Example sentences of "[Wh pn] returned to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UN chemical weapons inspectors who returned to Manama , Bahrain , following a week-long mission in Iraq said on Nov. 9 that Iraq had begun the incineration of its mustard gas arsenal at the former chemical weapons production complex at Muthanna , 130 km from Baghdad [ see also p. 39116 ] . |
| 2 | This left the adults without children ( ‘ possibly they had been taken off at the Dutch border ; the SS guards liked to give a lasting impression of their authority ’ ) and a few veterans of earlier Kindertransporte who returned to Liverpool Street — sometimes , like Martha Levy , three or four times a week , on the off chance of spotting friends from home . |
| 3 | A UNHCR official , Larry Hollingworth , who returned to Sarajevo yesterday , said 160 male war wounded remained in Srebrenica but no one was now dying from malnutrition . |
| 4 | These links were made possible , in the first instance , by a few brave Gaullist agents , most notably a former prefect called Jean Moulin who returned to France in January 1942 with instructions from de Gaulle to promote the unification of resistance movements . |
| 5 | Moses had three sons : Abraham , who returned to London in 1252 or early 1253 but died in 1255 ; Isaac , who converted to Christianity in 1253 after being accused of coin-clipping ; and Eliab ( Jurnet ) , who was also dead by 1255 . |
| 6 | On May 9 Albie Sachs , a civil rights lawyer and member of the ANC legal and constitutional affairs committee ( who returned to South Africa on May 4 after 24 years in exile — see also p. 36073 ) , revealed that he had helped to draw up a 1985 code of conduct outlawing torture , but acknowledged that detention camps still existed . |
| 7 | The meeting resulted in the formation of a 12-member " preparatory committee " of business people and church leaders , plus three members each from the government , Inkatha and the ANC , receiving encouragement from Archbishops Desmond Tutu and Trevor Huddleston , the veteran anti-apartheid campaigner who returned to South Africa on June 23 after 35 years . |
| 8 | Leighton , who returned to Scotland via Reading and Arsenal , has been languishing in Dundee 's reserves after a loss of form . |
| 9 | Beatrix Potter was holidaying in Gloucester when she learned of a local legend about a tailor called John Pritchard … who returned to work on a Monday morning to find an unfinished coat mysteriously completed over the weekend . |
| 10 | Our only non-biological scientist was Elizabeth Stewart ( Mrs Fyfe ) who returned to Aberdeen to marry in 1943 and later emigrated to Halifax , Nova Scotia where her husband became Professor of Anatomy . |
| 11 | By mid-June these included : 5-7,000 Ethiopian refugees in Yemen , including 1,700 naval personnel ; 3,000 refugees from Assab in Djibouti ; 300,000 people who returned to Sudan from camps near Gambela [ see below ] ; 130,000 Ethiopians in the Sudanese town of Kassala who were reported to be non-Tigreans who had recently left Tigray ; and 30,000 Ethiopians who had crossed into Kenya at Moyale . |
| 12 | The first — from 1952 to 1957 — was so undistinguished that it was difficult for filmgoers to believe that she was the same actress who returned to movies after five years on Broadway . |
| 13 | The champagne was still on ice yesterday morning as the pair , who returned to Britain from their 95-day expedition exhausted but jubilant on Wednesday , kept to their alcohol-free diet . |
| 14 | One problem which has been described to me by nurses and health visitors who returned to practice before the advent of re-entry programmes is the difficulty represented by assumed knowledge . |
| 15 | In its appeal AI also expressed dismay at reports that Iraqi Kurds who returned to Arbil in northern Iraq following a government announcement of an amnesty for Kurds on 5 April were arbitrarily arrested , summarily executed or subjected to forms of cruel , inhuman or degrading treatment . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought I might have to sell my ticket , ’ added Birch , who returned to action yesterday for the first time in six months . |
| 17 | He joins midfielder Ian Brady , who returned to action in a midweek friendly after a lengthy lay off . |
| 18 | Where the peasantry remained ‘ pre-commercial , ’ as in large parts of Russia and among the emancipated slaves of the Americas who returned to subsistence peasant agriculture , the estate retained this advantage , but without the physical compulsions of serfdom or slavery it now found it more difficult to obtain labour , unless the former slaves or serfs were landless or so short of land as to be obliged to become hired labourers — and unless there was no more attractive labour for them to take . |
| 19 | Cedd , who acted as interpreter at the council , died in this plague ( HE 111 , 23 ) , probably on 26 October 664 , and so did Tuda , appointed bishop of Lindisfarne in succession to Colmań who returned to Iona after Oswiu had given his decision at Whitby in favour of the Catholic Easter ( HE 111 , 27 ) . |