Example sentences of "[was/were] return to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The captain fed us bits of information about decompression and what to do , and after 10 minutes we were told we were returning to Birmingham because of a shattered windscreen on the aircraft . |
| 2 | Even so , by the end of April 20,000 Kurdish refugees a day were returning to havens set up in northern Iraq by Western troops — not without some hesitation , as when Kurdish peshmerga declared the haven at Zakho unsafe because there were still Iraqi police in the town . |
| 3 | Catherine and James Tomlins were returning to Ireland after a surprise visit to their grandparents in Britain . |
| 4 | Escaping to Somerville during the war , she remembered her wonderful last year , when battle-scarred heroes were returning to university . |
| 5 | Some months later a colleague and I were returning to London from a meeting in Brussels . |
| 6 | Haddington Sheriff Court heard that the left-hand drive Land Rover driven by Timothy Taylor collided with a ten-ton lorry on the Edinburgh-Newcastle road near Spott , East Lothian , while their 18-man team were returning to Germany from training in the Highlands with the Royal Marines . |
| 7 | I also must add that as far as the war moved to its close , crews became increasingly better ; the output of the Empire Air Training Scheme gave us crews with more experience ; second and even third tours crews were returning to Operations ; and in the final phase , in daylight , the casualty rate dropped dramatically . |
| 8 | While the SAS were returning to Jalo a battle was raging and the Eighth Army was in retreat back to the Egyptian frontier . |
| 9 | My wireless operator reported that several of our Italy-bound contemporaries had abandoned the sortie and were returning to Jersey . |
| 10 | Mark , 26 , Cindy Kibble 27 , and Debbie Hunter , 26 , were returning to homes in Devon and Cornwall from Germany when their Toyota Corolla went out of control in sleet on the M4 motorway in Berkshire . |
| 11 | If George Orwell were to return to Sheffield today he 'd see the metamorphosis from spacious if spartan semi-detached suburbias to dense tower blocks . |
| 12 | Some of the 490 handlers , members of the Transport and General Workers Union , were to return to work at 7pm last night . |
| 13 | If the investor were to return to sterling at some time in the future , the rate of exchange might be such that the extra interest earned would be completely eroded away . |
| 14 | He told me that if he were to return to Bangladesh he would face certain assassination by the Government , which wishes to keep the situation in Chittagong secret . |
| 15 | Antenor 's were returned to Athens after Alexander 's conquest , and stood beside their successors in Hellenistic and Roman times , but we know that the copies we have are from the second pair because they correspond to sketches on Athenian vases of the fifth century when the others were not available . |
| 16 | However , on Jan. 17 Iran released 53 sick and wounded Iraqi PoWs , 50 of whom were returned to Iraq ( the remaining three seeking political asylum in Iran ) , and on Jan. 18 , 20 sick and wounded Iranian PoWs were returned by Iraq to Iran . |
| 17 | His ashes were returned to England and buried in the churchyard in West Meon , Hampshire . |
| 18 | While the French police eventually traced the pieces to Osaka , lack of cooperation on the part of the Japanese authorities meant that they were not returned to France until June 1990 , and then only on the condition that they were returned to Japan by December of that year . |
| 19 | All the furniture , silver , paintings , and the private jewellery collection stored in Switzerland by his father were returned to France . |
| 20 | Both of the Lees were returned to parliament in the election unopposed . |
| 21 | Some went to London , others were returned to Manchester . |
| 22 | usable questionnaires were returned to IMS by 139 students , giving an 81 per cent response rate ; |
| 23 | During 1942 any remaining Londons were returned to Saro at Cowes for breaking-up . |
| 24 | The reduction was not associated with increased mortality and was reversible if plants were returned to 20°C . |
| 25 | A mean of two percent of patients were returned to theatre across the northern region after T U R P and this ranged from zero to seven point five percent . |
| 26 | The prisoners were returned to Newgate while lawyers deliberated . |
| 27 | This ‘ charter ’ was put in place shortly after the Conservatives were returned to power . |
| 28 | The Conservatives were returned to power for the fourth election in a row with 42 per cent or more of the popular vote . |
| 29 | While he was in opposition , Ted Heath had asked me if I would go to Rhodesia on behalf of the Conservative Party if they were returned to power . |
| 30 | Partly as a consequence , the Tories were returned to power under Margaret Thatcher in 1979 . |