranks shortly after his success . |
| 15 | ( A week later , Ken returned to the pub , but it was empty . |
| 16 | Josie said when Lucy returned from the pay phone at the end of the corridor . |
| 17 | This deceived umpire Steve Dunne into signalling four , until Wright returned with the ball to report the true state of affairs . |
| 18 | One night when his parents were out David returned to the scene ; as expected everything was quiet not even a walker with a dog was passing through , David cautiously approached the old hut , he peered through a crack in the battens before going round to the door which to his surprise was ajar . |
| 19 | Incidentally the pattern was to be repeated thirty years later : when under the Thirty Years Peace ( 446 ) Megara returned to the Peloponnesian League , and Aigina regained some kind of autonomy , Corinthian hostility towards Athens abated , only to revive in the mid-430s when Athens once again began to pressurize Megara , by the ‘ Megarian Decrees ’ , and to infringe the autonomy of Aigina ( Thuc. i.67 ) . |
| 20 | Edward returned to the kitchen , banging the door . |
| 21 | Edward returned to the desk . |
| 22 | She drove home to find Edward returned from the sports day . |
| 23 | When Edward returned from the Mediterranean , there was a letter waiting for him . |
| 24 | Two minutes later Antony returned to the lounge . |
| 25 | In his electoral address of February 1985 Gorbachev returned to the European theme , regretting the loss of impetus that had occurred since the signature of the Helsinki Final Act ten years earlier and expressing the hope that West Europeans would not allow ‘ our common home ’ to be converted into a testing-ground for American doctrines of ‘ limited ’ nuclear war . |
| 26 | Once the research had established the physics of these losses — and provided a great deal of general information or the physics of plasmas — Culham returned to the development of toroidal systems . |
| 27 | Charles summoned Adeane , they had yet another blazing row , and Adeane returned to the more predictable workings of the Bar . |
| 28 | US diplomats persuaded Syria to return to the negotiating table on Sept. 21 , but the talks ended three days later . |
| 29 | In a statement on June 21 Ahmed Jabril 's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command described the US decision as " a historic opportunity for the PLO to conduct a stringent , critical review of its policies " and called on Arafat to return to the policy of armed struggle . |
| 30 | Liverpool v Charlton Athletic It would be typical of the way Charlton 's luck is going at the moment were Barnes and Hansen to return to the Liverpool side after injury . |